Antonii Baryshevskyi (Ukraine)
4th Isidor Bajic Piano Memorial Laureate for C category
Antonii Barychevskyi was born in 1988 in Kiev – and started play piano at Children Music School 14 at the age of seven. In 2007. he have finished Kiev N. Lysenko Secondary Special Music School and is following by studies now at the P. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine with prof. Valerie Kozlov.
He was attended masterclasses with prof. Daniel Pollack and Lily Dorfman. Antonii became prize – winner of 13 national and international piano competitions, „Remember Enesku“ (Buchurest) - IV prize, I International S. Richter Piano Competition, on the motherland of pianist ( Zhitomir) – I prize, VII International Piano Competition in memory of V. Horowitz (Kiev) – II prize and Special EMCY „Art for music“ prize, IV International Piano Competition „Composer-Performer“ (St. Petersburg) – I prize. He was a Sholarships holder and laurate of the Ukranian Program „A man of the year 2005“.
Antonii has performed in defferent concert halls as soloist and with orchestras in Ukraine, Russia, Belorus, Serbia, Germany, Spain, USA. He took part at the Euro Radio Youth Concert in Munich in 2006. He was recorded on CD, Radio and TV of Ukraine.
Stefan Rakić (Serbia)
4th Isidor Bajic Piano Memorial Laureate for A/B category
Stefan Rakić was born in Šabac on March 24, 1989. At the age of six, he began his music education at the Mihailo Vukdragović Music School in Šabac in the studio of Professor Goara Lazić. He is currently enrolled in the final year of his undergraduate studies, where his teacher is Professor Svetlana Bogino, a former student of the esteemed pianist and teacher Lev Oborin.
He has taken part in numerous master classes led by Professors Svetlana Bogino, Vladimir Ogarkov, Konstantin Bogino, Jean Efflam Bavouzet, Diane Andersen, Kemal Gekić, Avedis Kouyoumdjan, Martin Hughes. He has performed in the most prestigious halls in the country, a list that includes the City Hall in Novi Sad during the Novi Sad Summer Music Festival and the Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment in Belgrade, as well as in Italy, Slovenia, and Austria.
He has won numerous prizes at national and international competitions, including, among others, the Special Prize and the Laureate title at the State Competition (Belgrade, 2003, and 2005), the First Prize at the Gradus ad Parnassum Competition (Kragujevac, 2003), the Special Prize at the Serbian Music Schools Festival (Čačak, 2003); the First Prize at the Festival Musica in Laguna International Competition (Chioggia, Italy 2004), where he also performed with an orchestra for the first time, the Special Prize at the Festival of Young Pianists (Šabac, 2006), the First Prize, the Special Prize Olivier Messiaen, and Laureate title for A and B category at the 4th Isidor Bajić Piano Memorial (Novi Sad 2008). He also advanced into the semi-finals of the Internacional Competition in San Marino (Italy, 2008).
In 2009, he won a scholarship to attend the Sommerakademie PragWienBudapest (Austria), where he was awarded a Special Prize for Best Perfomance at the master class.