Solomiya Vircikova

Solomiya Vircikova

Waltons New School of Music Faculty

Piano • Recorder

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Solomiya was born in Lviv, Ukraine into a very musical family and started learning the Sopilka (a Ukrainian chromatic recorder) when she was five. A year later she began learning piano and studied both instruments first at the Khodoriv National Music School and then at the College of Music in Drohobych City, where she earned a teaching diploma. She went on to study the Sopilka at the National Academy of Music in Lviv, where she earned both BA and Master’s degrees. In 2008, she moved to Austria to study recorder, recorder consort, harpsichord, basso continuo and historical performance with Yvonne Luisi-Weichsel and Michael Hell in the Institute for Early Music and Performance Practice at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, where she earned a second Master’s degree. While in Graz, she was involved, as a harpsichord player, in numerous chamber music and baroque orchestra projects, including a production of King Arthur by Henry Purcell and John Dryden; she was a harpsichord player in the renowned chamber orchestra Musica Coeli, with which she performed a wide range of music, including J.S. Bach’s St. John’s Passion and G.F. Händel’s Athalia; and she was organist of the Carmelite Monastery of Graz. Solomiya has won several Ukrainian and international music competitions and has performed widely throughout Europe. During a concert tour of Ireland in 2015 with the mezzo soprano Sharon Carty and the Vuenv Recorder Consort, she fell in love with the country and decided to settle here, receiving a third Master’s degree in harpsichord from the Royal Irish Academy of Music while also working as a piano accompanist there. Solomiya has extensive experience teaching piano and recorder to students of all ages and skill levels in both Ukraine and Ireland.

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