One of the most prominent Ukrainian pianists of the present day, Professor Oksana Rapita is a laureate of the Mykola Lysenko International Piano Competition (1984), and a top prize-winner at the Paloma O’Shea International Piano Competition (1990, Spain). 

Rapita is one of the best-known and respected pedagogues in Ukraine, serving as Professor at the National Music Academy in Lviv. Over the past two decades she has trained more than 50 laureates of major international competitions. 

Rapita’s piano repertoire includes works from the baroque to the present day. She has performed more than 20 world premieres of works by Ukrainian and foreign composers, taken part in numerous recording projects of music by Ukrainian composers including Stanislav Lyudkevych, Miroslav Skoryk, Yuriy Lanyuk, and Oleksandr Kozarenko, among many others. Rapita tours extensively in Ukraine and abroad, including Austria, Belgium, Germany, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Russia, and Switzerland and collaborates with symphony Orchestras in Ukraine, Poland, and Switzerland. 

She has been a guest artist at such international festivals as Contrasts; Virtuosos Kyiv Music Fest; Kyiv premieres; 2 Days and 2 Nights; Colours of the 20th Century Music, named after I. Stravinsky (Ukraine); Music Days of Kraków Composers, Warsaw Music Meetings’, the Festival of modern music named after W. Lutosławski in Lubin (Poland); Menhir (Switzerland); The F. Schubert Festival (Switzerland-Germany); and “New Itineracy” (Russia- Kyrgyzstan). 

Rapita was born in Ternopil and studied in her native city at the Solomiya Krushelnytska Music Academy with L. Korniy, Lviv National Musical Academy named after Mykola Lysenko with L. Krykh and in Moscow at the Gnessin State Musical College with A. Aleksandrov.