Vitalii Kyianytsia
(1991) is a Ukrainian pianist and composer. He was born in Kiev, where he began his musical education at the age of six. He has lived in Germany since 2017.

He studied in Frankfurt am Main with the Ensemble Modern and in Stuttgart with Nicolas Hodges. Vitalii Kyianytsia has won prizes at several international competitions, including the Orléans Piano Competition (France), the UNISA International Jazz Piano Competition (South Africa), the Transatlantyk Instant Composition Competition (Łódź, Poland) and the ACC Composition Competition (Gwangju, South Korea).

Vitalii Kyianytsia is regularly invited to important contemporary music events, e.g. the Lucerne Festival Alumni Ensemble, the Mixtur Festival (Barcelona), the Impuls Festival (Graz) and the Klangspuren Schwaz (Austria). He also received an invitation from the Ensemble Modern Frankfurt. His empathy, his exceptional technique, his passion for improvisation and his compositional skills inevitably led him to his true love: jazz.

In 2021, he founded the Vitalii Kyianytsia Jazz Trio, which regularly gives concerts at home and abroad.

His first jazz album Last Day of Spring (2022) with bassist Johannes Fink and drummer Mathias Ruppnig is undoubtedly a preliminary highlight of his work.