Dariia Lytvishko

Dariia Lytvishko was born in Lutsk in western Ukraine in 1995. She received her first piano and organ lessons there. She has been living in Germany since 2014. She completed her professional training at the Volyn State College of Culture and Arts in Lutsk. She then studied church music at the University of Church Music Herford-Witten, where she received her bachelor’s degree in 2019 and her master’s degree in 2022. Lytvishko is now an internationally sought-after organist, performing in renowned churches and at major organ festivals throughout Europe. She has performed at Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral in London, the Temple protestant de l’Oratoire du Louvre in Paris, the Pantheon in Rome and at the Hauptkirche St Michaelis at the Hamburg Organ Summer. Her concert tours have taken her to France, England, Italy, Belgium, Monaco, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, Romania, Spain, Ukraine, Canada and the US. In addition to her concert activities, she works as a church musician in the Emmaus parish and at St Mary’s Church in Herford. She also conducts the Quartett-Verein in Bad Oeynhausen. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, she has played in more than 40 benefit concerts, raising almost 70,000 euros for aid organisations.