Oleksii Ivanchenko

Dr. Oleksii Ivanchenko is a lecturer and accompanying coordinator in the Keyboard Performance Department at the Frost School of Music. A Ukrainian-born pianist, Dr. Ivanchenko has won top prizes in nearly thirty national and international competitions and performed as soloist and with orchestras in Europe, Asia, South Africa, and North America. In addition to his appearances as a solo artist, Dr. Ivanchenko has established a reputable career as a collaborative pianist. He has played with such eminent musicians as Trudy Kane, Mikhail Kopelman, Jennifer Grim, Viktor Uzur, Steven Mead, Rie Suzuki, Dale Underwood, Ross Harbaugh, Aaron Tindall, Jodi Levitz, and George Taylor.

In 2006, Dr. Ivanchenko moved to the United States to continue his studies at Rowan University as a full scholarship student of Veda Zuponcic, where he earned both BM and MM degrees in Piano Performance. In 2012, he was awarded a teaching assistantship and a full scholarship at the Frost School of Music where he pursued his doctoral studies in Piano Performance and Pedagogy under the guidance of Professors Santiago Rodriguez and Naoko Takao. Upon his graduation in May 2015, Dr. Ivanchenko was given the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award from the University of Miami. 

Dr. Ivanchenko began his piano studies at the age of five with his mother, Oleksandra Ivanchenko. He was soon accepted into the Lysenko Special Music School in Kiev, as a pupil of Natalya Tolpygo. In 2003, he was awarded the Presidential Scholarship of Ukraine to pursue his studies at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy in Kiev, where he received his first Bachelor and Master of Music degrees.