Ukrainian violinist Dima (Dmytro) Tkachenko started playing the violin and piano before the age of 6. He studied at the Lysenko Music School in Kyiv, graduating to the National Music Academy of Ukraine studying under Bogodar Kotorovych and Yaroslava Rivniak. In 1998 he was invited to London to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under Yfrah Neaman. In 2002 he was made a fellow of the Guildhall School and until 2008 was working with Krzysztof Smietana and David Takeno. He was awarded the Guildhall School Concert Recital Diploma (Premier Prix) and was a prize-winner at several international violin competitions including the Carl Nielsen, Lysenko, and the Wronski Solo Violin Competitions.
Mr. Tkachenko has toured extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas and has been broadcast on Ukrainian and Polish radio and TV, Danish and Latvian radio, and on BBC Radio 3 in the U.K. He has performed at such venues as London’s Wigmore Hall, Barbican, and Cadogan Hall; Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw; Toronto’s Roy Tomson Hall; Cologne Philharmonie; Tokyo Opera City; Teatro La Fenice; Liszt Academy Hall in Budapest; Berlin Konzerthaus and Philharmonie Chamber Music Hall; Megaron in Athens; Palau de Musica in Barcelona; and Auditorio Nacional in Madrid.
Mr. Tkachenko’s recent performances include appearances with the MAV (Budapest), Bilkent (Ankara), Presidential (Ankara), Chile, and Qingdao Symphony Orchestras, Athens State Orchestra, the Istanbul, Liepaja (Latvia), and EuroAsia (Astana) Symphonies, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, the Warsaw and Cracow Philharmonics, tours in Spain and Germany, and recitals in the U.K., Ukraine, France, Japan, Singapore, the U.S., Italy, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, and North Macedonia. He performed Stankovych’s Concerto No. 2 throughout the U.S. and Canada in a tour with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine.
Apart from his busy concert career, Mr. Tkachenko teaches at the National Music Academy of Ukraine, gives masterclasses (recently in Japan, Korea, Singapore, China, Turkey, Malta, Poland and Lithuania), goes on jury to several international competitions, was the co-founder and artistic director of the Benjamin Britten International Music Competitions in London and the artistic director of the Lysenko International Music Competition in Kyiv, and since 2023 serves as the artistic director of the National Chamber Ensemble Kyiv Soloists.
Dmytro Tkachenko will perform with TŌN on January 24, 2026.
Bio: Sep 2025