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Konstantin Krasnitsky, absolute winner, laureate of the 1st prize and special audience award at the 1st International Piano Competition EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association) "Svetislav Stančič" in Zagreb in 1999. At the 3rd International Piano Competition "S.V.Rakhmanjinov" in Moscow in 2002, he won the 4th prize and the title of laureate. He was the winner of the special fund award of the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko in 2002.

At the Belarusian State Academy, Konstantin Krasnitsky earned the title of "Master of Arts" where he continued to work as a pedagogue since 1999.

He soon became a visiting professor at the Academy of Arts of Anyang Normal University in China, an assistant professor at the Belarusian State Academy, and a full professor at the Academy of Arts and Culture of the J. J. Strossmayer University in Osijek. Many of his students have been awarded at international competitions and festivals.

Krasnitsky is engaged in pedagogical work and actively gives concerts. He has performed in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, the USA, China, Tajikistan, Germany, Austria, Turkey, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and with leading orchestras in Belarus, Croatia, and Russia.

He has performed at numerous piano music festivals in the Belarusian cities of Minsk, Brest, Mogilev, and Grodno; at the festival "Minsko proljeće - 1999", "Minsko proljeće - 2003", "Art - for children and youth", at concerts of first prize winners with the Belarusian State Philharmonic, as well as at leading festivals in Croatia: "Piano-Fortissimo" in Zagreb, "Varaždin Baroque Evenings", "Osijek Summer of Culture", "Senj Concert Evenings", "Milko Kelemen Days", "Dubrovnik Summer Festival", "May Music Memorial "Josip Štolcer Slavenski", "Osijek Museum Music Wednesday", "Eltz Concert Cycle", "Rombergor's Musical Evenings", "Summer Evenings of the Lun Olive Groves" and others.

He premiered several compositions by Croatian composers Davor Bobić, Josip Štolcer Slavenski and Sanja Drakulić, and when he performed Kelemen's Tango at the festival "Milko Kelemen Days", the composer himself was so delighted and amazed that in the middle of the concert he asked Krasnitski to immediately repeat the performance once more!

He has recorded for the radio. He has appeared on TV shows in Belarus, Russia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

"A benevolent giant, he even resembles a young Rachmaninoff a bit .... Krasnitsky has a sound of pure beauty - rich and soft, which he achieves with astonishingly measured means." (25.04.2002., "In Search of New Stars", "The Independent", London).

"... In the performance of the young Belarusian pianist I heard a whole series of works by S.V. Rachmaninoff, including his Second Sonata, and this performance was one of the most impressive of all that I have ever heard." (5.6.2004., from a letter, Dmitry Bashkirov, Minneapolis, USA)