Our Lady of Victory Church
1559 Roxbury Road
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2025-05-04 20:00
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Multi-award winner Marko Topchii on his Guitar Foundation of America 1st Prize victory tour
Ukrainian guitarist Marko Topchii makes his central Ohio debut. His prodigious achievements are exemplified by more than 100 awards in international competitions, including 1st prize in the 2023 Guitar Foundation of America International Competition.
Our Lady of Victory Church @ 1559 Roxbury Road, Marble Cliff, Ohio 43212, US
Columbus Guitar Society
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Share Marko Topchii was born to a musical family in Ukraine, in 1991. His prodigious achievements are best exemplified by his numerous competition victories: More than 100 awards worldwide in international classical guitar competitions, 55 of them being First Prizes in prestigious competitions. Marko Topchii has appeared in the world’s most important venues, including the Carnegie Hall in New York, Yamaha Ginza Hall in Tokyo, Salle Cortot in Paris, Grand Hall of the Kyiv Philharmonic, Grand Hall of Liszt Academy in Budapest, among others. He often collaborates with orchestras, having performed more than 15 concertos for guitar and orchestra. Marko started studying the guitar at the age of four, under Volodymyr Homenyuk, and graduated from the Kharkiv Conservatory at the age of 21, where he studied under Volodymyr Dotsenko, an Honoured Artist of Ukraine. He continued with a three-year postgraduate programme at the Kyiv Music Academy under Yuri Aleksik, Honoured Artist of Ukraine. In 2018, he joined the professional studies programme of the San Francisco Conservatory in the class of Judicaёl Perroy, with whom he continued his studies at Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve as part of the Master Soloiste programme.
Sun, May 4, 2025 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Our Lady of Victory Church
1559 Roxbury Road
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