Oksana Mits is a pianist, accompanist, and musicologist associated with Kharkiv National University of Arts named after I. P. Kotlyarevsky. A graduate of the university’s special piano department, she studied under Marianna Cherniavska and later became a leading accompanist of the university’s department of orchestral wind and percussion instruments in 2011. In 2021 she was named a senior lecturer in the department of chamber ensemble, and in the same year she earned the degree of Candidate of Art Studies (Doctor of Philosophy).
Mits studied piano at the Kharkiv Secondary Specialized Music Boarding School and graduated from Kharkiv National University of Arts in 2012 with a specialization in piano. From November 2012 to July 2015, she continued her training in an assistantship-internship program at the university’s special piano department. During her student years she distinguished herself as one of the notable young pianists of the department, winning international competitions held within the forum “Musical Performance and Pedagogy” in Madrid in 2010, Lonigo in 2011, and Vienna in 2011.
As a performer, Mits has pursued an active concert career as a soloist, ensemble player, and accompanist. Her appearances have included solo performances and concerts with orchestra in Kharkiv and the surrounding region, as well as in Lviv, Dnipro, Kyiv, Sumy, Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava, Zaporizhzhia, Feodosiia, Minsk, Vienna, Madrid, Oviedo, El Escorial, Gijón, and Lonigo. While still a student, she also performed in Spain, Italy, and Austria, and in 2010 she was invited to advanced training courses at the Summer School of the Prince of Asturias Music Foundation in Oviedo, Spain, where she took part in master classes and performed both solo and in duo with a Spanish violinist.
Her scholarly work has focused especially on Moritz Moszkowski. In 2021 she successfully defended a dissertation titled “The Work of M. Moszkowski in the Context of Piano Art of the Second Half of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries.” Her publications examine Moszkowski’s concert-piano style, piano miniatures, pedagogical system for developing piano technique, and the Spanish theme in his works. In 2022 she published a monograph based on this research.
Mits is a laureate of many international and all-Ukrainian competitions and festivals, has taken part in international master classes, and was a trainee at the Royal Academy of the Prince of Asturias Music Foundation in Oviedo, Spain, in piano and chamber ensemble. She has also been repeatedly invited to serve on juries for all-Ukrainian competitions. For her artistic work she has received diplomas and commendations from the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and from a number of Ukrainian city councils and cultural departments.
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