Yevgeniy Kostrytskyy

Yevgeniy Kostrytskyy was born in Kyiv in 1980 and started studying violin at the age of eight. He studied at the Kyiv Special Music School and the Ukrainian National Academy of Music, where his teachers were Yaroslava Rivnyak and Bohodar Kotorovych. In 2003 he won a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD) in London where he continues his studies in his 4th Postgraduate year with Prof. David Takeno.

Yevgeniy Kostrytskyy has given many successful performances in various European countries and the USA. He has participated in many music festivals and has given numerous concerts as soloist with more than ten orchestras. He has improved his skills in master classes led by such famous musicians as Krzysztof Smietana, Oleg Krysa, Marie Tampere-Bezrodnaya, Mark Lakirovich, Lewis Kaplan, Zvi Zeitlin, Charles Castelman, Boris Garlitsky, Mikhail Kopelman, Ani Schnarch, Yair Kless, Sergiu Schwartz and others.

Yevgeniy is a Prize-Winner of several piano competitions including the Pierre Lantierre International Violin Competition, the Pierre Lantierre International Chamber Music Competition, the Petar Conjovich International Chamber Music Competition and the Jascha Heifetz International Competition. In November 2005 Yevgeniy won the Slaughter and May “Best Musician of 2005” award.

In collaboration with the Ukrainian Embassy in the UK Yevgeniy has organised an international musical project called “New B.E.S.T.” (New British Educated Soloist Team). The project involves musicians from Ukraine and other countries of Eastern Europe, and its aims are to bring to Ukraine new skills which have been learnt in Europe, particularly in the UK and at the GSMD, to entertain audiences, to bring music to audiences which are disadvantaged in some way, to promote and establish the name of the GSMD, to facilitate and encourage cultural cooperation between the UK and Ukraine and to help Ukraine’s deeper integration into European cultural life. In November 2005 a “New B.E.S.T.” concert took place in the Barons Hall at Arundel Castle, organised and supported by the Duchess of Norfolk and the Embassy of Ukraine.

In November 2005 he won the Slaughter and May 'Best Musician of 2005' award, and was successful in the LSO String Experience Scheme auditions for 2006/07.

In 2007 he became a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.