Milana Chernyavska, a German artist with Ukrainian roots. Looking back at her impressive career, she established herself as one of the leading pianists and pedagogues of our times. Her critics agree with Alfred Brendel, who wrote that “One is dealing with the Joy of the whole while listening to Milana Chernyavska”. Since 2009 she has been a piano professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. She is also a professor at the International Music Academy of Liechtenstein and at the Reina Sofia Escuela Superior de Musica in Madrid. With her doctorate theses "The evaluation and pedagogical aspects of the theory of interpretation" she leads a discourse on insights from a perspective of musicology.

Milana Chernyavska played her first concert at the Philharmonic Hall in her native town of Kyiv at the age of seven.

Since then she appears regularly at international festivals and major music centres  around the world. She performed at the Lucerne Festival, Ruhr Piano Festival, Pablo Casals Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwetzingen Festival, and in halls like Vienna’s Musikverein und Konzerthaus, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Herkulessaal and Philharmonic in Munich, Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, and St Petersburg’s Philharmonic Hall, Rudolphinum in Prague, Palais de Beaux Arts in Brussels, Festspielhaus Baden Baden. Her artistic achievements were honored with awards at numerous international competitions in Paris, Florence and Kyiv to name a few. She won a gold medal at the International Piano Competition “Vladimir and Regina Horowitz”.

As a soloist Milana Chernyavska regularily performs with renowned orchestras and is also being praised by audiences and critics for her piano recitals. In 2013 she played at the Ruhr Piano Festival, where she was awarded the prestigious Alfred Brendel Prize. Milana Chernyavska's discography contains more than 20 CDs which have been published with such world leading labels as Decca, Sony, EMI, and others. Her recordings received international prizes like the Diapason d'Or, BBC Music Award and Pizzicato Super Sonic Award. In 2014 she received Germany's most prestigeus media prize - the "Echo Prize" in the category "Classical without Borders". Apart from her solo career, Milana Chernyavska is a celebrated chamber musician. As an ensemble partner she appears regularly with such artists as Lisa Batiashvili, Julia Fischer, David Garrett, Arabella Steinbacher, Sebastian Klinger, the Vogler Quartet, Maximilian Hornung, Daniel Müller-Schott, Susanna Yoko Henkel, and others. She founded the Milander Quartett, which has quickly became an outstanding ensemble. It has been praised by the press with the headlines like “four excellent soloists who have found each other in a perfect harmony” after quartet’s debut in Munich Philharmonic.

Milana Chernyavska is a sought-after teacher at international master classes as well as a jury member at various prestigious piano competitions, such as ARD Competition in Munich, Busoni Competition in Bolzano, Telekom Beethoven Competition in Bonn, Mozart Competition in Salzburg, Santa Cecilia Competition in Porto or the Bluethner Goldaward Competition in Vienna. Her students constantly win top prizes at renown international competitions such as Van Cliburn, Santander Paloma O`Shea, Ferruccio Busoni, Maria Canals, Vendome Prize at the Verbier Festival, Vladimir Horowitz, Los Angeles, Ettlingen, San Marino, Malta and many more.

Milana Chernyavska graduated with distinction from the State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 1990, where she studied with professors Irina Lipatova and Valerij Sagaidachny. In 1994 she received the most notable national music award “Merited Artist of Ukraine”. From 1995 to 1998 she completed the master study of Margarita Höhenrieder and Gerhard Oppitz at the Munich Music Academy. She was influenced by such great muscians and teachers as Alfred Brendel, Dmitri Bashkirov, Ana Chumachenko, from whom she received her vital musical and career influences.