I have just passed the sad news on to the Acoustic Guitar Forum, which has
74,000 members, though I assume that not all of them are active. Perhaps
some of them would be willing to help also.
-----Original Message-----
From: Anton Birula
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 6:39 AM
To: Lutenet
Subject: [LUTE] Tragedy with Alexei Zimakov an outstanding guitarist.
Dear Friends,
we are writing to you to seek help for our friend Alexei Zimakov, an
outstanding guitarist who has recently lost eight of his fingers. His art
was exceptional, his influence as a musician on the development of guitar
music and motivation of the young musicians was enormous....
Herewith we include information about it. We thought it is important to
write about this because we know him personally and many of you know who we
are.
The help action is provided partly by Guitar Foundation of America
http://www.guitarfoundation.org/news/116861/GFA-Accepting-Donations-for-Alexey-Zimakov-Benefit-Fund.htm
on the Russian Side it is led by Olga Anohina, his long time colleague and
the person who literally raised him since he lost his parents early.
Here are some links that show the level of this musician, just to give an
idea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4sK2ZANID4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYPOR-kn-c8
you will easilly find more stuff on the net.
It looks like besides financial help the logistic Ideas how to help this
musician are also needed.
There is so much abuse on the net in the field of charity etc, that it feels
important to personaly certify the situation is REAL.
We have spoken to Mrs. Anohina personally 10 min ago. We know her and we
know Alex, it is so tragic that there are no words to discribe this in full.
Yours Truly, LUTEDUO.
Anna Kowalska & Anton Birula
www.luteduo.com
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