Victor Radko Shlyakhtenko

Originally from Los Angeles, Victor Radko-Shlyakhtenko (b. 2002) started learning the piano aged five. A prizewinner of several piano competitions, he received second place in the 2019 Waring International Piano Competition and first prize in the 2018 Los Angeles International Liszt Competition; the latter led to his European debut at the Leipzig Gewandhaus. After making his orchestral debut at the age of 12, Victor has collaborated with over a dozen orchestras in concerti by Beethoven, Chopin, Grieg, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Clara Schumann. Victor was a recipient of the U.S. National Chopin Foundation Scholarship from 2016-2019 and a Young Scholar of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation from 2018-2020. In 2023, Victor received second prize in the Lima Symphony Young Artists’ Competition (Bluffton, OH), was a finalist in the Wideman International Piano Competition (Shreveport, LA), and was a grand prize winner of the Delta Symphony Orchestra competition (Jonesboro, AR). Victor is deeply grateful to his music teachers, Stanislav Ioudenitch (piano) and Raphael Jiménez (conducting), with whom he studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio.