Violinist Aleksey Semenenko has appeared in many countries as a recitalist and concerto soloist. He is a fresh representative of the long violin tradition of his home city of Odessa, Ukraine.
Semenenko was born in Odessa in 1988. Semenenko's father, a clarinetist in the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra, pushed his son to follow a musical career, but Semenenko resisted for a time, committing himself fully only after his father's death. After taking up the violin at six, Semenenko studied for 11 years with Zoya Merzalova, also the teacher of Yuri Bashmet. After just a year of stud...