Yurii Pikush was born in 1998 in Dnipro City, Ukraine. He was trained as a mandolin player at the Dnipro Music Academy (2013-2017), and also, graduated from Kyiv National Music Academy of Ukraine with a Bachelor’s, then a Master's diploma of Composition (class of prof. Oleksandr Kostin - 2017-2022; prof. Mykola Kovalinas - 2022-2023).

Prizes:

All-Ukrainian Borys Liatoshynskyi Composition Competition: diploma of the IV prize and laureate of the Walter Feldman Special Prize (Kharkiv, 2018). Resident of the Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi Scholarship (Lviv, 2021). Winner of the Second Myroslav Skoryk All-Ukrainian Composition Competition (Lviv, 2023). Composer of the Muse Project by Le Vivier Universitatre (Canada) and Kyiv National Music Academy of Ukraine (2023), Transhumanism Multimedia Project (Kyiv, 2023).

Laureate of the Levko Revutskyi State Prize (2024).

Member of the National Composers Union of Ukraine.

Yurii Pikush has participated in numerous master classes of new music - International Master Classes COURSE - Lviv, 2019, 2020; consulted with such famous composers as Simon Vosecek, Tamara Friebel, Anna Korsun, Slawomir Wojciechowski, Sergei Meingardt, Etienne Hann and others.
During the composition master classes within the “Warsaw Autumn” festival, he took lessons with Yannis Kyriakides and Sky Macklay (Poland, 2023). A participant in the contemporary music projects of “New Music Center” (Kyiv, 2023).

Yurii's works have been performed at well-known international festivals of contemporary music: 19. Neue Tagen Musik Bamberg (Germany, 2023), "Usedomer Musikfestival" (Germany, 2023), “Kyiv Music Premieres of Season” (2024); "Contrasts" (2019, 2020, 2021, 2023), "Kharkiv Music Fest" (2018, 2023), "New Music in Ukraine" (2018), etc.

Among the performers are the National Soloists Ensemble “Kyiv Camerata”, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Kharkiv Music Fest Quartet, Nostri Temporis (Ukraine), Recherche Ensemble (Germany), Proton Ensemble Bern (Switzerland), Kateryna Boichuk, Viktor Rekalo, and others.
For Yurii, music is a continuous process of exploring and forming new visions. A special area in the process of composition for him is the search for non-standard means of sound production to implement his musical ideas.

Selected works:

"Variations" for solo piano (2018), "Split" for solo cello (2020), “Noon” for violin, cello and electro guitar, string quartets: "Contrapunctum" (2022), "Radio Quartet" (2022), piano quintets: "#melancholie" (2019), "Sempre" (2020), Quintet for flute oboe, clarinet, cello and double bass (2019). For ensemble: "Summa Tempologica" (2021), "Protean" for flute, oboe, clarinet, harp, piano (2023), “Be a Cycle” for flute, violin, double bass, piano; “Terra Clastri” for string quartet and harpsichord; and orchestral: "Summa Temporum" for chamber orchestra (2021), Concerto for violin and orchestra (2023), Concerto for cello and orchestra "Concellastra" (2023); “Escape Velocity” for chamber orchestra (2024); chamber opera "Josephine" after the novel by Franz Kafka (2020).