Dmytro Udovychenko

Born in 1999 in Ukraine, Dmytro Udovychenko has been studying music since he was five years old. At the age of six, he began attending the Kharkiv Specialized Music Boarding School where he received tuition from Ludmila Varenina.

Dmytro has been the winner of several competitions, with accolades including first prize in the “Accords of Khortytsa” international competition in March 2010. In addition, he won second prize in the 2017 International Jascha Heifetz Competition in Vilnius (Lithuania) and in 2018 was awarded first prize in the Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition in Fermo (Italy), second prize in the Odessa International Violin Competition (Odessa, Ukraine) and second prize in the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hannover (Germany). 2021 then saw him take first prize in the Odessa International Violin Competition.

In his concert career, Dmytro has already performed with numerous orchestras, including the Kharkiv Regional Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kharkiv Youth Symphony Orchestra and many other ensembles throughout Ukraine, Germany and Lithuania. In 2014, he was invited to perform at the Elba Isola Musicale D’Europa international festival by Yuri Bashmet. A number of his concerts have also been recorded by the Ukrainian National Recording House in Kyiv. In addition, he has taken part in many masterclasses with artists including Boris Garlitsky, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Leonidas Kavakos, Sergey Ostrovsky und Natalya Boyarskaya.

Dmytro’s most recent studies were with Professor Boris Garlitsky at Folkwang University of the Arts. During Kronberg Academy’s 2017 Violin Masterclasses, he was awarded the Prince of Hesse Prize. 

Since October 2022, he has been studying at Kronberg Academy with Christian Tetzlaff. His studies were funden from 2022 - 2024 funded by the patronage of Nagarro ES, since 2024 are funded by the Miriam Kaldenbach Foundation. From 2022 - 2024 his studies were funded by the Nagarro ES patronage, since 2024 by the Miriam Kaldenbach Foundation.