The Juilliard School
NATO Summit, Madrid
Conservatoire Rachmaninoff, Paris
Kravis Center
Kyiv National Philharmonic
Eurovision 2017
Orchestras & institutions
Colorado State University Pueblo
Pueblo Symphony Orchestra
Kyiv Symphony Orchestra
Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra
South Florida Symphony Orchestra
Palm Beach Symphony
Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra
Chernivtsi Philharmonic
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of Tennessee
Concerto repertoire performed as soloist
Biography
A Chernivtsi practice room, and everything after
Oleksii Hamov took up the violin at seven in Chernivtsi, western Ukraine. He has since won first prize as a soloist at the 21st Century Art International Competition, earned the concertmaster’s chair of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra by competitive audition, and completed four degrees across two continents — culminating in a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
4
Degrees & diplomas
1st
Prize, 21st Century Art International
60
Countries reading his research
The lost repertoire
The sonatas no one had read in English
His doctoral study at UNLV was the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the violin sonatas of Naum Lapynsky and Mykola Silvansky. It has since been downloaded more than 1,000 times by readers in 60 countries.
The journey
Chernivtsi to the NATO Summit
From a music school in western Ukraine to Moscow, Louisiana, Tennessee and Nevada — and onto the stages of the NATO Summit in Madrid, Eurovision in Kyiv, and the Haydn festival in Eisenstadt.
Career highlights
Rooms that ask for a first violin
01
NATO Summit, Madrid
Performed for the heads of state of the NATO member countries with the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra — Prado National Museum, Madrid, June 2022.
02
Eurovision Song Contest 2017, Kyiv
Performed with NAONI, Ukraine’s national folk-instrument orchestra, at one of the most-watched broadcasts on earth.
03
Concertmaster, Kyiv Symphony Orchestra
The principal first violinist’s chair, won by competitive audition. The orchestra has held the patronage of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 2023.
04
The Juilliard School
Selected for the 2025 Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies — a biennial, invitation-priority programme whose faculty has included Itzhak Perlman and Jaime Laredo.
Engagements
Three ways to work with me
Soloist
Concerto & recital engagements
Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian and Shostakovich concertos; Chausson’s Poème, Dvořák’s Romance, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Programmes built with the presenter, from full concerto to solo recital.
Orchestral leadership
Guest concertmaster & section leader
Held the concertmaster’s chair of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, and served as assistant concertmaster and assistant principal at the Baton Rouge Symphony. Available for guest concertmaster residencies and section leadership.
Teaching
Masterclasses & private study
Former Director of Orchestral Activities at CSU Pueblo and a three-time adjudicator of the Southern Colorado Honor Orchestra Festival. Masterclasses, clinics, and private instruction for advanced students.
Stages
Esterházy Palace, Haydnsaal
Eisenstadt, Austria
Rachmaninoff Conservatoire
Paris
Artemus Ham Concert Hall
Las Vegas
Winchester Dondero Cultural Center
Las Vegas
Hoag Recital Hall
Pueblo, Colorado
Trinity United Methodist Church
Tallahassee
Orchestras
Kyiv Symphony Orchestra
Concertmaster
Pueblo Symphony Orchestra
Concertmaster
Baton Rouge Symphony
Asst. Concertmaster
South Florida Symphony Orchestra
Chernivtsi Philharmonic
Soloist
CSU Pueblo Chamber Orchestra
Director
Research
The Ukrainian violin sonata, in English for the first time
His doctoral dissertation is the first comprehensive English-language study of the violin sonatas of Naum Lapynsky and Mykola Silvansky — repertoire that had never been performed or analysed outside Ukraine. Beyond the history, it gives working violinists phrasing, bowing and ensemble solutions for music the international canon had overlooked.
1,000+
Downloads worldwide
60
Countries and regions reached
Watch
On the stand, and on the podium
Beethoven · Violin Concerto
Concerto in D major, Op. 61
Shostakovich · Violin Concerto No. 1
Concerto in A minor, Op. 77
Chausson · Poème, Op. 25
Soloist with the UNLV Symphony · Virko Baley
Franck · Violin Sonata in A major
Violin and piano · the complete sonata
Dispute of Entangled Lovers
Conductor · world premiere, CSU Pueblo, November 2024
Portfolio
In the studio
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