Born in
Kharkiv in 1999 Udovychenko started playing the violin at the age of 5, and attended the Kharkiv Specialized Music Boarding School from age 6, with tutor Ludmila Varenina. He studied at the
Folkwang University of the Arts with Boris Garlitsky, first as a young student from 2013, then from 2016 for the bachelor. During
Kronberg Academy's 2017 master classes, he earned the Prince of Hesse Prize. He took master classes with
Ana Chumachenco,
Leonidas Kavakos and
Dmitry Sitkovetsky. He earned prizes at competitions, in 2018 second prize at the
International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition in Hanover, later third prize at the
International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition and first prize at the
Singapore International Violin Competition. , 2024 Udovychenko has studied at the
Kronberg Academy with
Christian Tetzlaff from 2022. He won the 2023
Montreal International Musical Competition and the 2024
Queen Elisabeth Competition. He played Mendelssohn's
Violin Concerto with the
Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine conducted by
Oksana Lyniv at the
Casals Forum of the Kronberg Academy, as part of their spring tour 2024. He plays a 1769 violin 'Ex Kingman' by
Giovanni Battista Guadagnini on loan from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. == References ==