{"id":738360,"date":"2026-08-15T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738360\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T02:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:00:10","slug":"ukrainian-refugee-wins-place-to-study-music-at-oxford-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738360\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian refugee wins place to study music at Oxford University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dmytro said his music could also be an escape for him, putting him into &#8220;a different world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It helps me forget about the day routine life and everything that happens in the world,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And just escape there onto a stage or onto a rehearsal with people that the only thing you&#8217;ll be talking about and doing together is music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said it also connected him with his home city of Kyiv, where he still keeps in contact with his teachers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Actually I&#8217;ve messaged a couple of them today saying I got into Oxford,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My conducting teacher back in Kyiv, she was really happy to see that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After successful A-level results in maths, music technology and music he said he was excited to be starting at Lincoln College in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m so thrilled to join many choirs that are there, I&#8217;m so thrilled to join a lot of other activities that they have and of course to learn more about music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he said it was &#8220;really hard to talk about future after what I&#8217;ve been through and I would never say never in my life again&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would just love to keep working with amazing people and compose, create and share music with everyone,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dmytro said his music could also be an escape for him, putting him into &#8220;a different world&#8221;. &#8220;It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-738360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}