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Biographies
Who is accompanied by the orchestra?
Piano
Vera Semkiv
Vira Simkiv was born in 2009 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Urkaine and started playing the piano at age . She is a student at Solomiya Krushelnytska Lviv Secondary Specialized Music Boarding School since 2017 and studies under Ljudmila Zakopets. Besides music, she is also interested in theatre, literature, especially in poetry, having even written poems of her own. Winning multiple medals, is also a passionate swimmer. As a pianst she had success at competitions, such as: Mozart Art Kids online Wettbewerb (1st prize, 2021), „Bieszczady bez Graniz“ competition in Sanok (Gold, Poland, 2019), „Bortnianski International Competition“ (2ⁿd prize, 2019, Ukraine), „Chopin Spring“ competition in Lutsk (2021, Ukraine).
Trumpet
Karol Łopiński
Karol Łopiński, born in 2004 in Poznań, began playing the trumpet at the age of 6 in a class of Marek Galubiński at the Karol Kurpiński Primary Music School in Poznań, with whom he continues his education at the Jadwiga Kaliszewska Comprehensive Secondary Music School. Karol took part in music courses many times, during which he collaborated with many trumpet players from around the world, including R. Gryń, R. Romm, G. Cassone, B. Ridenour, O. Antonsen and K. Braker. In 2020, he received the Prime Minister's Scholarship for the best results in science, and in 2022 for his artistic achievements he was awarded the Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Karol's most important successes include: 1st place at the 29tʰ Poznań Competition for Wind Instruments in Poznań (2022), 1st place at the Kazakhstan International Music Competition (2021), 1st place at the 5tʰ International Contemporary Music Competition in Odessa (2021) and 1st place at the International Competition in Lviv (2020).
Zoya Nevgodovska
Conductor
Ukrainian born violinist Zoya Nevgodovska is living in Berlin, teaches violin at the college for music Hanns Eisler in Berlin since 2003 and since 2006 she leads the violin class for talented young violinists at the secondary music school C. Ph. E. Bach Berlin. She was born in Kyiv and finished her school education at the KSSMS - special music school for gifted children in Kyiv in 1994. In Germany since 1995, she was a student in the city of Hannover and finished her education at the Hanns Eisler college of Music in Berlin 2003. After that she started educating the gifted students of the Secondary School for music Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in Berlin where she also conducts the chamber orchestra „Bach-Juniors“. She aslo started uniting young musicians from countries all over Europe in her projects for years and since 2015 she is the head of the summer academy at the Pałac Morawa, concentrating on chamber music with students from Poland, Ukraine, and Germany. As the art director of the Young Classic Dialog Berlin Festival Zoya organizes chamber music gatherings for young instrumentalists from whole european continent.