Ekaterina Vladimirovna Derschavina

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Ekaterina Derschavina (2013)

Jekaterina Vladimirovna Derschavina ( Russian Екатерина Владимировна Державина , English transcription Ekaterina Derzhavina; born September 8, 1967 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) is a Russian pianist and piano teacher.

Life

Derschavina attended from 1981 the music school at the Gnessin Institute Moscow in the classes of the piano teachers Juri Polunin and Valerija Polunina . In 1986 she became a student at the same institute with Vladimir Tropp . In 1989 she won 3rd place at the 8th Soviet "All-Union" piano competition in Kislowodsk and won the special prize for the best interpretation of a romantic piano work for the performance of Robert Schumann's Kreisleriana . In 1992 Derschawina prevailed against 90 pianists from 30 countries and won first prize at the “JS Bach” international piano competition, which was still held in Saarbrücken at the time.

She taught at the Gnessin Institute from 1993 to 2006, then until 2016 at the Moscow Maimonid Academy in the Faculty of World Music and has been a member of the Department of Historical and Contemporary Performance Practice at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory since 2003 . Derschawina gives concerts all over the world and has taken part in festivals.

Darschavina's recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations , recorded in 1994 and 1997 and re-released by Arte Nova in 2008, was described by MusicWeb International as perhaps the best available piano version of the work, Classics Today called it a reference recording . In 2016 the album JS Bach: The French Suites, BWV 812-817, recorded in 1996, was released ; French Overture, BWV 831; Aria Variata, BWV 989 and 2017 the album Alexey Wladimirowich Stanchinsky: Piano Works .

Between 1993 and 2008 Derschawina recorded all of Joseph Haydn's piano sonatas in studios 1 and 3 of the Saarländischer Rundfunk , which were published as a complete edition in 2013 by the Profil label. In 2018 the complete recording of Nikolai Medtner's compositions for piano and violin with the Russian violinist Nikita Boriso-Glebski was released in March 2017 from the chamber music hall of Deutschlandfunk . Derschawina's album Nikolai Medtner: Forgotten Melodies; Mood pictures; Trois Pièces , published in 2008 by Phoenix Media, was awarded a Diapason d'or in December 2008 and Derschawina was named “grande prêtresse de Medtner” (High Priestess Medtner).

repertoire

Her repertoire ranges from Johann Sebastian Bach , Joseph Haydn , Tchaikovsky and Stantschinski to contemporary composers.

Web links

Commons : Jekaterina Derschawina  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Державина Екатерина Владимировна. Moscow Conservatory , accessed December 26, 2017 (in Russian).
  3. ↑ Завершается Фестиваль французской музыки. Музыкальный центр (MuzCentrum.ru), February 25, 2011, accessed November 27, 2018 (in Russian).
  4. ↑ Prism Music. Author: Portrait of the pianist Ekaterina Derzhavina. Norddeutscher Rundfunk , accessed on November 20, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Ekaterina Derzhavina. Cologne University of Music and Dance , accessed on November 27, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Winners. International Piano Competition "Johann Sebastian Bach", Würzburg, accessed on November 27, 2018 (English).
  7. ↑ Kirk McElhearn: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - Goldberg Variations, BWV 988. MusicWeb International, accessed on November 27, 2018 (English).
  8. ↑ Jed Distler: Under the Radar: Ekaterina Dershavina's Goldberg Variations. Classics Today, accessed November 27, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Ekaterina Derzhavina. Alexey Wladimirowich Stanchinsky: Piano Works. Allmusic , accessed on November 27, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Matthias Kornemann: Ekaterina Derzhavina. Haydn, matured for a long time. Rondo , May 2013, accessed November 27, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Ekaterina Derzhavina. Haydn: The Piano Sonatas. Allmusic , accessed on November 27, 2018 .
  12. ^ Uwe Krusch: The Russian-romantic world of Nikolai Medtner. Pizzicato - Remy Franck's Journal, May 5, 2018, accessed November 27, 2018 .
  13. ^ Diapason d'or. Diapason, December 2008, accessed November 27, 2018 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Derschavina, Ekaterina Vladimirovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Державина, Екатерина Владимировна (Russian); Derzhavina, Ekaterina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian pianist and piano teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Soviet Union