He won second prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 2015, and has performed in Europe and the U.S. as a soloist and chamber musician.
[1] He studied violin and chamber music, first in Ukraine,[2] then at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Zakhar Bron and Harald Schoneweg,[2] graduating with the concert exam.
[1] Semenenko, a holder of both German and Ukrainian passports, played a concert in Kyiv on 23 February 2022, the day before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
[3][5] He made it as far as Lviv by train;[6] there he played a charity video concert on 23 March 2022, together with pianist Antonii Baryshevskyi and others, to help colleagues who were bombed out.
[8] He and Baryshevskyi accompanied the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine's tour of the United Kingdom in October 2023 as alternating soloists.