Diana is a Ukrainian child prodigy and at just nine she is a star of classical music and plays the piano with great skill, technique and passion. Unfortunately, the sound of the piano was drowned out by the unpleasant and out of tune noise of the bombs and Diana had to flee Kharkiv with her mother Kristina, her father Hocha and her two brothers, Danielle and David, to join Aunt Armine who lives in Falconara Marittima.
The commissioner of Ancona, Ida Simonella, who followed Diana in her reunion with her aunt’s family, immediately thought of contacting the mayor of Pesaro, Matteo Ricci, who had dedicated precisely to Kharkiv, which like Pesaro is a Unesco City of Music , the victory in Capital of Culture 2024, in order to find a way to help this talented child to continue studying at the prestigious Rossini conservatory, involving the president Salvatore Giordano.
Everything went well and Diana will be included in a study program with a scholarship at the Rossini Conservatory but there was still a mission to accomplish: to get Diana’s music teacher to Italy, through a special humanitarian corridor. , Yurij Yanko, left in Kharkiv with nothing left.
Diana and her teacher will be able to hug again and play together on April 27 at the Concerto per la Pace – an orchestra for Kharkiv – conceived and promoted by the Olimpia Orchestra with the support of the Municipality of Pesaro and the Pesaro Concerts Agency. Orchestra Olimpia thus responds to the appeal of an international network of artists dedicated to M ° Yurij Yanko, director of the Kharkiv Philarmonic, hosted as director for this great solidarity event.
One thing was still missing: the tuxedo for the conductor Yanko for the concert for Peace and this is where Biella comes into play.
Barbara Greggio, Unesco councilor for the municipality of Biella, says: “My colleague Daniele Vimini contacted me asking me for a dress for the teacher of the little girl who no longer owns a house, destroyed by the ongoing war and therefore, being Biella Unesco City for the he textile economy of excellence, asked me to procure a suit suitable for an orchestra master for this solidarity event. I turned to Filrus – Biella 1962 – and Luciano and Roberta Rossi immediately agreed to donate the dress to the master from Kharkiv and accompany Biella in this solidarity operation. The dress is totally made in Biella with Vitale Barberis Canonico fabric. I am proud to have delivered the dress to my colleague from Pesaro last weekend and I am happy for the efficient cooperation between UNESCO cities, because it is precisely through this network that we were able to give a happy ending to this tragic story. The heart is aching for the images we receive every day but having helped Diana, her family and her teacher, seals the strength of the close bond that unites the UNESCO creative cities giving us hope in solidarity, in the hope that all this can end as soon as possible. soon as possible “.