Vadym Kholodenko

Vadym Tymurovych Kholodenko (Ukrainian: Вадим Тимурович Холоденко; born 4 September 1986) is a Ukrainian pianist who won the gold medal at the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Also taking home prizes for best performance of the piano quintet and best performance of a commissioned work, Kholodenko highlighted the final round with two concerti with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin. His cadenza in Mozart's Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467, which he wrote on the plane, was praised as "fascinatingly contrapuntal", showing "the guts of a true superartist".