Marko Topchii

Marko Topchii was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, to a musical family. He started to play the guitar when he was four. He graduated from the Kharkiv Conservatory and went on to continue with a three-year postgraduate program at the Kyiv Tchaikovsky Music Academy with Yuri Aleksik. In 2018 he joined the professional studies program at the San Francisco Conservatory in the class of Judicaёl Perroy. Marko has won top prizes in more than 100 awards worldwide, among them 2nd prize in the Baltimore International Guitar Competition and 1st prize in the Guitar Foundation of America Competition.