Antonii Baryshevskyi

Antonii Baryshevskyi
Антоній Сергійович Баришевський
Background information
Born (1988-10-10) October 10, 1988 (age 36)
Kyiv, Ukraine
GenresClassical music
OccupationMusician
InstrumentPiano
Websitehttps://www.antoniibaryshevskyi.com

Antonii Baryshevskyi (Ukrainian: Антоній Сергійович Баришевський) is a Ukrainian concert pianist. He won first prize at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition[1] and second prize at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition.[2] Baryshevskyi performs as soloist, chamber musician and with symphony orchestras.

Life and work

Baryshevskyi played a concert in Kyiv Philharmonic on 22 February 2022, the day before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On the first day of the war he went to Lviv and start volunteering. In an interview with Michael Ertl for BBC World Service he said "First few days we were making camouflage nets and then we thought maybe we can do something more. My goal now is to show Ukrainian music."[3]

Baryshevskyi organised and played a charity video concert on 23 March 2022, together with violinist Aleksey Semenenko and others, to help colleagues.[4] After he was permitted to leave the country, he made his way to the Netherlands. From 2023 he is artist-in-residence at Splendor (Amsterdam) [nl].[5] In October 2023 Baryshevskyi and violinist Alexey Semenenko accompanied the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine's tour of the United Kingdom as alternating soloists.[6][7]

An arrangement for piano four hands of Maxim Shalygin's Drop after Drop (2022) was performed as an encore by Baryshevskyi and Anna Fedorova on 13 January 2024 at the Concert for Ukraine at the De Doelen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.[8] Commissioned by Festivals for Compassion for string quartet, Drop after Drop reflects the composer's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, encapsulating deep pain and memories through its haunting melodies.[9]

Baryshevskyi gives master classes in Ukraine and abroad. He is a guest professor in Davidsbündler Music Academy in the Hague, Netherlands.[10]

Reception

In reviewing Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition, Geoffrey Norris for Gramophone magazine wrote that:

Baryshevskyi dared to be different, and he does so again here. If you prefer your Pictures in bold primary colours, this is not for you, but Baryshevskyi has ideas that penetrate beyond the surface of the canvas to touch facets of emotion that are obviously personal to him and which bring to the exhibition a special perspective. Baryshevskyi's performances of Scriabin that are the most unequivocally impressive.[11]

A review of Shostakovich: Suite for Variety Orchestra; Concerto for Piano, Trumpet & Strings; The Golden Age in Classical Music described "how the satirical fireworks were always shadowed by a mournful remoteness. And these opposites are nicely balanced here under Antonii Baryshevskyi's volatile fingers and Howard Griffiths's crisp direction."[12]

Recordings

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b "Antonii Baryshevskyi – Arthur Rubinstein International Music Society". 21 December 2016. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Hall of Fame Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition". 20 December 2016. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Ukraine's cultural frontline". soundcloud.com. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  4. ^ Willer, Monika (23 March 2022). "Folkwang-Professoren spielen für die ausgebombten Kollegen". Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  5. ^ "Artist in Residence: Antonii Baryshevskyi". splendoramsterdam.com. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  6. ^ "National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine announces UK tour", Rachel Hall, The Guardian, 12 October 2022
  7. ^ "After rehearsals interrupted by air raids, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine embarks on UK tour", Owen Mortimer, Classical Music, 16 October 2023 (subscription required)
  8. ^ Henny Tonnaer (14 January 2024). "De taal van muziek". hermitageblog.wordpress.com (in Dutch). De Hermitage. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
  9. ^ "The Riot Ensemble performs 'drop after drop' by Maxim Shalygin". thestrad.com. Newsquest Media Group Limited. 10 November 2022. Archived from the original on 10 November 2022. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
  10. ^ "Mentors". Davidsbündler Music Academy. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  11. ^ a b "Mussorgsky Pictures at and Exhibition". Gramophone. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  12. ^ a b "Shostakovich: Suite for Variety Orchestra; Concerto for Piano, Trumpet & Strings; The Golden Age". Classical Music. 8 July 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  13. ^ "Ustvolskaya Piano Sonatas Nos 1–6". Gramophone. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  14. ^ Chopin, Frédéric (2019). "24 preludi op. 28 ; 5 mazurke ; Scherzo n. 2 op. 31". Library of Congress catalog.
  15. ^ "Baryshevskyi: Lunyov/Retinsky. The new release of Golka Records". The Claquers. 10 September 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  16. ^ "Середня група 2005". 20 December 2016. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  17. ^ "4th Isidor Bajic Piano Memorial – C category – results – orchestra finals". 27 June 2016. Archived from the original on 27 June 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  18. ^ "Results – Paterna International Piano Prize". 3 March 2016. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  19. ^ "L'association Animato". 19 July 2016. Archived from the original on 19 July 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2023.[failed verification]
  20. ^ "2013 – OPM". 20 December 2016. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  21. ^ "Charismatic Georgian wins 2nd European Piano Nights : EIB Institute". 9 June 2016. Archived from the original on 9 June 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2023.