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This year, Ukrainian-born Dmytro Udovychenko took home first place at the Concours musical international de Montreal (CMIM) following a thrilling three rounds of the competition. The young violinists competed against 24 internationally recognized emerging artists for a jury including Koichiro Harada (Japan), Yura Lee (Korea/USA), Malcolm Lowe (Canada), Mihaela Martin (Romania), Lucie Robert (Canada), Dmitry Sitkovetsky (United Kingdom/USA), and Krishna Thiagarajan (Germany/USA).
First, the young violinist demonstrated his skills in the performance of works by Bach, Schumann and Ysaÿe. In the semifinals, he performed works by Bartók, Ravel, Wieniawski, and Canadian composer Luna Pearl Woolf. Udovychenko wowed audiences and jurors alike with his performance of Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77, in the competition’s final round.
As winner, Udovychenko will receive $80,000, an invitation to perform in concert or in recital with the OSM in an upcoming season, and take part in a “Winner’s Tour” to three cities in North America (valued at $15,000).
Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Udovychenko started studying music when he was 5 years old, and was enrolled in the Kharkiv Specialized Music boarding school just one year later, at the age of 6. Udovychenko began his studies at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen, Germany, where—at the age of 16—he was a student of Boris Garlitsky. Currently, the 23-year-old studies with Christian Tetzlaff.
This was not his first major competition win—in fact, Udovychenko has been very successful on the international competition circuit. Previously, he has won the first prize at the International Leopold Auer Competition for Violinists in Saint Petersburg; the International Leonid Kogan Competition for violinists in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine; the International Violin Competition Andrea Postacchini in Fermo, Italy; and the International Odessa Violin Competition in 2021. In 2022, Udovychenko took home third prize at the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition. He also has an extensive history of master-class participation, having worked with the likes of Natalya Boyarskaya, Olga Parkhomenko, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, and Sergey Ostrovsky.
Udovychenko is not to be missed upon his return to Montreal—or anywhere else he can be found performing in the coming years.
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