Antonii Baryshevskyi was born in Kiev. At the age of seven he began to learn the piano. In 2007 he entered the Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music of Ukraine (class of Valery Kozlov). He is currently undertaking an assistant traineeship at the National Academy of Music of Ukraine and studying at the Йcole Supйrieure de Musique in Paris (class of Marian Rybicki). He has taken part in master-classes given by Alfred Brendel, Daniel Pollack and Lily Dorfman. At the age of sixteen he was a prize-winner of the All-Ukrainian programme Man of the Year, and one year after that he took part in a youth concert of Radio Europe in Munich. Since 2012 he has been a soloist with the National Philharmonic of Ukraine. Prize-winner at numerous international competitions, among them the competition Performer-Composer in St Petersburg (1st prize, 2004), the International Piano Competition in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz in Kiev (2nd prize, 2005), the International Piano Competition in Jaйn (1st prize, 2009), the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition (2nd prize, 2011) and the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv (1st prize, 2014). Regularly gives recitals and performs with symphony orchestras in Ukraine and internationally. Has toured to France, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Iceland, Russia, Belarus, Serbia, Romania, Poland, Spain, Germany, Israel and the USA. Has produced recordings on radio and TV in Ukraine, Serbia, Italy, Denmark and Spain. Featured in a recording of music for a film produced by the Dovzhenko Film Studios. Naxos has released a solo disc by the pianist.