‘It is about all of humankind’: Ukrainian violinist Valentina Goncharova on her cosmic call to compose
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Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:47:53 +0300

Born in Kyiv, trained in a Soviet conservatory and inspired in a Mongolian temple, the experimental musician describes the impulse that led to her first original album in 30 yearsOn 7 October 2023, Kyivborn, Tallinnbased violinist and electronic musician Valentina Goncharova woke up in a bad state, she says.
I felt something terrible was happening on our planet I called my sister and brother in Ukraine.
Nothing had happened to them.
But I continued to feel some kind of uncontrollable violence.An inner impulse told me You must urgently return to work.
I turned on the electric violin, put on Tibetan percussion instruments, and began recording, she says.
Then, later that day, she opened the news and found out what had happened in Israel.
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