
The creation of the National Chamber Ensemble “Kyiv Soloists” is the fulfillment of the dream of the famous violinist, professor, People’s Artist of Ukraine Bohodar Kotorovych (1941-2009). The collective, recognized by listeners and critics in different countries of the world, unites talented young musicians of Ukraine. Most of them are laureates of national and international competitions and represent the school of B. Kotorovych. Currently, the artistic director of the collective is B. Kotorovych’s student Dmytro Tkachenko.
The high poetic spirit of the artists, combined with the avant-garde inherent in Ukrainian musical culture, conquered the world audience in such famous halls as the Luxembourg Palace and UNESCO in Paris, the Commissariat Opera in Berlin, the Grand National Philharmonic in Warsaw, Flagey in Belgium, Radio Kulturhaus and the Liechtenstein Castle Concert Hall in Vienna, Esplanade in Singapore, and at the World Exhibition Expo (Japan). The ensemble is an invited participant of the international festivals named after D. Oistrakh (Pärnu, Estonia), contemporary music “Warsaw Autumn” (Warsaw, Poland), contemporary music in Krakow (Poland), classical music in Ruhr (Germany), symphonic music in Algeria, Gabala Festival in Azerbaijan and “Musical Premieres of the Season”, “Kyiv Music Fest”, “Gogolfest”, “New Music”, “ChamberArt Music” in Ukraine.
For its active creative activity in representing Ukrainian performing culture in the world, the ensemble “Kyiv Soloists” received the status of “Ambassador of Ukrainian Culture” of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. In 2010, by decree of the President of Ukraine, the collective was awarded the title “National Chamber Ensemble”.

Bohodar Kotorovych (1941-2009) is an outstanding violinist, People’s Artist of Ukraine, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko State Prize. Professor, head of the violin department of the P.I. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, artistic director and conductor of the State (now National) Chamber Ensemble “Kyiv Soloists” from 1995 to 2009.
His rapid career began while studying at the Moscow Conservatory (class of the famous teacher Yu.I. Yankelevich): while still a student, Bohodar Kotorovych became a laureate of a number of the most prestigious international competitions, including the Niccolo Paganini competitions in Genoa and the George Enescu competitions in Bucharest.
For several years he worked at the Sydney Conservatory (Australia) as a visiting professor.
In 1995, he founded the International Competition of Young Violinists in Kharkiv.
The maestro is the only foreign violinist in the world who had the honor of playing the legendary PAGANINI violin outside of Italy. In May 1999, the mayor of the Italian city of Genoa brought to Kyiv a violin by Niccolò Paganini “Canon” by Guarneri del Gesù on a special flight for two concerts by B. Kotorovich, which were held with extraordinary full houses in the best halls of the city.
Professor Kotorovych B.A. was constantly invited to the jury of the most famous international competitions (ARD in Munich, N. Paganini in Genoa, P. I. Tchaikovsky in Moscow, K. Nielsen in Odense, B. Britten in London, etc.) and headed the Ukrainian International Violin Competition named after M. Lysenko in Kyiv, and in 2004 he became the artistic director of the BrittenKyivFestival.
Bohodar Kotorovych is a worthy representative of the founders of the Ukrainian violin school, David Bertier, Yakov Magaziner, and Petro Stolyarsky. Graduates of Kotorovych’s class are bright musicians who continue his traditions in different countries of the world. Among them are A.Komisarova (Denmark), M.Kotorovych (Ukraine), O.Kotorovych (New Zealand), V.Kuznetsov (Poland), T.Pecheniy (Croatia), B.Pivnenko, K.Stetsenko (Ukraine), D.Tkachenko (England), S.Shott (Ukraine) and others.
According to the results of his creative activity in 1999 and 2000, Bohodar Kotorovych became twice a laureate of the prestigious All-Ukrainian award “Person of the Year”. He was awarded the Order “For Merit” of the III degree.