Delight as pianist returns to town

Ukraine-born pianist Dinara Klinton admits she just cannot imagine how the conflict in her home country is ever going to be resolved.

“The thing is that it just should not be happening,” says Dinara who is the soloist in the May Jubilations concert with Worthing Symphony Orchestra in Worthing’s Assembly Hall on May 22 at 2.45pm.

Dinara was due to perform with the WSO in Worthing in 2020, a concert which was cancelled with just days to go when the lockdown descended.

She is delighted to be back – but clearly deeply troubled by the events back home. The horror for Dinara, who grew up in Ukraine and studied in Moscow, is that she has lived in both places: “It feels almost like a civil war. I know good smart people in both places. Both countries have given me my education and I know people who live close to the border, either side, and it is just so terrible for them.”

Dinara’s music education started at the age of five in her native Kharkiv, Ukraine. She graduated with highest honours from the Moscow Central Music School and the Moscow State Conservatory P I Tchaikovsky.

“I live close to Wimbledon now and I came to this country in September 2012. I came to study at the Royal College of Music and I just stayed.”

“It was a major change for me but I have always lived in big cities.”

“But what is happening in the Ukraine is terrible. I have lived in Ukraine and in Russia and it just should not be happening.Youjustthinkthatsomehowitshouldhavebeenpossible to find a way to stop this."