
Year of birth: 1995
Place of birth: Lviv
Educated in: Antwerp
Place of residence: Antwerp
Markiyan Popil began his piano studies at the age of 5 with his mother, Olena Popil. He continued his education at the S. Krushelnytska Specialized Music School in Lviv, where he was mentored by Lidia Kryh and Oksana Rapita. Markiyan later studied at the M. Lysenko National Academy of Music in Ukraine and the Antwerp Royal Conservatory in Belgium, where he was a student of Sergei Edelmann.
Whitdrawn candidates:
Ekaterina Bonyushkina
Jiarui Cheng
Ziyu Liu
Vitaly Starikov
Dmytro Semykras
Yifan Wu (2008)