Inesa Sinkevych
Manhattan School Of Music Piano Deepartment Co-Head
Laureate of the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition
Dr. Inesa Sinkevych is the Co-Head of the Piano Department at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. A laureate of the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, she has garnered critical acclaim and top honors in numerous prestigious international competitions.
Ukrainian-born, Dr. Sinkevych has won first prizes at the Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona and the Concurso Internacional de Piano Premio “Jaén” in Spain. She is also a prizewinner at the Minnesota International Yamaha Piano-e-Competition, the Vianna da Motta and Porto International Competitions in Portugal, the Casagrande International Competition in Italy, the Panama International Piano Competition, as well as the Cidade de Ferrol and Spanish Composers competitions in Spain.
Dr. Sinkevych has been praised for her “intense, thrilling, and sophisticated playing” (General-Anzeiger, Germany) and her “rich cantabile” (Ritmo, Spain). She has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras such as the Israel Philharmonic, the Minnesota Symphony, the Gulbenkian Orchestra of Lisbon, the Gran Canaria Philharmonic, the Porto Symphony Orchestra, and the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra of the Canary Islands.
Her performance venues include world-renowned halls such as the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, Purcell Room at London’s Royal Festival Hall, Orchestra Hall in Minnesota, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Hong Kong City Hall, and the Great Hall of the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon. She has also participated in international music festivals across France and Spain.
Recent performances include appearances at Merkin Concert Hall in New York, the Bar Harbor Music Festival, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, and a concert tour of China, with performances in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenyang, and Guangzhou.
Dr. Sinkevych began her piano studies with Victor Makarov at the Kharkov Special Music School in Ukraine. She later studied with Alexander Volkov at the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. With the support of a scholarship from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, she continued her studies in the United States with Solomon Mikowsky, earning her Master of Music degree at the Chicago College of Performing Arts and her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Manhattan School of Music.
She joined the piano faculty at the Manhattan School of Music in 2008, where she now serves as Co-Head of the Piano Department.