Volodymyr Vynnytsky

Internationally renowned pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky is laureate of the Margueritte Long-Jacques Thibaud International Piano Competition in Paris. Vynnytsky has performed with leading orchestras and appeared in solo recitals 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, Théatre des Champs-Elysées (Paris, France), 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), Lviv Philharmonic Hall Odesa Philharmonic Theatre in Ukraine, Dunken Kulturhus (Helsingborg, Sweden), The Queen’s Hall (the Dronningesalen Auditorium, Copenhagen, Denmark), Salle de Concert Marie-Stephane (École de musique Vincent d’Indy, Montreal, Canada), Teatro de Santa Isabel in Recife (Brazil),  Linder Auditorium in Johannesburg and Baxter Theatre Centre Concert Hall in Cape Town (South Africa), Tsai Performance Center (Boston), Sacrest Auditorium (Zanesville OH), Hylton Performing Arts Center (George Mason University, VA), Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre (VA), Moss Arts Center (Virginia Tech University), Schar Center (Elon University, NC), State Theatre New Jersey (New Brunswick), Troy Savings Bank Music Hall (NY), Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State Eisenhower Auditorium (Pennsylvania State University), Millard Auditorium(University of Hartford, CT), Herbert Zipper Concert Hall (Los Angeles, CA), Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale (AZ)

Hill Auditorium (UofM, Ann Arbor, MI), Carpenter Theatre Dominion Energy Center (Richmond, VA) among many others.

A popular television and radio guest, he has also been featured on NHK-TV (Japan) and in the Unite States on WQXR-FM in New York, and nationally on NPR.

Recital and chamber music appearances have included guest invitations in numerous International Festivals in Ukraine (Kyiv Music Fest, “Virtuosi”, “Contrasts”, “Bridge of Alexandre III”), France (Masters de Pontlevoy, “Les MusiCimes”, “DSCH”), Brazil  (“Virtuosi”), Curacao (Art in Avila), Canada (Niagara International Chamber Music Festival), Czech Republic (“American Spring” Festival) and USA (Artosphere Arts Festival, Chamber Players International, LWMF, Mohonk Festival of the Arts, Windham Chamber Music Festival, Southampton Festival of the Arts, Lake San Marcos Chamber Music Society, Music Mountain in Connecticut, Piccolo Spoleto in Charleston , Rachmaninoff International Festival in Los Angeles, “Music at the Institute” in New York and Art Center of Greene County.

Described by critics as possessing “incredible technique and deep musical understanding”, “The pianist is simply superb!”, “The phenomenon in concert is a rare one”, “Mystically powerful pianist”, “a grand display of skill and precision that was breathtaking”, Mr. Vynnytsky has performed in recital in such countries as USA, France, England, Denmark, Sweden, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Brazil, Canada, South Africa among many others.

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 from the Moscow Conservatory under the direction of Yevgeny Malinin, he taught at the Kyiv Conservatory and concertized extensively throughout the world.

Volodymyr Vynnytsky has been a visiting member of the piano faculty in SUNY at Purchase, NY and at the University of Connecticut.

Volodymyr served as a Chairman of the Jury of the Emil Gilels International Piano Competition in Odesa, Ukraine.

Volodymyr Vynnytsky is an Honorary Professor of Lviv State Academy of Music, Odesa State Music Academy and Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine (Kyiv Conservatory). He is Director of Chamber Music at the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC and Music Director of the Music and Art Center of Greene County, New York.

Volodymyr Vynnytsky have made an extensive North American tour in February of 2020 as a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, one of the finest Symphony Orchestras in Europe. This tour was managed by Columbia Artists, a legendary organization in the performing arts industry, a global leader in artist management.

Natalia Khoma is an internationally renowned cellist. Since winning First Prize at the Lysenko Cello Competition, while still a student in high school, Khoma has won top prizes at the Budapest Pablo Casals International Competition, Markneukirchen Competition in Germany, and the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, as well as First Prize at the Jeunesses Musicales Belgrade International Cello Competition.

A native of Lviv, Ukraine, Ms. Khoma studied at Solomia Krushelnytska School for gifted children with Evhen Shpitzer, at the Moscow Conservatory with Natalia Shakhovskaya and in the United States, received an Artist Diploma from Boston University under the direction of Leslie Parnas.

The first and only Ukrainian cellist to become a laureate of the Tchaikovsky Competition, Natalia Khoma has since distinguished herself as a recitalist and soloist with orchestras throughout Russia, as well as the U.S., Canada, South America, Germany, Norway, Belgium, Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Eastern Europe, South Africa and the Middle and Far East.

She has performed as a soloist with such leading ensembles as the Berlin Radio Orchestra, Moscow Radio Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Ukrainian National State Symphony Orchestra, Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Ensemble of New York City Symphony Orchestra, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra and has had solo recitals in Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow), Carnegie Hall Weil Recital Hall and Steinway Hall (New York), Merkin Hall (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York), Jordan Hall and Tsai Performance Center (Boston), Schauspielhaus (Berlin, Germany), Palais des Beux Arts (Brussels, Belgium), Amphitheatre Richelieu de la Sorbonne and Salons de Boffrand de la Presidence du Senat (Paris, France), Esterhazy Palace (Shopron, Hungary), Big Hall Academy of Music (Oslo, Norway), Cremona Opera Theatre (Italy), Grand Hall at Queen’s University and Dunning Hall (Kingston, Canada), Teatro Juan Bravo (Segovia, Spain), the Governor’s Palace (Curacao, Netherlands Antilles), Philharmonic Big Hall of Columns (Kyiv, Ukraine), Lviv Philharmonic Hall and Odesa Philharmonic Theatre (Ukraine), Teatro de Santa Isabel in Recife (Brazil), Linder Auditorium in Johannesburg and Baxter Theatre Centre Concert Hall (Cape Town, South Africa), Gaillard Center and Sottile Theatre (Charleston), Wharton Center for Performing Arts (MSU, Lansing MI), Britton Recital Hall (UofM, Ann Arbor MI), Jesse Auditorium (University of Missouri, MO), Ward Recital Hall The Catholic University of America (Washington, DC), McKenna Theatre  SUNY (New Paltz, NY), Rudolph Ganz Memorial Hall Chicago Musical College (Roosevelt University), Regenstein Recital Hall (Northwestern University, Chicago), Dalton Center Recital Hall (Western Michigan University), Swope Hall Auditorium (West Chester University PA), Chicago Cultural Center (Chicago, IL), Bing Theater (Los Angeles, CA), von der Mehden Recital Hall (UConn, CT), Bernheim Hall (Mobile AL), Sauder Concert Hall (Goshen College, IN), Center for the Arts Concert Hall (George Mason University, VA), George Washington Auditorium (Danville, VA), Givens Performing Arts Center (Pembroke, NC), Theatre at Mayo Arts Center (Morristown, NJ), Mechanics Hall (Worcester, MA), Marston Theatre and Alaska Center for the Performing Arts Sidney Laurence Theatre (Anchorage, AK), Black Box Theatre (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Sweeney Concert Hall Sage Hall (Smith College, Northampton MA), Weis Center for the Performing Arts (Bucknell University, PA), Baker Hall Zoellner Arts Center (Lehigh University, PA), Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre (Arlington, VA), Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (University of Illinois) and in a host of countries across the globe. She is often invited to appear at international festivals in Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Canada, Ukraine and the U.S. among others.

Natalia Khoma has been hailed around the world as “technically dazzling”, “intense, brilliant, and with perfect structure”. She also has been praised for “the precision of her executions, Slavic Zen, full warm cello tone….and, what a drive!” “A deeply emotional yet meticulously precise reading, full of fire, that transcended the barriers of music, musician, and audience”. Natalia made her first public appearance on TV at age ten and performed her first concerto with orchestra at age thirteen.

Ms. Khoma has been a professor at the Lviv Conservatory in Ukraine, Roosevelt University College of Music in Chicago, Michigan State University and was a visiting professor of the University of Connecticut School of Music. In 2011 she was appointed Artistic Advisor and Program Coordinator of the Music and Art Center of Greene County, New York.

Natalia Khoma is an Honorary Professor of Lviv State Academy of Music, Odesa State Music Academy and Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine (Kyiv Conservatory).