Ekaterina Litvinzeeva

Elisabeth Furtwängler and Jekaterina Litwinzewa (Clarens, 2012)

Jekaterina Litvinzewa ( Russian Екатерина Литвинцева ; * 1986 in Magadan ) is a Russian pianist.

Life

Yekaterina Litvinzewa was born in Magadan in 1986 and spent her childhood and youth in the Arctic Circle (Russia). She started playing the piano at the age of four. She received her first musical training from 1994 to 2001 at the children's music school in Anadyr , the capital of the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug . When Litvinzeeva was 15 years old, the family moved to Moscow . Litvinzewa studied from 2002 to 2006 at the Chopin State Music School in Irina Gabrielova's piano class and received a diploma with distinction. From September 2006 she was a student of the Maimonides Classical Piano Academy in the piano classes of Viktor Derewjanko, Alexander Mndojanz and Jekaterina Derschavina. In November 2011 she began studying artistic instrumental training with a major in piano at the University of Music and Dance Cologne in the piano class of Nina Tichman and received her diploma (“Master of Music”) with distinction in July 2013. In 2014 Litwinzewa moved to the University of Music in Würzburg and studied in Bernd Glemser's “master class” . Litwinzewa also received a special stamp from teaching with Robert Kulek, Rudolf Kehrer and Andrzej Jasiński . During the summer of 2007 and 2008 she took part in the “Tel-Hai International Masterclasses” in Israel and studied with Dmitri Bashkirow , Nikolai Petrow , Viktor Derewjanko, Emanuel Krasovsky, Jerome Rose, Jose Ribera and Aaron Goldstein.

Awards

Yekaterina Litvinzewa received several diplomas and prizes from 1996, first at the age of 10 at the national competition "Young Talents of Chukotkas" in Anadyr, later in 2008 at the piano competition as part of the "Tel-Hai International Piano Masterclasses" ( Sde Boker , Israel), and most recently in 2014 as the winner of the “Concorso Internationale per Pianoforte e Orchestra Città di Cantù” in the section “Classical Piano Concerts ” for her interpretation of the piano concerto KV 414 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and as a prize winner of the “Concours International de Piano Son Altesse Royale la Princesse Lalla Meryem ”in Morocco .

Concert activities

Jekaterina Litvinzewa has given piano recitals in Russia, Germany , Romania , Israel and Italy . Her solidarity with the conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwängler was expressed in a recital at the Furtwängler house in Clarens in 2012 in the presence of Elisabeth Furtwängler, where she also included piano works by Wilhelm Furtwängler on the program. She played u. a. with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra of the Slobodkin Theater and Concert Center under the direction of Leonid Nikolayev, the State Academic Chamber Orchestra of Russia under the direction of Konstantin Orbelian, the Symphony Orchestra of the Chopin Music School (conductor Vladimir Ryzhaev), the student orchestra of the Maimonides State Classical Academy (conductor Vladimir Kern ), the Symphony Orchestra of Jerusalem under the direction of Vag Papian, the State Philharmonic Arad (Romania) under the direction of Dorin Frandes, the State Philharmonic Banat in Timisoara under the direction of Horst-Hans Bäcker , the Filarmonica Mihail Jora Bacau under the direction of Ovidiu Balan and the Klassischen Philharmonie Bonn under the direction of Heribert Beissel , with whom she performed in November 2012 in the Konzerthaus Berlin , the Liederhalle Stuttgart , the Beethovenhalle Bonn, the Meistersingerhalle Nürnberg, the Funkhaus des NDR Hannover and the Hamburger Musikhalle .

Recordings

In 2013 Litwinzewa recorded the piano concertos KV 271 and 414 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a live recording with the Classical Philharmonic Bonn under the direction of Heribert Beissel for CD. Another CD, which was made in January 2014 in cooperation with Saarländischer Rundfunk , is dedicated to piano works by the young Rachmaninoff. She also recorded piano pieces by Wilhelm Furtwängler for Saarland Radio. In 2015, a live recording of Chopin's piano concertos 1 and 2 was released, again with the Classical Philharmonic Bonn under the direction of Heribert Beissel.

Web links

• Website about Ekaterina Litvinzeeva