Volodymyr Vynnytsky - Piano
A laureate of the Margueritte Long-Jacques Thibaud International Piano Competition in Paris (1983), pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky has performed with the leading orchestras of Ukraine, as well as with the Poznan Symphony Orchestra (Poland), the Paris Radio and Television Orchestra, the Scottsdale Symphony Orchestra, the Livonia Symphony Orchestra (Michigan), Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra (South Africa) and many others.
He has appeared in many prestigious concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Steinway Hall, the Phillips Gallery in Washington D.C., the Great (Bolshoi) Hall at the Moscow Conservatory, the Theatre Champs d’Elysees, Amphitheatre Richelieu de la Sorbonne, Salons de Boffrand de la Presidence du Senat in Paris, St.John’s Smith Square in London, Philharmonic Big Hall of Columns (Kyiv), Odesa Philharmonic Theatre in Ukraine, Tsai Performance Center (Boston), Teatro de Santa Isabel in Recife, Brazil, Linder Auditorium in Johannesburg and Baxter Theatre Centre Concert Hall in Cape Town, South Africa among many others.
Volodymyr Vynnytsky has also earned a reputation of a brilliant chamber music performer, appearing with such noted ensembles as the Kyiv Chamber Orchestra “Perpetuum Mobile,” the Leontovych String Quartet, the St. Petersburg String Quartet, and Zapolsky String Quartet from Denmark. He has also performed at numerous musical festivals, including Connecticut’s Music Mountain, the Mohonk Festival of the Arts, the Windham Chamber Music Festival, “Music at the Institute” in New York, Masters de Pontlevoy in France, Lake San Marcos Chamber Music Society in California, Bargemusic, Piccolo Spoleto in Charleston and the Music and Art Center of Greene County, where he has served as artistic advisor and resident pianist since 1996. He performed at the Shostakovich Festival at the Moores Opera House in Houston, Texas, and most was invited to be a special host in the Rachmaninoff International Festival Concert held at Herbert Zipper Concert Hall, Los Angeles. He has also been featured on WQXR-FM in New York , NPR and NHK-TV (Japan).
Described by critics as possessing “incredible technique and deep musical understanding”, his recent performance in Charleston, South Carolina earned him glowing praise in The Post and Courier in a review entitled “Ukrainian pianist delivers excellence”, in which his playing is hailed as “a grand display of skill and precision that was breathtaking”.
Born in Lviv, Ukraine, Volodymyr Vynnytsky studied at the Lviv Music School for Gifted Children and later at the Moscow Conservatory. After earning his doctorate in 1983 from the Moscow Conservatory, he taught at the Kyiv Conservatory and concertized extensively throughout Ukraine, the other republics of the former Soviet Union, Europe, USA, Canada, Central America and South Africa.
Mr. Vynnytsky was a visiting member of the piano faculty in SUNY at Purchase and at the University of Connecticut. In 2003 He was appointed music director of the Music and Art Center of Greene County.
In October 2008 Volodymyr Vynnytsky was awarded a title – Honorary Professor of Lviv State Academy of Music, Ukraine; on May 2010 – Honorary Professor of Odesa State Music Academy, Ukraine.
