Anna Sagalova fled Ukraine with her young son a week after the Russian invasion began in 2022
“My favourite time of the day was always late,” recalls Ukrainian musician Anna Sagalova. When she would finish work with her students at the I.P Kotlyarevsky National University of the Arts in Kharkiv, she would sit and play the piano on her own. “There was this total possibility to practise into the middle of the night,” she saysSagalova, who taught at the school for 17 years, fled Ukraine with her young son a week after the Russian invasion began in February, 2022.
Ms. Sagalova's choice to settle in Vancouver is largely owing to the support of friend and fellow musician Eugene Skovorodnykov.When the war started, staff and students scrambled to collect whatever instruments they could for safekeeping, but they couldn’t getThe grand Steinways are still sitting in a room with cracked walls, dripping ceilings and no windows. Moisture, dirt and grime have resulted in snapped strings and warped wood, and rendered the inner mechanisms useless.
“Ptushkin was one of my teachers and friends as well, though he was much older than me. But we were close,” Sagalova says. “I think it’s very important that his music be heard.”
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