Antonii Kedrovskyi
Conductor & Violinist
Antonii Kedrovskyi was born in 1994 in Kyiv. At the age of five, he began studying violin at the Kyiv Children’s Music School No. 15 in the class of Tetiana Shcheblykina. In 2004 he continued his education at the Mykola Lysenko Kyiv Specialized Music School, studying violin with Tetiana Snizhna. He graduated from the Ukrainian National Academy of Music in 2017 (violin class of Liudmyla Ovcharenko and Dmytro Tkachenko) and completed his assistantship-internship at the same institution in 2019 (violin class of Olha Rivniak). He also studied orchestral conducting under Mykola Diadiura, Alin Vlasenko, and Roman Kofman.
In 2020, Antonii completed his studies at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in the orchestral conducting class of Yuri Alperten. He also participated in Erasmus exchange programs through the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (class of Frank Löhr, 2020) and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (class of Semen Pironkov, 2020).
From 2016 to 2018, he worked as a violinist, and in 2019, as the concertmaster of the second violins of the National Chamber Ensemble Kyiv Soloists. From 2020 to 2022, he served as Assistant Conductor of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine. Since 2022, he has held the position of Conductor of the same orchestra.
His repertoire includes works by G. F. Telemann, J. S. Bach, J. Haydn, W. A. Mozart, L. van Beethoven, F. Schubert, F. Schubert–A. Webern, R. Schumann, J. Brahms, N. Paganini, H. Wieniawski, R. Wagner, G. Bizet, M. Ravel, B. Bartók, J. Sibelius, S. Prokofiev, K. Jannotta, F. K. Gruber–B. Kryvopust, M. Leontovych–B. Kryvopust, V. Barvinskyi–B. Kryvopust, M. Skoryk, V. Hubarenko, V. Bibik, A. Zahaikevych, O. Shmuraк, B. Kryvopust, as well as Ukrainian carols in arrangements by B. Kryvopust and others.
As a conductor and violinist, Antonii Kedrovskyi has collaborated with the National Chamber Ensemble Kyiv Soloists, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine, Symphony Orchestra of the Lviv National Philharmonic, the Estonian National Opera Orchestra, the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, and the Pärnu City Orchestra. He has performed with renowned musicians including Oleh Krysa, Vyacheslav Novikov, Valery Sokolov, Maxim Rysanov, Hugo Ticciati, Tõnu Kaljuste, Solomiya Ivakhiv, Ihor Zavhorodniy, Hlib Sasko, Arsenii Stavytskyi, Roman Lopatynskyi, Anfisa Bobylova, Stanislav Humeniuk, and Andrii Zakhodiakin.
Antonii Kedrovskyi is an official artist of the Vere Music Fund (as both violinist and conductor). With support from the Fund, he participated in an international masterclass led by the distinguished conductor Jorma Panula.
As a chamber musician, Antonii performs in a duo with pianist and harpsichordist Paola Prokopenko. He also collaborates with Ensemble24, a collective of young Ukrainian musicians dedicated to contemporary classical and experimental music. In addition, he is a member of the Danapris String Quartet (together with I. Pavlov, I. Zavhorodniy, and V. Rekalo).
The musician has taken part in the Musikprotokoll festival in Graz (Austria) and in a masterclass in Singapore. His concert tours have brought him to Estonia, Croatia, Poland, Austria, Portugal, Italy, Finland, and Japan.