Recent engagements have included appearances with Residentie Orkest, Noord Nederlands Orkest, Orchestre Avignon Provence, Paris Mozart Orchestra at the Berlioz Festival and Junge Norddeutsche Philharmonie. She collaborates with soloists such as Anna Federova, Victor Julien-Laferrière and Yoav Levanon. 

She assisted leading conductors including Paavo Järvi, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Lahav Shani, Maxime Pascal, Debora Waldman and Petri Sakari, and participated in masterclasses with Pablo Heras-Casado and David Reiland.

Her international breakthrough came in January 2024 when she made her debut with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert supporting Ukraine, leading to an immediate reinvitation and the beginning of an ongoing relationship with the orchestra. Two months later, she became a semi-finalist in the 2024 La Maestra International Conducting Competition in Paris, receiving a special mention from the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO). 

A passionate advocate for Ukrainian music and culture, she champions the work of Ukrainian composers including Borys Lyatoshynsky, Maksym Berezovsky and Lesia Dychko, whose music features in her concerts this season. 

Born in Kyiv, Dondyk studied piano and violin before focusing on choral conducting at the R. M. Glière Kyiv Academy of Music. Deeply influenced by Ukraine’s rich choral tradition, she conducted children’s choirs and served as assistant conductor for Andriy Bondarenko’s musical Kai and Gerda at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine.

Following her move to Germany in 2022, she completed her Bachelor in Orchestral Conducting with Alexander Rumpf at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln in summer 2026 and moved to Switzerland to pursue a Masters in Orchestral Conducting at Zurich University of the Arts.