Ermin Jozsef Frantyshkovych (born 1960, Uzhhorod, Hungary) - Ukrainian pianist, musicologist, People's Artist of Ukraine
Biography.
Graduated from the Lviv Conservatory (now the Mykola Lysenko Music Academy), class of Maria Krushelnytska; postgraduate studies at the Moscow Conservatory, class of Yevhen Malinin. Associate Professor of the Lviv Music Academy and the branch of the Donetsk Conservatory in Uzhhorod.
Artist of the Lviv Regional Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. He performs as a soloist and member of chamber ensembles in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, the USA and Canada.
In his performing activities, he focuses on avant-garde music.
He is a regular participant of the Contrasts and Virtuosos festivals in Lviv, as well as the Kyiv Music Fest and Season Premieres in Kyiv, Warsaw Autumn in Poland, a permanent member and chairman of the jury of international and national competitions, including the D.E. Zador Open Piano Competition, Neuhaus Music Meetings, Vladimir Horowitz Competition and many others.
Jozsef Ermin's repertoire covers music from the Baroque to the present day. Recently, he has increasingly focused on interpreting music of the 20th century: On the one hand, his performances of contemporary piano repertoire requiring high interpretive and technical skill (Olivier Messiaen's Vinght Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus, Karlheinz Stockhausen's Klavierstucke cycle), and on the other hand, the most modern works by Ukrainian composers such as Valentyn Silvestrov, Yevhen Stankovych, Yuriy Laniuk, Ihor Shcherbakov, and Oleksandr Shchetinsky, deserve special attention. Many piano works were written and dedicated to him as the first performer. He is also known as an unsurpassed interpreter of works by Alfred Schnittke, Georgie Kurtág, Toru Takemitsu, John Cage, Philip Glass and Morton Feldman.
Awards.
Diploma winner of the Mykola Lysenko Republican Piano Competition.
Revutsky Prize for the promotion of Ukrainian music (1993)
S. Liudkevych Prize (2003)
The recording of Karol Szymanowski's Kurpi songs for soprano and piano made together with Olha Pasichnyk for the Musicon studio won the 1998 Friederik 97 phonographic award in the solo music category.
