Rei Harada + Sviatoslav Borysov + Radana Foltýnová

Concert as part of the 35th International Music Festival Mladá Praha. Performers: Rei Harada (Japan) - piano, Sviatoslav Borysov (Ukraine) - oboe, Radana Foltýnová (Czech Republic) - piano.

Sviatoslav Borysov (born 2005) comes from the Ukrainian town of Burshtyn. He began studying music at age seven on the recorder, and three years later switched to oboe in the class of Professor Lev Zakopets at the Music Lyceum in Lviv. He is currently completing his bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ostrava in the class of Prof. Dušan Foltýn.

He has won awards at numerous national and international competitions, including the Wind Instruments Competition (Kielce, Poland), the International Competition for Young Performers on Woodwind Instruments (Lviv, Ukraine), Pro Bohemia (Ostrava), and the ČSDN competition (Prague). He has performed as a soloist and with orchestras in Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, and China.

Rei Harada was born in 2005 in Kanagawa, Japan. In 2022 he won first prize at the 18th International Piano Competition in Ettlingen, and in 2023 first prize at the International Anton Rubinstein Competition. In 2024 he placed second at the 19th International Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau and won third prizes at the Brahms International Piano Competition in Detmold and the International Piano and Orchestra Competition Città di Cantù.

As a soloist he has performed in Germany with the Clara Schumann Philharmonic, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, and Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, and has given solo concerts in Japan, Germany, and Italy. He graduated from the Toho Gakuen School of Music with the highest honors. Since 2025 he has been studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris and is also enrolled in the Soloist Diploma Course at Toho Gakuen under Frank Braley and Haruko Ueda. He is a recipient of the Ezaki Scholarship and the Rohm Music Foundation Scholarship.