Volodymyr Vynnytsky, a laureate of the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Piano Competition

Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition

The Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition is an international classical music competition for pianists and violinists that has operated in France since 1943. It was created by the pianist Marguerite Long and the violinist Jacques Thibaud...

 in Paris (1983), has established himself as a distinctive musical personality and has received critical audience acclaim for his fresh and penetrating readings of scores. Residing in the US since 1991, he is a visiting member of the faculty at State University of New York, in Purchase, N.Y., and an artist-in-residence at the Music and Art Center of Greene County, in Hunter,N.Y. Born in Lviv

Lviv

Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

, Vynnytsky studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with renowned pianist Yevgeny Malinin

Yevgeny Malinin

Yevgeny Malinin was a Russian pianist.Malinin was born in Moscow. A disciple of Heinrich Neuhaus, he began his career while a student at the Moscow Conservatory...

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