Vitalii Kyianytsia

Pianist from Ukraine

Vitalii Kyianytsia is a Ukrainian pianist and composer, born in Kyiv in 1991. He began playing the piano at the age of six and graduated as both pianist and composer from the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine. In 2015 he was a resident of the Gaude Polonia programme in Warsaw under the guidance of Zygmunt Krauze, and he took part in the Lucerne Festival Alumni and Academy in 2016 and 2017. He co-founded the Kyiv contemporary music group Sed Contra Ensemble, of which he is the pianist. Since 2017 he has lived in Germany, where he studied with the Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie in Frankfurt and with the pianist Nicolas Hodges in Stuttgart, as a DAAD scholar. Since 2019 he has been a permanent member of the Berlin new-music ensemble LUX:NM, and he has also performed with Ensemble Modern, the Lucerne Festival Ensemble and Stargaze. His prizes include the Andre Boucourechliev Prize at the Orleans Piano Competition (2016), the Transatlantyk Instant Composition Contest in Lodz, the Lviv Composition Competition and the Anton Rubinstein Competition for performer-composers (2009). Alongside contemporary music he has developed a career in jazz: his trio released the album Last Day of Spring in 2022, followed by the solo album Night Music in 2023. Source: Rondo DB

Usual Name Vitalii Kyianytsia
Alternative Spellings Vitaliy Kyianytsia; Vitaliy Kyanitsia; Vitalii Kyianitsia
Links Challenge Records ,  Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie

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Born in Ukraine – 150 Years of Ukrainian Music

2026-11-06

Deutsche Grammophon (DG)