Yuri Dikiy

Yuri Borisovich Dikiy is a Soviet and Ukrainian musician, pianist, and educator who served as a professor of the special piano department at the A. V. Nezhdanova Odessa State Musical Academy until 2009. He is the Head of the D. Oistrakh and S. Richter Mission, a position he has held since its founding in 2003, and is a member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine. His contributions to culture have been recognized with municipal awards such as "Your Names, Odessa" and the Grand Prix of the International Duke de Richelieu Competition in Germany in 2022.

Dikiy graduated from the P. S. Stolyarsky Special Music School in 1963 and subsequently from the Odessa Conservatory with honors, studying piano under Professor L. N. Ginzburg (a student of Heinrich Neuhaus) and composition. He completed his assistantship-internship at the Kiev Conservatory under Professor T. P. Kravchenko in 1973. His professional development included internships at the Carl Maria von Weber College of Music in Dresden, as well as the Moscow and Kiev Conservatories. He comes from a musical family; his grandfather was a soloist with the "Dumka" National Academic Chapel.

His academic career at the Odessa Conservatory began in 1973, where he served as Dean of the Piano Faculty (1976–1980) and Vice-Rector (1980–1984). From 1984, he focused on teaching, training over fifty students and international interns, many of whom became competition laureates. In October 2009, Dikiy left the academy in protest against corruption and the degradation of the educational system. He has since continued his professional and public-educational work through media and state institutions.

As a performer, Dikiy has given solo concerts and performed with orchestras internationally, maintaining creative ties with prominent musicians like Emil Gilels and Sviatoslav Richter. He is a prolific organizer of cultural events, including the "Richterfest" and "Oistrakh-Assembly" festivals, and has initiated the installation of memorial plaques for legendary musicians in Odessa. He is also the author and participant of over 200 television programs and numerous publications advocating for the preservation of musical heritage.

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