Ethella Chupryk

After finishing musical school (at Judith Gergely’s class) and musical college (at Mary Valkovsky’s class), in 1986 she entered the Mykola Lysenko Conservatory in Lviv; she became an internationally renowned pianist under the supervision of Maryna Kryh., piano professor of the Conservatory. Then she took master classes at the Moscow Conservatory with pianist teachers such as Yevgeny Malinyin, Vera Gornostayeva, Vladimir Viardo and Vladimir Krajnyev.

In 2018 – 2019 years, she gave concerts in Madrid, Barcelona, Brussels, Kiev and Kharkov, hosted by the Hungarian Embassy and Consulate General.

In 1994 she was awarded a gold medal and prize at the International Competition for Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz in Kiev. Then she received an honorary bursary from the Richard Wagner association exhibitioner (Bayreuth, Germany, 1998).

In 1994, in recognition of this artistic work, she was named “Honoured Artist of Ukraine”, in 2016 – “Folk Artist of Ukraine”.

Etelka became laureate at several international competitions: 1988 - Lysenko Competition in Kyiv (First Prize) 1990 - Rakhmaninov Competition in Moscow (Third Prize) 1991 - Liszt Competition in Budapest (Third Prize).

Shortly after starting her studies in Lviv, Chupryk began to compete in a number of international piano competitions. In 1988 she took first place at the Mykola Lysenko International Music Competition. In 1990, she traveled to Moscow to compete in what was then known as the All-Union Rachmaninov Competition and the precursor to the Sergey Rachmaninov International Piano Competition. Here she took third place. In September 1991 she was awarded third place at the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in Budapest. .

Ethella Chupryk (Ukrainian: Етелла Чуприк; Hungarian: Etelka Csuprik; 20 June 1964 – 25 December 2019) was a Ukrainian pianist and Professor of piano at the Mykola Lysenko National Music Academy in Lviv, Ukraine.