Vitalii Vyshynskyi

Composers

Vitalii Vyshynskyi (b.1983, Yemilchyne, Zhytomyr Oblast) is a Ukrainian composer, pianist, musicologist, and promoter of classical music.

Vitalii Vyshynskyi received his primary musical education at the Yemilchyne Children’s Music School. In 1998–2002, he studied at the Piano Faculty (class of N. Bodashko) of the Zhytomyr Music School. He graduated from the National Music Academy of Ukraine, where in 2002–2003 he studied piano under Mykhailo Stepanenko, and in 2003–2007 music composition under Yuriy Ishchenko. In 2005, he received a scholarship from the International Association of Richard Wagner Societies (Bayreuth, Germany).

In 2007–2010, Vyshynskyi completed his postgraduate studies at the National Music Academy of Ukraine under Larysa Nebolyubova. In 2008, he was awarded the Scholarship of the President of Ukraine. In 2012, he received his doctorate in the History of Art. In 2012–2019, Vyshynskyi worked at the Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University.

In 2014–2015, as a music promoter (lecturer), Vitalii Vyshynskyi collaborated with Zvuk open lecture center at the Closer Art Club in Kyiv. Since 2014, he has worked as lecturer and curator of music programs at Cultural Project, an educational organization in Kyiv. In 2016-2017 he worked as a guest lecturer at Kyiv-Mohyla Business School.

As an expert in the “Analytics of Culture” program, he worked at the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. Vitalii Vyshynskyi is a member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine (2011). He has worked at the National Music Academy of Ukraine since 2017.

Awards

2015 Winner of the Levko Revutskyi Prize of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine
2017 Winner of the Borys Grinchenko University Prize

Selected works

Elegy for string orchestra and piano (2008)

Performed by Kyiv Chamber Orchestra (conductor Roman Kofman)

1 December 2008, “Ukrainian Avant-garde” concert at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, Kyiv

https://youtu.be/tWhEeZwwP1g

Dodesukaden ("Clickety-clack") for string orchestra, temple blocks, tambourine and piatti (tam-tam) (2012)

Performed by Ensemble of Soloists Kyiv Camerata (conductor Valerii Matiukhin)

https://youtu.be/ajXJTRtExGc

Flies' Funeral for string orchestra (2013)

Performed by Ensemble of Soloists Kyiv Camerata (conductor Valerii Matiukhin, violin Orest Smovzh, contrabass Nazar Stets) https://youtu.be/3T2QYzXgr2I

CAGE. Meditation on strings and beyond them (2014)

Performed by Orest Smovzh (violin), Nataliia Vyshynska (piano)

https://youtu.be/-N8-O8vkHVA?si=uBtyIiF5FonwprC5

fOrest for violin and piano (2011)

Performed by Orest Smovzh (violin), Dmytro Choni (piano)

23 December 2016, St. Lazarus Church, Lviv

https://youtu.be/0b2pG8Rzka4?si=eaI3EgcA2onCb_7R

KÄLTEGEFÜHL for flute and piano (2012)

Performed by Igor Yermak (flute), Arsen Yakovenko (piano)

https://youtu.be/rk3GDo_vNmU?si=N-h3-WUlXeh1t45S

Abendrote-Lieder nach Boris Grintschenko und Ukrainische Volkstexte (2012)

Performed by Oksana Petrykova (soprano), Vitalii Vyshynskyi (piano)