Odessa Classics Tallinn. Roman and Oleksandr Fediurko

Description

1 June is the International Day for Protection of Children. Two young and talented Ukrainian pianists – Roman and Oleksandr Fediurko – will perform at the Odessa Classics Tallinn Festival on that day at a charity concert. The Fediurko brothers will perform a selection of the best works of piano music, as well as lesser-known pieces from Ukrainian composers.

Oleksandr Fediurko began his studies at the age of 5 at the Children’s Music School No. 21 in Kyiv under the supervision of Professor Halyna Kotsiuba. At the age of 6, he started participating in various piano competitions in Ukraine and abroad, where he won numerous prizes. Most recently, in 2021, he won first place at the Virtuosi per musica di pianoforte and Amadeus competitions in the Czech Republic, the Euregio Piano Award in Germany, and second place at the Vladimir Horowitz Piano Competition in Kyiv. Oleksandr Fediurko has been awarded the City of Kyiv Art Scholarship for three years (2017, 2018, 2021). He is also a scholarship holder of the Leonid Kuchma Foundation.

Roman Fediurko began his studies at a music school in Kyiv in the class of Professor Halyna Kotsiuba at the age of 5. At the age of 6, he started participating in various competitions both in Ukraine and abroad, where he won numerous prizes. Most recently, in 2021, he won first place in the Franz Liszt Centre online piano competition, the Isidor Baji piano competition in Novi Sad, Serbia, and the Wiener Klassiker online competition, and second place in the Euregio Piano Award online competition and the Carl Filtsch piano competition in Sibiu, Romania. Roman Fediurko is a scholarship holder of the Leonid Kuchma Foundation, the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, and the International Music Academy in the Principality of Liechtenstein. In 2021, he received a scholarship from the President of Ukraine for young artists. Currently, Fediurko is studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria.

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 875

Robert Schumann
Études after Paganini Caprices Op. 3

Viktor Kosenko
Poem Désir Op. 11, No. 1

Hennadiy Sasko
Feast on the Vsevolodiv Hill

Viktor Kosenko
Mazurka Op. 3, No. 1

Levko Revutsky
Two Preludes Op. 7

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Variations sérieuses Op. 54

Camille Saint-Saëns
Étude en forme de valse Op. 52, No. 6

Myroslav Skoryk
Melody
Jazz paraphrase on a theme of Für Elise by Ludwig van Beethoven

Performers

OLEKSANDR FEDIURKO piano
ROMAN FEDIURKO piano