Dekhtyaruk was a student of the Demutsky State Music School in Uman (Central Ukraine), when he was discovered by the Foundation in 2005 and selected as the first laureate of the Cherkassy Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts. By virtue of this, he was given the opportunity to perform at Apogee's 2006 Odessa International Music Festival and was named an Apogee Merit Scholar by the festival jury. This award enabled Dekhtyaruk to continue his studies at the Stolyarsky State Music School: the leading music school in Ukraine.
Trumpeter Bogdan Dekhtyaruk was a student of the Demutsky State Music School in Uman (Central Ukraine), when he was discovered by the Foundation in 2005 and selected as the first laureate of the Cherkassy Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts during the 2005/2006 academic year by a joint Apogee-Demutsky jury. He also was selected to receive this award for the 2006/2007 academic year which followed, by virtue of which he was given the opportunity to perform as an Apogee Award laureate at the Foundation's Odessa International Music Festival in 2006.
As a result of this opportunity, Dekhtyaruk also received an Apogee Merit Scholarship award enabling him to continue his studies at the Stolyarsky State Music School: the leading music school of its kind in Ukraine.
Dekhtyaruk also is the beneficiary of Apogee's Inventory Programs, and is now performing on a Bach Stradivarius 180S43 Silver Professional Bb Trumpet selected and acquired for his use by the Foundation.
Among many honors received by Dekhtyaruk have been the Grand Prize at the XVI All Ukraine Competition Dnepr Winds - 2006 and of the 2006 Starchenko All Ukraine Competition for Young Wind Instrumentalists, as well as of The 2005 International Competition "XXI Century Art" Soloists in Kiev, Ukraine. In 2006, Bogdan additionally was awarded the Grand Prize at the International Brasswind Competition in Ternopyl and then also was awarded the highest prize at the New Names All-Ukraine Competition in 2007.
