DMYTRO UDOVYCHENKO

Dmytro has been studying music since the age of five. At the age of six he began studying at the Kharkiv Specialized Music School in the class of Lyudmila Varenina.

Dmytro is a winner of many international music competitions. He won the main prizes at the III International Leopold Auer Competition 2015 (Russia), at the V Yasha Heifetz International Violin Competition 2017 (Lithuania) and the Grand Prix at the 2018 Andrea Postacchini Competition (Italy). In October 2018 Dmytro received the Second Prize, the Audience Choice Award, and the Internet Community Prize at the Josef Joachim International Violin Competition (Germany). He played the Pietro Guarneri 1702 violin , provided by the Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz Foundation.

Dmytro has performed with famous orchestras: Brandenburger Symphoniker, Slovak Sinfonietta, Sønderiyllands Symphoniker (Denmark), NDR Radiophilarmonie, Moscow Virtuosos Orchestra conducted by Volodymyr Spivakov (Moscow), National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine (Kyiv), Youth Symphonic Orchestra (Kharkiv), Luhansk Philharmonic Orchestra, and Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra.

Mr Udovychenko participated in master classes of such famous professors as Boris Garlitsky, Natalia Boyarska, Olga Parkhomenko, Dmytro Sytkovetsky, Serhiy Ostrovsky, Anna Chumachenko,Stephan Picard, Leonidas Kavakos, and Christian Tetzlaff.

In 2013, he was accepted to the class of Professor Boris Garlitsky at Junior Department of the Folkwang Universität der Künste (Essen, Germany). In October 2016, he started his Bachelor degree at the same university.

Dmytro participated in the projects of Kronberg Academy, Violin Channel and Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz.

PROGRAMME

FIRST ROUND

SESSION 1

J.S. BACH: Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001
E. YSAŸE: Sonata No. 6, Op. 27

SESSION 2

F. SCHUBERT: Sonata in A major, D. 574
F. KREISLER: Recitativo and Scherzo, Op. 6
E. YSAŸE/C. SAINT-SAËNS: Caprice d’après L’Etude en Forme de Valse, Op. 52, No. 6

SEMI-FINALS

B. BARTÓK: Sonata for Solo Violin, Sz. 117
KOH CHENG JIN: Before Daybreak
F. WAXMAN: Carmen Fantasie

FINALS

W.A. MOZART: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, K. 493

GRAND FINAL

J. BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77