Khrystyna Mykhailichenko
Tyne Valley favourite returns to Hexham
Saturday, 3rd April 2027 – 7.30pm
Queen’s Hall Arts Centre
Return of a dazzling virtuoso
To bring our 75th-anniversary season to a close, we are delighted to welcome the brilliant young pianist Khrystyna Mykhailichenko back to Hexham.
She gave an extraordinary concert for us in April 2024 and now, after three years at the Royal Academy of Music — and her first solo recital at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall in June 2026, she returns with a new programme.
Come and witness Khrystyna’s prodigious talent for yourself. Hers is a career bursting with promise.
Introducing Khrystyna Mykhailichenko
Born in Simferopol, Ukraine, Khrystyna moved to the UK in 2022 and spent much of the next year in Corbridge before moving to London in 2023 to study at the Royal Academy of Music on a full scholarship.
She is already recognised as a performer of the highest level and of immense virtuosity, and has appeared on concert platforms all over the world.
In the UK alone, she has made more than 40 appearances since 2022, ranging from solo recitals to concerto and chamber performances. She made her London concerto debut in 2025, performing Gershwin’s piano concerto at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Praise and recognition for Khrystyna Mykhailichenko:
‘An extraordinary talent of rare maturity for her age’ Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Principal, Royal Academy of Music
‘Remarkable playing from this young Ukrainian pianist … playing with extraordinary mastery and mature musical understanding.’ Christopher Axworthy
Programme
The Queen’s Hall piano will get a good workout this evening as Khrystyna tackles three pinnacles of the solo piano repertoire.
Written at around the time of his mother’s death in 1788, Mozart’s eighth piano sonata is a remarkable work. Dramatic and sombre in parts – it’s one of the few pieces Mozart wrote in a minor key – it is also touching and emotional.
Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit is famously one of the most difficult piano pieces ever written. Its three movements are based on poems in a collection of the same name by the 19th-century poet, Aloysius Bertrand. The brilliance and invention in the piano writing are breathtaking.
Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 8 is the last of the composer’s three ‘war sonatas’ written between 1939 and 1944. The introspection of the first movement and the dream-like slow movement give way to a fiery finale that will ‘knock your socks off’.
Mozart Piano Sonata no. 8 in A Minor, K.310
Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit
Prokofiev Piano Sonata no.8 in B flat Major, op.84
Watch a recent performance
Khrystyna plays part of Robert Schumann’s Humoreske
A performance of Rachmaninov’s first sonata in Darmstadt, Germany
Brahms’s 1st piano concerto in Lviv, Ukraine in 2024
Book your tickets
Khrystyna’s previous concert for the society was a sell-out. Book now to guarantee your seat for this one!
Book direct with Hexham & District Music Society for the best ticket price.
Event details
Venue: Queen’s Hall Arts Centre, Hexham, Northumberland
Date: Saturday, 3rd April 2027
Time: 7.30pm
Tickets: Online through the Hexham and District Music Society website – £20.
Also available from the Queen’s Hall Arts Centre – £23 plus booking fee.
