Journals of the first competition for incentive prizes for students of the KhDML
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Dmitro Nazarenko
A graduate of the KhSSMS (class of Prof. T. Verkina), he graduated from the KhNMU and completed his postgraduate studies under her guidance. Doctor of Music, he taught at KhNUM, Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg (Germany), Rowan University, Montgomery College and University of Maryland (USA). He has a private studio in Bethesda and is one of the leading teachers in Washington, DC. He has given recitals and concerts with orchestras in the USA, Lithuania, Germany, and other countries. His students have won many competitions nationally and internationally. They have performed at Carnegie Hall (New York), John F. Kennedy Memorial Centre for the Performing Arts (Washington, DC), etc.
GENIA (EvgenIya ChudInovich)
She is a graduate of the KhSSMS (class of V. Makarov) and the Kotlyarevsky National University of Music (class of S. Yushkevych). Her first teacher was her great-grandmother, a teacher at the Kherson Music School and sister of the world-famous pianist Volodymyr Horovytsia, Regina Horovytsia. Later she graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (class of D. Havill), Dartington and COMA Summer Schools, De Montfort University (Leicester), Lewis University (Peoria, USA), and participated in the California Association of Piano Teachers (CAPMT) and EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association) International Conferences.
She has performed in Europe (Wigmore Hall, Southbank and Barbican in the UK) and the USA, and has released many recordings of contemporary and original music.
She is a composer, concert pianist, producer, founder of Piano-Yoga® — a revolutionary holistic method of piano playing, winner of many premieres.
Андрiй Цигiчко
Graduated from the KSCMS (class of G. Gelfgat). He graduated with honours from the Kotlyarevsky National Music University (class of Prof. V. Syriatsky) and postgraduate studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater «Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy» in Leipzig, Germany (class of G. Fauth and H.-M. Schreiber), where he remained a teacher. He is a laureate of international competitions. He has given concerts in many European countries, Japan and the USA. He has been a jury member of international competitions, including the AMADEUS International Piano Accompanists Competition and the V. Krainev International Competition. He has students who are winners of national and international competitions.
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Olga Monah
Graduated from the KhSSMS (class of T. Verkina). Graduated from the Hochschule der Künste Berlin (class of Klaus Hellwig). She is an active performer, having performed at the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Musikverein. She has won more than 15 international competitions. She is the founder of the Nice Chamber Music Festival and the Samson François International Competition in France. She was an associate professor at the Anton Rubinstein Musikakademie in Berlin and taught at the Universität der Künste Berlin. She founded a piano school in Berlin. She lives in Nice and teaches at the Conservatoire de Monaco.
Mariya Yudenko
Graduated from the KhSSMS (class of O. Kolesnikova), Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany (class of Prof. G. Mishori), University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria (class of Prof. M. Cherniavska). She works at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. She has won international competitions in Spain, Italy, Croatia, Germany, Sweden, and France. She is an active concert artist. She has collaborated with the world-famous company Steinway & Son.
She has performed in Europe (Wigmore Hall, Southbank and Barbican in the UK) and the USA, and has released many recordings of contemporary and original music.
She is a composer, concert pianist, producer, founder of Piano-Yoga® — a revolutionary holistic method of piano playing, winner of many premieres.