Pianist Vitaliy Samoshko of Kharkiv to debut in New York on March 6

NEW YORK - Twenty-six-year-old pianist Vitaliy Samoshko of Kharkiv, winner of the 1999 Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium, who is currently on a world concert tour, will make his New York debut on Monday, March 6, at The Metropolitan Museum in a program of works by Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin and Prokofiev.

The concert will be held in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, main floor, Egyptian Wing, beginning at 8 p.m. Tickets at $15 may be ordered in advance by calling (212) 570-3949, or purchased at the Box Office which opens at 7 p.m.

Mr. Samoshko received his musical training at the Kharkiv Conservatory. He began studying with Leonid Margarius in 1985 and went on to win a series of prizes starting with the Busoni Competition in 1993, followed by the Senigalia Competition in 1995, the Montreal Competition in 1996 and the Rubinstein Competition in 1998.

As laureate of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth competition, which counts musicians of the highest caliber among its prize winners, Mr. Samoshko has a two-year contract for concertizing in Europe, the United States and Asia.

Mr. Samoshko, who currently is continuing his studies in Imola, Italy, has been concertizing and giving recitals in Ukraine, Russia, Australia, South Africa and across Europe. His last appearance in Kyiv was on November 26, 1999, where he appeared in recital at the National Music Academy in a concert sponsored by the Embassy of Belgium of Ukraine.

This year, he is touring Japan, Lebanon and the United States, where apart from New York, he will appear in recital in Savannah, Georgia on March 8. He will also perform at the Tonhalle Zürich, at the Châtelet in Paris, as well as in Canada in July.

Mr. Samoshko's New York concert has been made possible thanks to the support of the European Union Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, February 27, 2000, No. 9, Vol. LXVIII

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