Antonii Baryshevskyi

Antonii Baryshevskyi (Антоній Сергійович Баришевський) is a Ukrainian concert pianist. He won first prize at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition and second prize at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition. Baryshevskyi performs as soloist, chamber musician and with symphony orchestras.

Life and work
Baryshevskyi played a concert in Kyiv Philharmonic on 22 February 2022, the day before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On the first day of the war he went to Lviv and start volunteering. In an interview with Michael Ertl for BBC World Service he said "First few days we were making camouflage nets and then we thought maybe we can do something more. My goal now is to show Ukrainian music."

Baryshevskyi organised and played a charity video concert on 23 March 2022, together with violinist Aleksey Semenenko and others, to help colleagues. After he was permitted to leave the country, he made his way to the Netherlands, and in 2023 was artist-in-residence at Splendor (Amsterdam). He and Semenenko accompanied the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine's tour of the United Kingdom in October 2023 as alternating soloists.

Baryshevskyi gives master classes in Ukraine and abroad, as a guest professor in Davidsbündler Music Academy in the Hague, Netherlands.

Reception
In reviewing Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition, Geoffrey Norris for Gramophone magazine wrote that: "Baryshevskyi dared to be different, and he does so again here. If you prefer your Pictures in bold primary colours, this is not for you, but Baryshevskyi has ideas that penetrate beyond the surface of the canvas to touch facets of emotion that are obviously personal to him and which bring to the exhibition a special perspective. Baryshevskyi's performances of Scriabin that are the most unequivocally impressive."

A review of Shostakovich: Suite for Variety Orchestra; Concerto for Piano, Trumpet & Strings; The Golden Age in Classical Music described "how the satirical fireworks were always shadowed by a mournful remoteness. And these opposites are nicely balanced here under Antonii Baryshevskyi's volatile fingers and Howard Griffiths's crisp direction."

Recordings

 * Selected piano works by Scarlatti, Ravel, Debussy and Rachmaninov at NAXOS label, 2010.
 * Mussorgsky & Scriabin CAvi label, 2015.
 * Six piano sonatas by Galina Ustvolskaya Avi, 2017.
 * Hymne au Soleil (Oeuvres Chorales – Choral Works) by Lili Boulanger with Orpheus Vokalensemble, conductor Michael Alber. Carus-Verlag, 2018.
 * Shostakovich: Suite for Variety Orchestra; Concerto for Piano, Trumpet & Strings; The Golden Age. With Romain Leleu, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt/ Howard Griffiths, 2018.
 * Frédéric Chopin selected piano works – 24 Preludes Op. 28; 5 Mazurkas ; Scherzo No. 2 Op. 31. Issued with No. 353, April 2019, of Amadeus, 2019.
 * Piano works of contemporary classical composers Sviatoslav Lunyov and Alexey Retinsky. Golka, 2021.

Awards

 * 2005 – Second prize and special prize of European Union of Music Competitions at the International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz
 * 2008 – First prize, audience prize and 3 special prizes at the Isidor Bajic Piano Memorial Competition (Serbia)
 * 2011 – Third prize at the First International Piano Competition in Paterna (Spain)
 * 2011 – Second prize at the 58th Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition (Bolzano, Italy, 2011)
 * 2012 – Second prize and audience price at the "Grand-prix animat" (Paris, France)
 * 2013 – Grand-prix 13 International Music Competition in Marocco (Casablanca, Marocco)
 * 2013 – Second prize, European Piano Nights Competition in Luxembourg
 * 2014 – First prize, golden medal and special prize for best performance of commissioned piece XIV Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition (Tel Aviv, Israel)