Composer
and pianist Vladislav Šarišský

Composer and pianist Vladislav Šarišský was born in Košice in former Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia, in 1984. Thanks to his father, a concert master at the Slovak State Philharmonic Košice and a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Vladislav received predominantly classical music training.

His mother, Lyubov Konstantinovna Naryshkin, Russian by origin, moved with her husband and first son Jaroslav from Moscow to Czechoslovakia. There she taught ballet and later worked as a cultural manager. Vladislav started playing the piano at a very early age and soon achieved musical literacy. Being able to read and write music at the age of 6, he started to work with first notation softwares only a few years later.

In 1998 he enrolled at the Košice Conservatory, where he studied composition under the tutelage of Norbert Bodnár and later piano classes, taught by Peter Kaščák. The following years were full of searching for inspiring moments while fusing jazz, rock, pop music and other music genres and experimenting with art conceptions like performance, event and happening, mainly staying faithful to the principles of The Fluxus Art Movement. Vladislav often found inspiration in the mundanity of everyday life and in relationships between people leading a bohemic lifestyle in the years following the Velvet revolution in 1989. During his studies, he shaped his own musical identity and expression, in which he creates to the present day. There is a number of pieces from his early period that are worth mentioning: 2 piano sonatas, 2 string quartets, DOR – Concert for piano and big orchestra (premiered in Kyiv – 2003), NUEN – sonata for big orchestra, piano and soprano.

After the Slovak premieres of NUEN and DOR (concert for piano) in 2004 with National Symphonic Orchestra of Ukraine, where he played the solo part, he moved to Bratislava and continued to study at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts, tutored by Yevgeniy Irshay.