Yurii Pikush was born in 1998 in the city of Dnipro, Ukraine. He was trained as a mandolin player at the Dnipro Music Academy (2013–2017) and graduated from the National Music Academy of Ukraine with a Bachelor’s, then a Master's diploma in Composition (class of Prof. Oleksandr Kostin, 2017–2022; prof. Mykola Kovalinas, 2022–2023). He is a member of the National Composers Union of Ukraine.

Yurii Pikush participated in master classes of new music such as COURSE International Master Classes in Lviv (2019, 2020); consulted with composers such as Šimon Voseček, Tamara Friebel, Anna Korsun, Sławomir Wojciechowski, Sergej Maingardt, Etienne Haan, and others. 

During the composition master classes within the Warsaw Autumn festival, Pikush took lessons with Yannis Kyriakides and Sky Macklay (Poland, 2023). He participated in the contemporary music projects of CMM Youth Music Center (Kyiv, 2023).

Yurii Pikush was a composer of the Muse Project by Vivier InterUniversitaire (Canada), National Music Academy of Ukraine (2023), and Transhumanism Multimedia Project (Kyiv, 2023).

Yurii’s works have been performed at international festivals of contemporary music such as 19. Tage der Neuen Musik Bamberg (Germany, 2023), Usedomer Musikfestival (Germany, 2023), Premieres of Season (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2024); Contrasts International Contemporary Music Festival (Lviv, Ukraine, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023), Kharkiv Music Fest (2018, 2023), New Music in Ukraine (2018), and others.

Performers of Pikush’s works include the National Ensemble of Soloists Kyiv Camerata, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, the Kharkiv Music Fest Quartet, Ensemble Nostri Temporis (Ukraine), ensemble recherche (Germany), Ensemble Proton Bern (Switzerland), Kateryna Boichuk, Viktor Rekalo, and others.

Protean for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, harp and piano (2023)

Commissioned by Ensemble Proton Bern

Performed by Ensemble Proton Bern: Bettina Berger (flute), Martin Bliggenstorfer (oboe), Richard Haynes (clarinet), Arlette Probst (bassoon), Vera Schnider (harp), Coco Schwarz (piano)

20 June 2023, Bern, Switzerland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPb7fVSGKqQ  

Be a Cycle for flute, violin, double bass and piano (2023)

Commissioned by Neue Musik Bamberg Festival

Performed by Ensemble Nostri Temporis: Andrii Pavlov (violin), Nataliia Kozhushko-Maksymiv (flute), Nazarii Stets (double bass), Dmytro Tavanets (piano)

12 November 2023, Bamberg, Germany

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR149FEdGfw  

Concellastra, concerto for cello and orchestra (2023)

Performed by Artem Poludennyi (cello), Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Vincent Kozlovsky, conductor (Poland)

1 October 2023, Lviv, Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxVW8eGV_fk  

Summa Tempologica for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (2021)

The second edition (2022) commissioned by the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Center (Lviv, Ukraine)

Performed by ensemble recherche 

18 February 2023, Freiburg, Germany

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dbSV6dcV2o  

Concerto for violin and orchestra (2023)

Performed by Kateryna Boichuk (violin), National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Viktor Ploskina (conductor)

27 June 2023, National Music Academy of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDscyWLir9o