Yaryna Tsarynska
Yaryna Tsarynska (Ukrainian: Ярина Царинська; born 18 June 1993) is a Ukrainian violinist and violin teacher. She has performed with leading orchestras in Ukraine, Poland, Spain, and the United States, and is active as a chamber musician and educator.
Early life and education
Yaryna was born in Lviv to a family of musicians. Her mother, Dzvenyslava Nakonechna, is a violinist, was playing at the Lviv National Opera and teaching at Lviv Music School #5, while her father, Nazar Yasnytskyi, is a violinist with the Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra.
She began studying violin at the age of four with her mother. At seven, she entered the Solomiya Krushelnytska Lviv Secondary Specialized Music Boarding School where she studied under Maria Futorska and Orest Tsisaryk.
After graduating in 2011, Tsarynska entered the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy, where she was accepted into the Academy Chamber Orchestra. She toured extensively in Poland, France, and Ukraine, and participated in chamber music competitions, winning prizes in Odesa, Klaipėda, Filadelfia (Italy), and Cremona.
Work in Ukraine
From 2014, Tsarynska performed with the Vasyl Slipak Opera Studio Orchestra, premiering Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro. In 2016, she joined the Lviv National Opera and later became a member of INSO-Lviv and Virtuosi Lviv.
She performed in numerous opera and ballet productions, including Turandot, La traviata, Swan Lake, Sheherazade, Carmina Burana, and The Rite of Spring. She also collaborated with the Lviv National Philharmonic and toured in Ukraine and Poland under conductor Yuriy Bervetskyi.
International career
After Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Tsarynska relocated first to Poland, where she performed with the Polish-Ukrainian Orchestra, and then to the United States.
In the U.S., she won auditions with the Catskill Symphony Orchestra (New York) and the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra (Pennsylvania), where music director James Blachly appointed her assistant concertmaster. She also collaborated with violinist Curtis Stewart and Broadway star Kathy Voytko in symphonic concerts.
Tsarynska later joined the Firelands Symphony Orchestra (Ohio), the Snowbelt Symphony Orchestr, and performed as a guest with the Akron Symphony Orchestra, Euclid Symphony Orchestra, and The Chagrin Falls Studio Orchestra.
Chamber music and collaborations
She co-founded the U4U band with Ukrainian musicians in Ohio, organizing charity concerts to support Ukraine. She also performs with Alla Boara, the Italian folk ensemble led by percussionist Anthony Taddeo.
Teaching
In Ohio, Tsarynska teaches violin at the Royalton Music Center and the "Love Studio" music academy founded by vocalist Olga Havryliuk in Parma, Ohio. She previously taught at the Music & Arts Center (Parma, Ohio). She also volunteers as a teacher for Ukrainian refugee children.
See also
- List of Ukrainian musicians
- Lists of violinists