Marko Topchii has won more than 80 awards worldwide
in the international guitar competitions in the professional category. Among
them, 34 first places in the competitions in United States, Mexico, Australia,
Japan, China, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia, Germany, Switzerland,
France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Liechtenstein, Poland, Serbia, Bulgaria,
Montenegro, and Ukraine. The most notable prizes are available in the “awards”
section.
Marko actively performs around the world, regularly
gives concerts with the orchestra; he is the desired teacher of master classes
and juror of competitions; he constantly mentioned in the mass media.
Marko is a D’Addario artist since 2012.
Marko discography includes the following albums:
2016 – Marko Topchii – Marko Topchii (Fleur de Son
Classics)
2016 – Marko Topchii – Van Gogh Fire (Contrastes Music
Records)
2015 – Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra – Stars of the
Guitar (Beau Fleuve Records)*
*Disc Two: H. Villa-Lobos – Concerto pour Guitare et
Petit Orchestra
The history of guitars he plays includes:
Andres D. Marvi – The Marvi Classic Cedar (Spain,
2016)
Hong Sik Uhm – Spruce (South Korea, 2015)
Jim Redgate – Double Top Cedar (Australia, 2016)
Karl-Heinz Roemmich – Cedar (Germany, 2013)
Karl-Heinz Roemmich – Spruce (Germany, 2010)
Masaki Sakurai – Model Special Cedar (Japan, 2014)
Mykola Roodenko – Cedar (Ukraine, 2008)
Sakurai Kohno – Model Maestro Spruce (Japan, 2013)
Yuichi Imai – Cedar (Japan, 2010)
Yuichi Imai – Limited Model Spruce (Japan, 2007)
Marko Topchii was born into a family of musicians in
Kiev, Ukraine and is started studying guitar at the age of four.
He is 26 years old and is currently pursuing a
doctorate degree at the Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music in Kiev under the
guidance of Prof. Yuri Alexik, Honored Artist of Ukraine. He completed his
master degree in the National University of Arts in Kharkov in 2011, where he
studied under Prof. Volodymir Dotsenko, Honored Artist of Ukraine.
Awards:
2016:
1st prize – 7th Singapore International Guitar
Competition (Singapore)
1st prize – 23rd International Guitar Competition
“Andrés Segovia” (Linares, Spain)
1st prize – 16th Jan Edmund Jurkowski Memorial Guitar
Competition (Tychy, Poland)
1st prize – 41st Incontri Chitarristici di Gargnano
International Guitar Competition (Gargnano, Italy)
1st prize – 4th Adelaide International Classical
Guitar Competition (Adelaide, Australia)
1st prize – 3rd International Guitar Competition
Maurizio Biasini (San Francisco, CA, USA)
1st prize – 12th International Competition “Young
Virtuosos” (Sofia, Bulgaria)
1st prize – 10th Anniversary Montenegro International
Guitar Competition (Podgorica, Montenegro)
2nd prize, audience prize – 8th Alhambra International
Guitar Competition (Valencia, Spain)
2nd prize – 2nd Viseu International Guitar Competition
(Viseu, Portugal)
3rd prize – 49th Michele Pittaluga International
Classical Guitar Competition (Alessandria Italy)
2015:
1st prize – 7th Daejeon International Guitar Festival
Competition 2015 (Daejeon, South Korea)
1st prize, audience prize – 4th Concours de Guitare en
Pays Tarnais (Albi, France)
1st prize – 4th International Classical Guitar
Competition “Gredos San Diego” (Madrid, Spain)
2014:
1st prize, audience prize, musicians prize – 6th JoAnn
Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition (Buffalo, NY, USA)
1st prize, audience prize – Taiwan International
Guitar Festival & Competition 2014 (Taipei, Taiwan)
1st prize – 3rd Changsha International Guitar
Competition (Changsha, China)
1st prize – 7th International Guitar Competition “Ruggero
Chiesa – Città di Camogli” (Camogli, Italy)
1st prize – 1st Jakarta International Guitar
Competition (Jakarta, Indonesia)
2nd prize – 1st Budapest International Guitar
Competition (Budapest, Hungary)
2013:
1st prize – 12th Annual Texas Guitar Competition and
Festival (Dallas, TX, USA)
1st prize – 6th International Guitar Competition “Culiacán
2013” (Culiacán, Mexico)
1st prize – 1st International Guitar Competition
Victor Pellegrini (Lausanne, Switzerland)
1st prize, Karla Minen prize – 42nd International
Guitar Competition “Fernando Sor” (Rome, Italy)
1st prize – 5th International Guitar Competition
Claxica 2013 (Castel D’Aiano e Montese, Italy)
1st prize – 56th Tokyo International Guitar
Competition (Tokyo, Japan)
2nd prize, Special prize to the best interpretation of
Francisco Tarrega – 47th International Guitar Competition “Francisco Tarrega” (Benicassim,
Spain)
2nd prize – Asia International Classical Guitar
Competition 2013 (Bangkok, Thailand)
2nd prize – 4th International Classical Guitar
Competition “Stefano Strata-Città di Pisa” (Pisa, Italy)
2012:
1st prize – 4th International Guitar Competition “Ferdinando
Carulli” (Rome, Italy)
2011:
1st prize – 12th Guitar Art Competition (Belgrade,
Serbia)
1st prize – 12th Le Concours International de Guitare
“Ville d’Antony” (Antony, France)
1st prize – 6th International Ligita Guitar
Competition (Eschen, Liechtenstein)
1st prize – 13th International Guitar Competition of
Sernancelhe (Sernancelhe, Portugal)
1st prize – 3rd International Robert J. Vidal Guitar
Competition (Barbezieux, France)
2010:
1st prize – 18th Mottola Guitar Competition (Mottola,
Italy)
2nd prize – Calcutta International Guitar Competition
“Nikita Koshkin” (Calcutta, India)
2nd Prize – 14th International Guitar Competition
“Ciudad de Coria” (Coria, Spain)
2009:
1st prize, audience prize, Enrico Mercatali prize –
6th European Classical Guitar Competition “Città di Gorizia” (Gorizia, Italy)
1st prize, audience prize, junior jury prize – 3rd
International Guitar Competition Heinsberg (Heinsberg, Germany)
1st prize – 3rd International Guitar Competition “GuitAs”
(Kiev, Ukraine)
2008:
1st prize – 3rd International Guitar Competition “Dniprovski
suzir’ya” (Ukrainka, Ukraine)
2007:
1st prize, the youngest performer prize – 1st
International Competition “National Philharmonic of Ukraine” (Kiev, Ukraine)