Peace Concert "Give Peace a Chance" - Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Yuliia Harbovska, Soloist Yvonne Smeulers

The Peace Concert "Give Peace a Chance" is also the closing concert of the anniversary year "180 Years King of Violin" - 180 years of the Violin King August Wilhelmj. The concert is held under the patronage of Wiesbaden's Lord Mayor Gert-Uwe Mende.

The soloist is Dutch violinist Yvonne Smeulers (www.yvonnesmeulers.com), and the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra (www.kyivsymphony.com) is conducted by Ukrainian conductor Yuliia Harbovska. The orchestra lives in exile due to the war and sees itself as an international ambassador of its country.

The programme includes Maksym Berezovsky's Symphony No. 1 in C major, Jean Sibelius' Violin Concerto op. 47 in D minor, and Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 "From the New World".