Vital Stahievitch

Vital Stahievitch was born in 1980 in Minsk, Belarus. He graduated from National Music College (1999) and Belarusian State Academy of Music (2004) with Prof. Zoya Kacharskaya. Later studied at Amsterdam Conservatory (2007, MMus, cum laude, with Håkon Austbø) and Amsterdam University (2009, MA, with Naum Grubert). Vital is laureate of international and national competitions in Minsk, Vilnius, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Taranto, Mariánské Láznĕ, and Utrecht. He performed in most of European countries, and also in the US, Mexico and Japan. Vital gives concerts as a soloist and a chamber musician. He plays, among others, with Wim van Hasselt (trompet), Anna Markova (violin), Tosca Opdam (violin), Ksenia Beltiukova (violin), Dasha Beltiukova (flute), Ruth Willemse (mezzo-soprano). Since 2011 Vital teaches at Amsterdam Conservatory.

Vital has a broad and varied repertoire. Often performs Mozart, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninov. He mostly prefers the period of Romanticism. He also plays Belarusian music of different periods.