Vitalii Kyianytsia (b. 1991) is a Ukrainian pianist and composer. He was born in Kyiv, where he started his musical education at the age of six. He graduated from the National Music Academy of Ukraine as a pianist and composer. Since 2017 he has lived in Germany. In 2017–2018 he was a member of the International Ensemble Modern Academy (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), where he worked and performed under the guidance of Ensemble Modern members. In 2017–2019, he was a student of Prof. Nicolas Hodges at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart (New Piano Music Department). 

Since 2019, Vitalii Kyianytsia has been a permanent member of LUX:NM, a contemporary music ensemble from Berlin. In 2021, he founded Vitalii Kyianytsia Trio and recorded his first album “Last Day of Spring” released in March 2022 by Double Moon Records. His second album “Night Music” was released in 2023 by Paschen Records. Kyianytsia has performed with Ensemble Modern as well.

Vitalii Kyianytsia has received awards from the juries of international competitions including the Orleans Piano Competition 2016 (Andre Boucourechliev Prize), the Transatlantyk Instant Composition Contest Award 2017 (Lodz, Poland), the ACC Composition Competition (Gwangju, South Korea), and Repertoire Pianistique Moderne Piano Competition 2018 (Paris). He participates regularly in major contemporary music events such as the Lucerne Festival Alumni Ensemble and Academy (2016, 2017), Mixtur Festival 2017 (Barcelona), Acht Brucken Festival (Cologne, Germany), Impuls-Festival 2015 (Graz) and Klangspuren Schwaz 2014 (Austria). He has given contemporary piano recitals in Germany, Spain, France, Poland, Italy, Lithuania, Romania, etc. 

Kyianytsia is one of the founders and the pianist of Sed Contra Ensemble (Kyiv, Ukraine). He is a holder of the DAAD scholarship for young artists in the field of music.

Vitalii Kyianytsia, Improvisation on Ukrainian Folk Songs

Performed by Vitalii Kyianytsia

16 March 2022, Charity Concert for the support of Ukraine, Kölner Philharmonie 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uur0m3lqHsk  

Iannis Xenakis, Evryali for piano (1973)

Performed by Vitalii Kyianytsia

December 2018, Stuttgart, Germany

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

Brian Ferneyhough, Lemma-Icon-Epigram (1981)

Performed by Vitalii Kyianytsia

https://soundcloud.com/vitaliy-kyianytsia/brian-ferneyhough-lemma-icon-epigram-1981 

Alla Zagaykevych, To keep silence... for piano and electronics (2002)

Performed by Vitalii Kyianytsia

2012

https://soundcloud.com/vitaliy-kyianytsia/alla-zagaykevych-to-keep-silence-2002-for-piano-and-electronics 

• Night Music des ukrainischen Komponisten, Pianisten & Jazzers Vitalii Kyianytsia. Pro Classics Informiert, 2 June 2023