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Oleksandr Maksymchuk Takes Part in Press-Conference on the Fourth Declaration of Love Show Concert

March 4, 2008, Head of the Board of Directors of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Oleksandr Maksymchuk took part in a press conference dedicated to the Fourth Declaration of Love Show Concert. The event hosted by Ukrinform Agency was also attended by Kyiv Classic Company director Shuvra Chakraborti Sarati, Kraft Foods vice president Yuri Lohush, Eurocar brand manager Marharyta Parkhomenko, head of the Dr. Reddy’s Ukrainian office T.K. Muralidharan, and the project’s author and artistic director, Merited Artiste of Ukraine Herman Makarenko.

Addressing the audience, Mr. Maksymchuk said that the Ukraine 3000 Foundation, being a partner of the Declaration of Love Show Concert for the second time, would present in the National Opera lobby works by contemporary Ukrainian artists: Vira Barynova-Kuleba, Mariya Pryjmachenko, Nina Marchenko, Serhiy Ivanov, Hryhory Sokil. “The themes of the show, - mothers, children, families, - reflects the Ukraine 3000 Foundation’s major priorities,” he said.

Mr. Maksymchuk also thanked the socially responsible business, philanthropists, and artists, doing everything possible to develop and consolidate social responsibility in Ukraine.

The Declaration of Love Show Concert will be performed March 7 and 8 at the National Opera of Ukraine. Its program includes most popular and striking fragments from classical operas and ballets. The concert will feature such ballet stars as Olena Filipyeva, Olha Holytsia, Maksym Motkov, Vadym Burtan, Ihor Bulychov, opera singers Susanna Chakhoyan, Svitlana Hodlevska, Volodymyr Openko, Bohdan Taras, and Dmytro Kuzmin, along with National Opera’s Symphony Orchestra conducted by Herman Makarenko.

The concert was organized by Kyiv Classic Company. The author of the project and chief conductor is conductor with the National Opera of Ukraine, Merited Artiste of Ukraine Herman Makarenko.

The first Declaration of Love Show Concert showed various ways in which men in Italy, Spain, Russia and Ukraine declare their love through musical and theatrical means. The theme of the second concert was the faces of love: happy, tender, dramatic, and comical. The third concert showed love declarations by emperor and soldier, prince and commoner.