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 won prizes at several competitions, including first prize at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium in 2024. Prior to that, he won second prize at the International Jascha Heifetz Competition in Vilnius (Lithuania) in 2017, among other awards. In 2018, he won first prize at the Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition in Fermo (Italy), second prize at the International Violin Competition in Odessa (Ukraine) and second prize at the International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition in Hanover. In 2021, he was awarded first prize at the International Odessa 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 Ana Chumachenko, Christian Tetzlaff, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Stephan Picard, Leonidas Kavakos and Boris Garlitsky.

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.