GatherNYC presents Trio Fadolìn (Sabina Torosjan on violin, Valeriya Sholokhova on cello, and Ljova, performing on the fadolín) in its Sunday morning concert series at the Museum of Arts and Design in Columbus Circle. Guests at GatherNYC are served exquisite live classical music by New York’s most celebrated artists, a taste of the spoken word, and a brief celebration of silence. The entire experience lasts one hour and evokes the community and spiritual nourishment of a religious service – but the religion is music, and all are welcome.

Trio Fadolín performs music from Ukraine, Russia, New York, and intervening lands, and features the unique sonority of the fadolín, a new six-stringed instrument that encompasses the range of the violin, viola, and cello. The trio formed during the COVID-19 pandemic and its first performances were in the summer of 2021, on a makeshift stage at the Javits Convention Center mass vaccination site, operated by the US Army and sponsored by Sing for Hope. Since that time, the group has made appearances at Bargemusic, Barbès, Symphony Space, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and continues to perform outreach events for Sing For Hope’s stage at the new Moynihan Train Terminal at Penn Station, where they frequently perform with special guests. As the trio’s opportunities to play together grew, their repertoire evolved steadily — it now includes works by Ukrainian composers Vasily Barvinsky, Mykola Kolessa, and Miroslav Skoryk, Spanish-American composer Andrea Casarrubios, folk music from Denmark, Sweden and Romania, in addition to original works by, Ljova. All three musicians are graduates of The Juilliard School.