Tatiana Riabinkina Photo: supplied
A Russian composer living in New Zealand has written two works directly responding to the current invasion of Ukraine.
Tatiana Riabinkina says she is horrified at what's happening in the country under attack by her homeland's leader.
Over the past few weeks she's composed a work that the New Zealand String Quartet is about to premiere. It's called 'No War'.
Tatiana also composed 'Thinking of Ukraine', a piano cycle based on the melody of a Ukranian folk song.
In addition, she's written an article in the New Zealand composers' newspaper Canzonetta, expressing her distress at the carnage in Ukraine, a country she's visited several times.
Lynn Freeman spoke to Tatiana from her home in Temuka, and asked what brought her and her husband to Aotearoa three and a half years ago.
The New Zealand String Quartet will premiere Tatiana Riabinkina's composition "No War" in Wellington on the 13th of May.
The score for "No War" is available for free for everyone by clicking on this link
