Yarema Melnyk

Yarema Lukian Melnyk is an award-winning violinist and a senior of the Solomia Krushelnytska Music Lyceum in Lviv, Ukraine. Playing violin for 10 years, Melnyk has won 1st prize in the 2023 Odessa Music Olymp, 2018 Stankovych Fest, 2017 “Frankove Pidhiria” Festival in Drohobych, and 2nd prize in the 2022 Odessa Music Olymp as well as in the 2021 International Competition “Virtuosi” in Kyiv. In October of 2023, Melnyk became the first prize winner of the Sherer International Competition in the USA. Yarema Melnyk has performed solo concerts in Ukraine and was a member of the International Youth Orchestra in Poland. He was the youngest participant in the “Vivaldi Lunch” project dedicated to 340th anniversary of composer’s birth in 2018. In 2022-23 Yarema participated in multiple concerts in the Solomia Krushelnutska Festival. Recently, together with well-known Ukrainian pianist Iryna Kerchanova, he played all-Ukrainian music recitals in the Lviv Theater “Слово і Голос”, and in Krushelnytska and Franko Museums. Yarema was a concertmaster of the Krushelnytska Lyceum Chamber Orchestra. He is fascinated with Ukrainian folk music, and actively participates in this medium through violin performance and, in the past, dance. In addition to his studies, Melnyk did a substantial amount of volunteering work. In this difficult time for his native country, he was gathering and organizing the delivery of medical and humanitarian aid for soldiers on the front line. Currently Yarema Melnyk is a sophmore at the University of Tennessee, studying with Dr. Miroslav Hristov.