Vadym Kholodenko

The winner of the 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2013, pianist Vadym Kholodenko established himself as a star on the keyboard, a charismatic exemplar of the Russian school of pianism. Kholodenko was born in 1986 in Kiev, then part of the Soviet Union. He was the first musician in his family, and he made appearances in Croatia, the U.S., Hungary, and China in his early teens, and he won first prize at the Maria Callas International Piano Competition in 2005. Feeling the need for more rigorous instruction, however, he enrolled the following year at the Tcha...