Roman Lopatynskyi

Roman Lopatynskyi was born in Kiev. As a laureate of over 20 international piano competitions, such as Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, Busoni Competition in Bolzano, Italy and V. Horowitz International Piano Competition in Kiev, he is one of Ukraine’s most prominent and aspiring young pianists. Roman is a member of the Heidelberg Festival Academy 2017. He is a regular guest of renowned international concert halls and festivals such as Ginza Hall in Tokyo, Steinway Hall in New York, the Mariinsky International Piano Festival in St. Petersburg, the Next Generation Festival in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, and the Festival Heidelberger Frühling, and shared successful collaborations with the National Symphony Orchestra and the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken, Arena di Verona Orchestra and the Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna. He also had a debut in Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Vienna. Roman started to play the piano at the age of five and already won his first special prize, the Silber Bell Ukraine, after three years. In 2009 the young pianist entered the class of Boris Petrushansky at the International Academy Incontri col Maestro in Italy. In the same year, he started studying with Sergii Riabov at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine. Some of his recent prizes include: First Prize at the 6th Siegfried Weishaupt Piano Competition at the International Summer Academy of Music 2016, Ochsenhausen; First Prize at the International Piano Competition Luciano Luciani, Cosenza; Second Prize at the Verona International Piano Competition, Verona; First Prize at the Russian Piano Music International Piano Competition 2019, Sanremo; Second Prize at the International Piano Competition Spanish Composers, Las Rozas De Madrid; and Third Prize at the XXII Scriabin International Piano Competition, Grosseto.