ukraine also has something to give to america and to the level that america is used to and expects solomia ivahiv, a ukrainian violinist, says she has lived and worked in the united states for many years. she also helped the orchestra organize tours exactly 30 years ago. in february 1993, i performed for the first time as a soloist with the lviv symphony orchestra. and i was 12 years old and i never thought that there would be such an opportunity to celebrate lviv symphony orchestra here in the united states, people are now interested in what ukraine is and how ukraine differs from our aggressive neighbor mykhailo sosnovsky , the main soloist of the concert, the flautist performed the main part of the chamber symphony yevgeny stankovich's number three, which opened the concert, mykhailo says that during the tour, he was impressed by the support and help of the americans , in particular, one of the most famous musical instrument stores provided him with an extremely expensive flute for kyria's performance, it costs $40,000. they just gave it to me and told me to do it. i've been playing on it for