A biography of pianist, composer, music educator and teacher Wadym Kipa is presented. He was born on May 13, 1912, in Kyiv, Ukraine, and graduated from the Kharkiv Music School in Ukraine. He continued his studies at the Kharkiv Conservatory of Music and at the Kyiv Conservatory of Music, where he was later a faculty member. Kipa and his family left Europe in 1951 and moved to the United States. He died in New York on August 31, 1968.