Taras Yaropud studied at Khmelnytskyi College of Music with Valentyna Shchur, and at the National Music Academy of Ukraine in the class of Bohodar Kotorovych and Yaroslava Rivniak. He interned at Northern Kentucky University and Nederlandse Strijkkwartet Academie in Amsterdam and won third prize at the Mykola Lysenko International Music Competition in 2007.

He was a member of the Kyiv Soloists chamber ensemble before becoming the concertmaster. Yaropud has taught at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine since 2006. He is the founder and second violinist of the Collegium Quartet, and concertmaster of the Kyiv Virtuosi chamber orchestra. He performs in concert both as a soloist and an ensemble player.