Dmytro Omelchak is an international outstanding Ukrainian guitar player, born in a small town of
Shchastya in the east of Ukraine, where he got his first guitar lesson at the age of eight.
In the course of getting his education in Ukraine at Luhansk Music College and at
I.P. Kotlyarevsky Kharkiv National University of Arts, he could improve his play under
the influence of such teachers like Mykhail Tushchenko and Yurii Fomin.
Being a DAAD scholarship holder (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst –
German Academic Exchange Service), he continued his studies in Germany at Münster
Music School with Prof. Reinbert Evers. Since 2015, Dmytro has been completing
his course of learning with Prof. Tomasz Zawierucha at the Folkwang University
of the Arts.
During his studies, Mr. Omelchak had the privilege to attend master classes of great
performers of our time, such as: Jens Wagner, Olaf van Gonnissen, Hubert Käppel,
Thomas Müller-Pering (Germany), Roman Viazovskyi (Ukraine-Germany), Zoran
Dukic, Dejan Ivanovic (Croatia), Pedro Mateo Gonzales, Marco Socias (Spain),
Lorenzo Mikeli (Italy), Allan Neave (Scotland), Judicael Perroy (France), Roberto
Aussel (Argentina).
Dmytro is a prizewinner of various international competitions, including:
2010 International Guitar Competition “Tallinn 2010”, Tallinn, Estonia (1st Prize and a Special Award of the Estonian Radio)
2011 III International Guitar Competition “Gitas”, Kiev, Ukraine (1st Prize)
2014 V International Guitar Competition “Gredos San Diego”, Madrid, Spain (2nd Prize)
2015 XXIV International Guitar Competition “Guitar Talent”, Brno, the Czech Republic (1st Prize)
2016 Folkwang International Guitar Competition, Essen, Germany (1st Prize)
2016 GWK Music Award (GWK Förderpreis Musik), Münster, Germany
2016 XV International Guitar Competition “Jose Tomas-Villa de Petrer”, Petrer, Spain (3rd Prize)
2016 V International Guitar Competition, London, England (2nd Prize)
2017 XII International Guitar Competition “Twents”, Enschede, Netherlands (1st Prize)
2018 Nordhorn International Guitar Competition, Nordhorn, Germany (1st Prize)
2018 Asia International Guitar Competition, Bangkok, Thailand (2nd Prize)
2018 Hannabach International Guitar Prize, Augsburg, Germany (1st Prize)
2019 I Braga International Guitar Competition, Braga, Portugal (1st Prize)
2019 Folkwang Prize, Essen, Germany
He plays concerts as a soloist worldwide, namely in Ukraine, Estonia, Russia, Spain,
Portugal, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, China, Great Britain.
