Chipak - Kushnir

Wednesday, 08 September 2010 08:18
Published in Piano

When in 1998 Olha Chipak and Oleksiy Kushnir met first during their academic studies at the Lviv Music Academy in the Ukraine, it was like magical gravity. A moment later their successful, creative musical collaboration began, they won e.g. the highest award at the international contest “Rome-98”. But this achievement hasn’t been enough for them. They were keen on expanding their artistic horizon and went on studying with the German piano duo Hans-Peter and Volker Stenzl at the “Hochschule für Musik und Theater” in Rostock. In 2005 Olha Chipak and Oleksiy Kushnir completed their studies with a graduate recital.


My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it,
and you simply take as much as you require.


~Edward Elgar