Pianist Viktoria Shvets received her musical education at the National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music of Ukraine in the class of Prof. Olga Liforenko. Since 2012 she has been working at the Academy as a concertmaster of the solo singing department. She actively performs as a soloist and with the orchestras of Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Odessa, Chernivtsi Philharmonic Orchestras, accompanies singers, violinists, cellists, and is a prize-winner of many Ukrainian and international competitions. Victoria and Xenia have a long-standing creative friendship and have worked together on a number of concert programmes. Viktorija comes to the "Art of Song" festival from Switzerland, where she fled after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.
