Biography

Dmitri Klimenko is an outstanding young pianist whose career is swiftly developing now. He performed already in many famous concert halls such as the Wiener Musikverein, the Big Hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Erbarsaal in Vienna, Salle Cortot in Paris and many others. Dmitri is often guest at many famous music festivals like „Music summer in Korneuburg“, Chopin festival in Gaming in Austria, festival “Mardis d`Animato” in Paris and others.

The young Ukrainian was born in 1987 in Donetsk and got his first piano lesson as he was 6. First recitals followed soon and showed his musicality and deep understanding of music. 

At the age of 7 he entered the special school for gifted children by the Donetsk S. Prokofiev Conservatory. Then studies at the Donetsk S. Prokofiev State Music Academy followed and were finished in 2009 with the Master-Diploma with honours.  After that he attended postgraduate courses at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Class of Prof. Jan Gottlieb Jiracek von Arnim), studied with Prof. Wolfgang Watzinger and Thomas Kreuzberger at the Vienna Music Seminar and Prof. Dmitry Bashkirov at the International Summer Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg. Since September 2013 Dmitri continues his education at Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with Prof. Marian Rybicki.

His repertoire includes almost all piano concerts of Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Gerschwin. All of them Dmitri performed already with different orchestras - the Orchestra of the Donetsk, Lugansk and Chernovtsy Philharmonic Societies, with the Tyrolean Youth Orchestra, with the Künstlerorchester Vienna and the Symphony Orchestra Mödling.

Dmitri is regularly playing recitals in Ukraine, Russia, Norway, Italy, Spain, Austria and France.

He is a winner of many international competitions in Italy, Ukraine, Russia and Austria among them - IV Karamanov International Competition of Young Pianists in Simferopol, 2003 (I Prize), IV Rachmaninov International Competition of Young Pianists in Tambov, 2004 (I Prize) and others.