Yurii Pikush

Yurii Pikush was born in Dnipro in 1998. He studied mandolin at the Dnipro Music Academy and composition at the National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv. He is currently studying musicology. He has won prizes at numerous competitions including the All-Ukrainian Borys Liatoshynskyi Composition Competition (Walter Feldman Special Prize, 2018), the Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi Scholarship (2021), the Second Myroslav Skoryk All-Ukrainian Composition Competition (2023) and the Levko Revutskyi State Music Prize (2024).  Pikush is also a member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine. He has participated in international masterclasses for contemporary music including COURSE in Lviv and has worked with renowned composers such as Simon Vosecek, Anna Korsun and Yannis Kyriakides. His works have been performed at festivals including the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival in the USA, Warszawska Jesien, the Neue Tage Musik Bamberg, Contrasts, the Usedom Musikfestival, the Kharkiv Music Fest and the festival New Music in Ukraine. His compositions have been performed by ensembles including the Basel Sinfonietta, the Kyiv Camerata, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine and the Ensemble Recherche.