Internationally acclaimed pianist Victor Shklyar was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1961. He was highly regarded as a child prodigy, at the age of 8 performing solo recitals featuring works by P. Tchaikovsky, L. van Beethoven, E. Grieg, F. Chopin, and others.

Among his teachers at the Belarus State Conservatory in Minsk were such prominent musicians as Grigory Shershevsky and Igor Olovnikov, who have greatly influenced his unique piano style, based on the effortlessly brilliant technique and measured intelligent musicality.

His interpretations of such masterpieces as Beethoven’s A Major Sonata Op.101, Prokofiev’s Sonata # 6, Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit, Rachmaninoff’s 3rd Concerto was regarded as outstanding by critics and helped him to become one of the winners of the Ciurlionis International competition in Vilnius in 1981.

Victor Shklyar was extensively performing both solo and with the orchestra until the end of 1980th throughout the Soviet Union. Among Victor’s teachers, these years were Evgeny Mogilevsky and Roman Levedev, whose assistant he became in 1984 while earning his doctorate degree at Leningrad State Conservatory.

V. Shklyar’s teaching career started when he still was a Conservatory student in Minsk. In 1996 he established and conducted the bi-annual seminar and masterclasses for the Homeschoolers Association of America in Indianapolis, IN. Today V. Shklyar shares his expertise and devotion to music with his students at the Levine School of Music in Washington, DC.