Masters on Stage. Yevgeniy Kostrytskyy (violin, Ukraine) and Sasha Grynyuk (piano, Ukraine/UK)

Works by Dvořák, Chopin, Elgar, Silvestrov, Skorik

Yevgeniy Kostrytskyy was born in Kyiv in 1980 and started studying violin at the age of eight. He studied at Kyiv Special Music School and National Music Academy of Ukraine with Prof. Yaroslava Rivnyak. In 2003 he won a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to study as a postgraduate student with Prof. Krzysztof Smietana and Prof. David Takeno. He has completed his Master Degree, Diploma in Orchestra Training, Chamber Music Diploma and in 2007 he was awarded a Guildhall School of Music & Drama Concert Artist Fellowship.

Yevgeniy Kostrytskyy has made a lot of successful appearances in many countries in Europe, Japan, South Korea and the USA. He has participated in many music festivals and has given numerous concerts as a soloist of more than twenty orchestras. Yevgeniy improved his skills in master classes under the leadership of such famous musicians as: Krzysztof Smietana, Oleg Krysa, Mari Tampere-Bezrodny, Mark Lakirovich, Lewis Kaplan, Zvi Zeitlin, Charles Castelman, Boris Garlitsky, Mikhail Kopelman, Ani Schnarch, Yair Kless, Sergiu Schwartz and others.

He is a Prize-Winner of several piano competitions including: Pierre Lantierre International Violin and Pierre Lantierre International Chamber Music Competition, Petar Conjovich International Chamber Music competition. He was also awarded with a special prize of the Jascha Heifetz International competition. In November 2005 Yevgeniy won the “Slaughter and May” Best Musician of 2005 award. He was successful with the LSO String Scheme auditions for 2006/07. As the result he has been a member of the LSO for two years and played with Valery Gergiev and Sir Colin Davies. In 2007 Yevgeniy became the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Artist Fellow. In September 2007 with the “Forte String Quartet” he performed at the 10 Downing Street in the Prime-Minister residency. In September 2008 he became a principal of the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra (OPO, Ukraine) and has been leading the OPO for ten years. Yevgeniy is a soloist and a guest-leader of the Dnepropetrovsk Chamber Orchestra “The Seasons” with its principal conductor Dmitriy Logvin. Since 2014 Yevgeniy has had an honour to play as a soloist and to lead the Young Musicians European Orchestra with Maestro Paolo Olmi. In 2014 Yevgeniy together with his colleagues from the OPO established the Odessa chamber orchestra. In March 2018 the Orchestra took part in the Urban Music Hall formal opening ceremony and became the Orchestra in residence of that new concert venue in Odessa. Since October 2018 Yevgeniy has been a guest-concertmaster of the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, Turkey and in February 2020 became a full-time employed. He plays the Italian violin made by Luigi Legnani in 1850-60.

Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sasha Grynyuk studied at the National Music Academy of Ukraine and later at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Sasha was described by legendary Charles Rosen as “an impressive artist with remarkable, unfailing musicality always moving with the most natural, electrifying, and satisfying interpretations”.

Winner of over ten International competitions, prizes and awards, Sasha was chosen as a 'Rising Star' for BBC Music Magazine and International Piano Magazine. His successes also include First Prizes in the Grieg International Piano Competition and the BNDES International Piano Competition, in addition to winning the Guildhall School of Music's most prestigious award – the Gold Medal – previously won by such artists as Jacqueline Du Pré and Bryn Terfel.

Sasha has performed around the world in many major venues including Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), Bridgewater Hall (Manchester), Wiener Konzerthaus, Weil Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall, New York), Teatro Real (Rio de Janeiro) and Salle Cortot (Paris). He has performed with such orchestras as the Royal Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Orchestra Sinfonica Brasiliera and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine.

Among Sasha's ongoing projects are performances of Shostakovich's original piano score for the 1929 silent film The New Babylon, which he premièred at LSO St. Luke's, London, and later performed at Leif Ove Andsnes' Rosendal Festival, Norway. "Sasha Grynyuk amazed all attendees and took one of the longest, sincere and enthusiastic applause of these days" — El País review of the Rosendal Festival. "Sasha Grynyuk was in stunning form throughout, bringing tonal variety along with symphonic unity rendered with feeling and remarkable precision. " — Classical Source.

Sasha is a Keyboard Trust artist and currently benefits from the artistic guidance of its founder Noretta Conci-Leech. His recording of music by Glenn Gould and Friedrich Gulda for Piano Classics was chosen as the record of the month for the German magazine Piano News and shortlisted for the New York Classical Radio Award.

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