Marko Topchii

Marko Topchii was born in 1991 in Kyiv, Ukraine, to a family of musicians. Нe started studying the guitar at the age of four with Volodymyr Homenyuk and later with Borys Belsky.

He graduated from the Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts under Prof. Volodymyr Dotsenko, Merited Artist of Ukraine in 2011. In 2016, Topchii completed a three-year postgraduate program at the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv under Prof. Yuri Aleksik, Merited Artist of Ukraine.

He completed the professional studies program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under Prof. Judicaël Perroy in 2019. Topchii entered the master soloist programme at the Geneva University of Music under Prof. Judicaёl Perroy in 2022.

As a multi-award-winning classical guitarist, orchestra soloist, and concertist, Marko has won over 100 awards worldwide in international classical guitar competitions in the professional category. Among them, 57 first places.

In the fall of 2018, he appeared on the cover of issue No. 391 of the Classical Guitar Magazine: Marko Topchii, Perennial Prize Winner.^[1] The issue also included the interview: Marko Topchii, Inside the World of One of the Most Successful and Widely Travelled Competitors.

In 2017, he appeared on the cover of the issue No. 12 of Polish classical guitar magazine Sześć Strun Świata (Six Strings of the World).^[2] The issue also included an interview.

Marko often performs with orchestras, having more than ten concertos for guitar and orchestra in his repertoire.^[3] He has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Salle Cortot (Paris), Yamaha Ginza Hall (Tokyo), and Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow). Topchii was an official D'Addario artist from 2012 to 2023.^[4] Topchii is an official Augustine Strings artist since 2023.^[5]

Topchii has won many awards worldwide in the international classical guitar competitions in the professional category.

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