Artem Yasynskyy was born in 1988 in Donetsk, Ukraine into a family of classical musicians. At the age of

seven he became a pupil at the Special School for Gifted Children run by the Prokofiev Academy in

Donetsk and gave his first concert when he was eight years old.

A scholarship granted by the Ukrainian Government from 2006 to 2010 enabled him to study at the

Prokofiev State Academy of Music with Albina Oryshchuk graduating in 2010 with Honours.

Artem Yasynskyy moved to Germany in 2010 in order to continue postgraduate piano studies at the

University of the Arts in Bremen with Professor Patrick O’Byrne. In 2018 he completed the degree

of Konzertexamen with Honours and joined the Piano Faculty, where he is currently a Principal subject

Piano Teacher. In 2021 he won the substitute professorship at the University of Arts Bremen.

During his studies in Bremen Artem Yasynskyy received many scholarships by important foundations

such as the London Keyboard Charitable Trust (England), the Clavarte Foundation (Switzerland), the Steinway Award in Hamburg and the Hans and Stefan Bernbeck Foundation, the „Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben“, (Germany), Vere Music Fund (Ukraine).

2021 Artem Yasynskyy won the second prize -"Percy Grainger Second Prize"- at the

Sydney International Piano Competition and five other prizes -  "Rhondda Gillespie Best Performance of a Twentieth-Century work",  

"Best Performance of a work from any period before 1950 by a rarely-played and unduly neglected composer", "Best Program Construction in the Semi Final or Final", "Ignaz Friedman Best Semi Final Recital", "Isador Goodman Best Encore in the Preliminary or Finals".

He also participated with great success in numerous international competitions and music

festivals. In 2015 he was gold medallist at the Cincinnati Piano Competition and prizewinner at the Honens

Piano Competition in Calgary, Canada. He won prizes at the Gian Battista Viotti Competition in Vercelli,

the Sendai International Music Competition and the Gina Bachauer Competition in Salt Lake City, the Top

of The World Competition in Tromsø, Norway, the Horowitz International Piano Competition in Kiev, the Manhattan Music Competition and the First German Competition of Polish Music (Leschetizky Competition).

He performed at numerous festivals such as the "Gina Bachauer Piano Artist Concert Series ", the Honens

Festival in Calgary, Canada, the Paderewski Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina (USA), the “Bremer

Musikfest”, the “Raritäten der Klaviermusik” in Husum, Germany, the “Kiev Musical Summer

Evenings Festival” and many others.

Numerous concert appearances have taken him on tour to Canada, USA, Australia, Japan, South Korea,

Italy, Spain, Greece, Norway, Russia and throughout Germany. He performed in prestigious venues such as

the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (December 2016), the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Hamburg Laeiszhalle, Jack Singer Hall in Calgary, Kyiv Philharmonie, the Sendesaal Bremen, the Bremer "Glocke".

His first CD was released by the Naxos Grand Piano label in 2015 and features works by Józef Hofmann.

His second CD of Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti was released by the Naxos Label in January 2018.