Matheson, a semi-retired broadcast journalist, lives with her husband, a national director of the Skills Funding Agency, in an end-of-terrace five-bedroomed house. They lived in Poland for three months before arriving in Corbridge last June as part of the Homes for Ukraine scheme. When Khrystyna played the Chopin Ballade No 1 to me recently, it was as if she was channelling the burdens of a hard life Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Royal Academy of Musicīoth feel that classical music helped them to face the trauma of abandoning their home with their mother, Nataliia. Her 12-year-old sister, Sasha, a violinist, has a scholarship to become a weekly boarder at the Yehudi Menuhin School near Leatherhead in Surrey. Khrystyna Mykhailichenko, 17, has been awarded a full bursary for four years to study piano at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Both girls have now received scholarships to two of the UK’s foremost music schools, less than a year after fleeing their home near Kyiv to start new lives in Corbridge, not far from Newcastle.
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