Biography

Danylo Semenyuk was born in Ukraine in 2011.
He began studying the cello at the age of seven. Danylo received his early musical education at the Solomiya Krushelnytska Music Gymnasium in Lviv and the Mykola Lysenko Music Gymnasium in Kyiv. From 2022 he continued his musical training in Germany with Professor Christian Brunnert. Currently he is  studying at the Pre-College Cologne at the University of Music and Dance Cologne in the class of Prof. Grigory Alumyan. 

Danylo is a prizewinner of numerous national and international competitions. His awards include the Grand Prix and Audience Prize at the 6th International Strings & Chamber Music Competition in Bucharest, several First Prizes at the German National Competition Jugend musiziert (both solo and chamber music categories), and special prizes at the Mendelssohn Competition and the Beethoven Bonnensis Youth Competition. In 2025, he was awarded the Werner Stiefel Prize at the Carl Flesch Academy in Baden-Baden and became a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

His artistic development has been further enriched through masterclasses with internationally renowned cellists such as Maria Kliegel, Steven Isserlis, Gary Hoffman, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and Ramón Jaffé.

As a soloist, Danylo has performed with orchestras including the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, the Geringas Chamber Orchestra, the Bonn Youth Symphony Orchestra, and the TH Orchestra Cologne. His repertoire includes major works such as the Cello Concertos by Robert Schumann and Joseph Haydn, Max Bruch’s Kol Nidrei, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Andante cantabile. 

Danylo is a member of the German National Youth Orchestra and performs on a Heinrich Sielaff cello (Elbing, 1926), generously provided by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. In addition to his performance activities, he is actively engaged in composition and has a strong interest in learning foreign languages.