Antonii Baryshevskyi

The Ukrainian pianist Antonii Baryshevskyi has delivered on the promise shown by a long string of prizes during his student years, succeeding to an unusual degree in combining mainstream Romantic pieces with difficult modernist repertory in his programming. Baryshevskyi was born in Kiev in 1988. He took up the piano at seven and enrolled at the Lysenko Special Secondary Music School in Kiev. Baryshevskyi won first prize at age 16 on a Ukrainian television program called Man of the Year and moved on to the National Music Academy of Ukraine, studying with Valerii Kozlov through ...