Roman Lopatynskyi

Lopatynskyi was born in Kyiv in 1993 and studied there with Sergii Riabov at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, and in Italy with Boris Petrushansky at the Incontri col Maestro academy. Prizes came from a long list of competitions — the Horowitz in Kyiv, Hamamatsu, Busoni, Maria Canals in Barcelona, the Rubinstein Master Competition — and in September 2024 he won first prize at the George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest together with the Radu Lupu Prize for the best performance of an Enescu sonata. He has played with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, the Tokyo Symphony, the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken and the orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and made his Vienna debuts at the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus. In February 2020 he reached the final of the Scriabin International Piano Competition at Grosseto.