Tetiana Lutsyk was born in Kolomyya (Ukraine) in 1994, and received her first violin lessons at the age of six. From 2006 to 2008, she was taught by Professor Sergey Evdokimov at the specialist music boarding school in Charkiw, and from 2008 to 2012 she was taught by Professor Mariya Futorska at the “Solomiya Krushelnytska” specialist music boarding school in Lviv. She is currently studying with Professor Leonid Sorokow at the Academy of Music in Zagreb.
She has attended several masterclasses, with Dora Schwarzberg, Maria Milstein, Boris Brovtsyn, Sven Arne Tepl and Kees Koelmans, amongst others, and also with members of the Cuarteto Casals, the Alban Berg Quartet and the Juilliard String Quartet. She also gained further musical input from a masterclass with Professor Oleh Krysa, who teaches at the Eastman School of Music Conservatory in Rochester/New York. Tetiana Lutsyk receives a scholarship from the International Academy of Music in Liechtenstein, and participates in the intensive music weeks held there.
The young musician has already won several prizes at national and international competitions, including the 1st prize at the international “Young Virtuoso” competition in Croatia in 2013, the 3rd prize at the international “Francesco Geminiani” competition in Italy in 2014, 1st prize at the international “Bistricki zvukolik” competition in Croatia in 2015, and the 3rd prize at the “Luigi Zanuccoli” international violin competition in Italy in 2016.
Tetiana Lutsyk has performed as a soloist with the chamber orchestra of the “Solomiya Krushelnytska” specialist music boarding school in Belgium, France, Poland and at home in Ukraine. In 2012, she performed Alexander Glasunov’s violin concerto with the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra. During the first year of her studies, she gave a very accomplished performance of Jean Sibelius’ violin concerto with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, which led to her being given a part-time job with the orchestra shortly afterwards. She is currently a member of the ENSEMBLE ESPERANZA, which is made up of scholarship holders from the International Academy of Music in Liechtenstein, and will be performing at the FESTIVAL NEXT GENERATION in Bad Ragaz. She also plays in various chamber music ensembles, with which she regularly takes part in concerts and competitions.
Tetiana Lutsyk has received scholarships from “Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland” and from the International Summer Academy of the mdw – the University of Music and the Performing Arts Vienna.
February 2018