Oleksii Semenenko (20 August 1988, Odesa, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian violinist, winner of national and international competitions.
Oleksiy Semenenko started learning to play the violin at the age of 6. He graduated from the Petro Stolyarsky Odesa Secondary Specialised Music Boarding School (teacher: Zoya Mertsalova) and entered the Nezhdanova Odesa Music Academy. Since 2007, Oleksiy Semenenko has studied at the masterclass of Zakhar Bron and with Harald Schoneweg, professor of chamber music at the Cologne University of Music.
He created the Stolyarsky Quartet, with which he performed in Ukraine, Russia, Switzerland, France, and Malta. He plays a 1720 Dom Amati violin from the Sinfonima Mannheim Foundation, Germany.
In 2015, Oleksiy Semenenko won silver (2nd place) at one of the most prestigious music competitions in the world - the Queen Elizabeth International Violin Competition in Belgium. The competition involved 62 applicants from 20 countries. Only 12 violinists reached the semi-finals, including Ukrainian violinist Vladislava Luchenko.
Victories at competitions
2006 - Grand Prix of the National Violin Competition in Lviv, Ukraine.
2010 - Alois Kottmann Prize at the International Music Festival in Hofheim, Hesse, Germany.
2010 - 3rd prize at the VI Paganini International Violin Competition in Moscow.
2012 - 1st prize at the Young Concert Artists[en] International Auditions in New York and related recitals: Merkin Concert Hall in New York and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
2015 - 2nd prize at the Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition in Brussels
