Fundraiser Performance to Benefit Doctors United for Ukraine

Doctors United for Ukraine is a non-profit incorporation of Yale medical professionals with Ukrainian roots. Their mission is to deliver precision aid to foster the health and well-being of Ukrainian people in the face of war and its consequences. Their aid is specific since they know what is needed because they are in direct contact with doctors in Kharkiv, Dnipro, Odesa, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, and Lviv hospitals. DU4U can meet the needs quickly because they work with and pay directly to companies/providers in Ukraine and Poland.

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Doctors United for Ukraine

Our Mission: Deliver precision aid to foster the health and wellbeing of Ukrainian people in the face of war and its consequences.

Our Vision: Help rebuild a thriving clinical care and research enterprise in Ukraine, in partnership with its healthcare professionals and academics.

Our Strategy: Fill the gaps left by current non-profit efforts for medical and mental health needs in Ukraine. Succeed in this with Precision Support of Critical Care Providers with medical supplies and skill building and Mental Health Care providers with training and care infrastructure.

DU4U’s aid is specific. We know what is needed because we are in direct contact with doctors in Kharkiv, Dnipro, Odesa, Kyiv, Mykolaiv and Lviv hospitals.

DU4U can meet the needs quickly because we work with and pay directly to companies/providers in Ukraine and Poland. This approach drastically hastens delivery.

MARIKA KUZMA

Marika Kuzma is a musician and actor who has enjoyed collaborations with many artists in venues around the world. As a conductor, she has led concerts at Zellerbach Auditorium in Berkeley California, the Mohylanska Academy in Kyiv, Oscar Peterson Hall in Montreal, Weill Recital Hall/Carnegie Hall in New York, St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, National Cathedral in Washington DC, and most recently with the Cape Symphony. As a chorusmaster, she has prepared choirs for productions of the Mark Morris Dance Group, Montreal Symphony, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and Simon Bolivar Orquesta, working alongside Joana Carneiro, Gustavo Dudamel, Jane Glover, Kent Nagano, Christian Reif, Esa-Pekka Salonen. She has published editions and articles on Eastern European music, has made recordings of various composers' music on the Koch and Naxos labels, and has given talks on choral music around the US and at the Kyiv Conservatory and Moscow Conservatory. She taught and was the director of choral activities at the University of California, Berkeley, for 25 years. As an actor, she appeared as the Sun in a production at La MaMa Theater in New York, at Marin Shakespeare Company, understudied and performed the leading role of Fanny in Watch on the Rhine at Berkeley Rep and in various other theater and short film roles. Marika was born in Hartford, CT and moved back to Connecticut a few years ago. Of Ukrainian descent, she has organized several fund-raiser events in the last year in response to the current devastating war.

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VICTOR MARKIW

Pianist Victor Markiw was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He first began piano lessons with his father, later earning his Bachelor of Music, Master of Fine Arts, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Hartt School of Music, SUNY Purchase, and the University of Connecticut, respectively. He was a recipient of the Eugene and Emily Grant piano scholarship at SUNY Purchase, the Evelyn Bonar Storrs-Hartford Musical Club Scholarship, the University of Connecticut (Storrs) Music Scholarship and the Shevchenko Scientific Society Music Grant to record a solo CD. Mr. Markiw has studied under a number of internationally renowned pianists including Luiz de Moura Castro, Peter Pertis, Paul Rutman, Paul Ostrovsky, Volodymyr Vynnytsky, Vladimir Feltsman, and Neal Larrabee, He has performed in master classes for Garrick Ohlsson, Mykola Suk, and Awadagin Pratt. Mr. Markiw studied theory and history with Richard Bass, Peter Kaminsky, Bruce Bellingham, and Alain Frogley.

Mr. Markiw’s teaching career includes the University of Connecticut (Storrs) and the University of New Haven, where he is a current faculty member. During the summers of 2008-2009, Mr. Markiw co- directed a community outreach arts camp for children at the University of New Haven and was formally the artistic director for the UNH Department of Visual & Performing Arts concert series. In 2010, Mr. Markiw published “The Life and Solo Piano Works of the Ukrainian Composer Myroslav Skoryk” (Edwin Mellen Press), which is available in over 700 top research libraries around the world.

Mr. Markiw, a frequent participant at charitable events, performed for the Children of Chernobyl Relief Fund Benefit Concert and the Victims of the Tsunami fundraiser; in addition, he has performed for Connecticut Hospice and assisted-living communities in the New England region as well as serving as resident pianist for the music therapy program at Griffin Hospital, Derby, Connecticut. Recently, Mr. Markiw has been performing recitals with all proceeds going to Ukraine Aid.

Having performed throughout the United States and abroad, Mr. Markiw continues to be a sought-after recitalist and chamber musician and has collaborated with soprano Jennifer Litwin to produce the 2010 CD, The Litwin- Markiw Duo as well as a solo CD released in February 2013, both available through CDBABY and ITunes (YouTube).

As a full-time music faculty member at the University of New Haven, Mr. Markiw has received the UNH Excellence in Experiential Education Award (2012), and taught a study-abroad program for UNH students in Seville, Spain, and the UNH international campus in Prato, Italy. During the 2013-15 academic years, Dr. Markiw was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Ukraine, where he guest-lectured, performed recitals in Lviv and Kyiv, and taught American Popular Music and Music Theory at the prestigious Lysenko Academy of Music and Ivan Franko National University in Lviv. Mr. Markiw lives in Orange, CT with his wife Marta (who hails from Lviv, Ukraine) and their two children Arcadia 4 and Dorian 2.

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