Vitalij Kuprij

Vitalij Kuprij (; born July 7, 1974) is a Ukrainian-American pianist, composer, music teacher, and keyboardist for Ring of Fire and Trans-Siberian Orchestra. He resides in Reading, Pennsylvania and sometimes even at The Blue Falls Grove when he is not touring. followed by performances at the Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall.
After performing his Carnegie Hall solo debut, Kuprij was featured in a two-page spread in the New York Times written by arts and entertainment writer Dan Wakin.
During the summer of 2007, Vitalij appeared at Mexico's "Music Fest" in Mexico City.
Vitalij is negotiating with the Kyiv Philharmonic to record the Rachmaninoff 2nd Piano Concerto.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
In 2009, he joined the progressive rock band Trans-Siberian Orchestra as a pianist/keyboard player and has been hired back for each subsequent tour ever since. He has toured extensively with TSO in North America and Europe. Vitalij appears on TSO's first EP, , released in 2012, playing piano on "Winter Palace" and "Time You Should be Sleeping". Vitalij received a writing credit for "King Rurik", a song from Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Letters from the Labyrinth album. He was also featured as additional keyboardist of Savatage during its 2015 Wacken reunion show.
2Cellos
In 2017, he joined 2Cellos as keyboardist for their 2017-2018 North American tours.
Compositions
When he is not touring, Vitalij works on writing and composing his own piano concerto. He plans to dedicate his concerto to the memory of his late father and mentor who was a professor of trombone and music theory in a conservatory in Ukraine.
Discography
Solo albums
*High Definition (1997)
*Extreme Measures (1998)
*VK3 (1999)
*Works of Liszt and Chopin (2001)
*Forward and Beyond (2004)
*The Modern European Tradition (2005)
*Revenge (2005)
*Glacial Inferno (2007)
*Glacial Inferno & Revenge (compilation, 2007)
*12 Months of the Year (2008)
*Journeys (2017)
*Bridges (with Gary Ginsberg, 2019)
*Progression (2020)
Greg Howe
* Ascend (1999)
Ferrigno•Leal•Kuprij
*Promised Land (2003)
Ring of Fire
*The Oracle (2001)
*Burning Live in Tokyo (2002)
*Dreamtower (2003)
*Battle of Leningrad (2014)
Artension
*Into the Eye of the Storm (1996)
*Phoenix Rising (1997)
*Forces of Nature (1999)
*Machine (2000)
*Sacred Pathways (2001)
*New Discovery (2002)
*Future World (2004)
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
* (2012)
*Letters From the Labyrinth (2015)

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