Katia Skanavi

Katia Skanavi ( Russian Екатерина Владимировна Сканави ; born December 11, 1971 in Moscow ) is a Russian pianist.

The granddaughter of the director Alexander Sarchi attended the school for the gifted in Moscow and played Dmitri Kabalewski's Third Piano Concerto under the direction of the conductor at her first concert at the age of 12 in the Great Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory . In 1989 she won several prizes at the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition ; this was followed by concert appearances at the Musikverein Wien , the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Suntory Hall in Tokyo. In 1994 she won the Maria Callas Competition in Greece and in 1997 she was a finalist in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition .

In addition, Skanavi completed her training at the Paris Conservatory , the Moscow Conservatory and later at the Cleveland Institute with Sergei Babayan . She has given recitals and concerts in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Moscow and Paris, in New York, Ravinia, Washington, Cincinnati, Dallas, Indianapolis and San Francisco, and has performed with the German Symphony Orchestra and the Orchester National de France under Kurt Masur , the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra under Oleg Caetani , the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Dmitri Sitkovetsky and the Brussels Philharmonic under Michel Tabachnik and has worked as a chamber musician with Yuri Bashmet , Gidon Kremer and Truls Mørk , among others . She has recorded solo works for piano by Peter Tschaikowski , Sergei Rachmaninow and Robert Schumann on CDs . Your Chopin -Rezital live CD has been prepared by Gramophone Magazine as Classical Recording of the Month award.

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SURNAME	Skanavi, Katia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Сканави, Екатерина Владимировна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 11, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow