Marko Topchii was born in 1991 in Kyiv (Ukraine) into a musical family and began studying guitar with Volodymyr Homenyuk at 4. At 21, Marko completed his education at the Kharkiv Conservatory under the instruction of Volodymyr Dotsenko, a renowned musician and artist from Ukraine. He continued with a three-year doctoral program at the Kyiv Music Academy under the guidance of Yuri Aleksik, also a distinguished musician and artist from Ukraine. In 2018, he joined the postgraduate performance program at the San Francisco Conservatory and is currently pursuing a master soloist degree at the Haute École de Musique de Genève under Judicaёl Perroy (France).
Marko has won over 100 awards worldwide in international classical guitar competitions, including 55 first prizes. In 2023, he won the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition, 50th edition, in New York, USA, which will be followed by a 50-concert tour through the USA, Canada, and Mexico, a new solo concert at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, and a new album recording with Naxos.
Marko has performed solo concerts at Carnegie Hall, Yamaha Ginza Hall (Tokyo), Halle Cortot (Paris), and many other renowned venues. He frequently performs with orchestras, and his repertoire includes most of the well-known works for guitar and orchestra by Rodrigo, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Ponce, Villa-Lobos, Brouwer, Abril, Giuliani, Bacarisse, and others.
He uses strings from Augustine and plays guitars by Julian Dammann, Felix Müller, and Jim Redgate.
Topchii will perform at this year's Guitar Conference at the Norwegian Academy of Music.
