24/12/2022
Our Benefit Concert for Ukraine with Joshua Bell, the world renown Superstar Soloist at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has raised $350 000 to benefit United24 initiative of the President of Ukraine.
To say the last year was challenging is to say nothing. There is no such scale to adequately measure what's happened to us, to our families to our Orchestra and to Ukraine.
That's why we are extremely grateful to Mrs. Alexa Chopivsky and the Chopivsky Family Foundation for her tremendous help and effort to provide us the opportunity to assist our native country by means of the soft power of music, using the power and skill we are best at.
We are infinitely grateful to Joshua Bell, the dearest and most treasured friend of the New Era Orchestra for his decision to support us and our country and his immense patience and devotion to our project. The Benefit Concert was our first joint performance in the United States, marking a new pinnacle in the long-term creative collaboration between Joshua Bell and New Era Orchestra, led by it's magnificent Conductor, Art director and co-founder Tatiana Kalinichenko.
This triumphant event in front of a full house on the nation’s main stage was a display of the highest-caliber artistry, courage, resilience, love for country and freedom, and mutual U.S.-Ukraine Foundation friendship! The evening left the audience with powerful impressions about Ukrainian artists and culture, and the full house included distinguished guests from government, international financial institutions, academia, journalists, business executives, think tank and policy thought leaders, and Ambassadors and senior representatives from foreign Embassies.
The Benefit Concert for Ukraine was a collective effort; deepest appreciation to the myriad individuals and organizations who contributed to its realization and share in its collective success.
Sincere appreciation to PARTNERS and SPONSORS. You were directly responsible for the Concert’s outstanding financial results; gratitude to you for your generous donations:
Chopivsky Family Foundation
Tom and Wendy Trowbridge
Bank of America
Cargill
Temerty Foundation
Western NIS Enterprise Fund
Brillembourg Ochoa Family Foundation
Elizabeth and David Carmen
Libra Group Social Responsibility
ПриватБанк
The Washington Group Cultural Fund
United Airlines
Amsted Rail
Elsie and Mac Thompson
Hon. Jan Lodal
Ira and Becky Mendelson
Lisa and John Ourisman
Mercedes-Benz
Sharon Easky (Board Chairman, PrivatBank)
The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation
Embassy of Ukraine in the USA / Посольство України в США
Dentons
Міністерство культури та інформаційної політики України
National Cathedral School
The Washington Group Cultural Fund
U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC)
Special gratitude to the following individuals for playing an instrumental role in the realization of this benefit concert:
Oksana Markarova, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United States
Robert Barnett
Laryssa Courtney
Chris Fetzer
Irina Paliashvili
James Richardson
Deborah Rutter
Сhristian Schoenenberger, the Former Ambassador of Switzerland to Ukraine
Oleksandra Holoborodko
