Violetta Egorova

Violetta Egorova (Russian: Виолетта Викторовна Егорова) born November 16, 1969 in Krasnodar (Russia) is a Russian concert pianist.^[1]

Violetta Egorova
Background information
Born	(1969-11-16) November 16, 1969 Krasnodar, Russia, USSR
Genres	Classical
Occupation(s)	Pianist
Instruments	Piano
Website	www.violettaegorova.com

Biography

Violetta Egorova was born in Krasnodar November 16, 1969, the south of Russia, and began to play and improvise on the piano age of four. At the age of six she made her performing debut on TV playing pieces from “Children’s album” by Robert Schumann. Violetta entered the Moscow Central Special Music School for Gifted Children at the age of six, where she studied with A. Artobolevskaya and Alexander Mndoyants.^[2] She gave her first solo recital in Moscow at the age twelve.

Violetta Egorova is the Winner of the First Prize of Alessandro Casagrande International Piano Competition in Terni,^[3] Italy; G. Viotti International Competition, Italy; Gina Bachauer Piano Competition in USA^[4] and many other international competitions. Her early career was powered by ability, which she had absorbed from her great mentor Lev Naumov,^[5] to make every note sing. In 1991, while still studying under Professor Lev Nikolaevich Naymov at the P.Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory,^[6][7] Art and Electronics a joint Russian-American recording enterprise honored Ms. Egorovas talent by recording a CD with the music of Mozart and Prokofiev in celebration of the anniversary of those two composers birth. Furthermore, Ms. Egorova has recorded several CDs under the various labels, such as Universal Music & V.,^[8] Teichiku Records, Onepoint.fm, Accademia Pianistica Siciliana^[9] and has been featured on radio and television broadcasts in Italy, Turkey, Canada, Egypt, Ecuador, France, and Russia.

Violetta in concert. Bucharest Phylharmony

Ms. Egorova has performed in some of the most famous concert halls in the United States, Italy, France, Switzerland, Turkey, Egypt, Monaco, Romania, Austria, Russia and China^[10]

Violetta is a regular guest artist with many renowned ensembles such as the State Academic Orchestra of Russia, Utah Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin,^[11] Orchestra del Festival Pianistiñî Internazionale di Bergamo e Brescia, Orchestra Sinfonica di Perogia, The George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Cairo Symphony Orchestra, Moscow State Symphonic Orchestra, as well as the orchestra 'Young Russia', and has played under the direction of Pavel Kogan, Joseph Silverstain, Arnold Katz, Epifanio Comis, Mark Gorenstein, Juliano Silvery, Urij Tsuruk, Ilarion Ionescu-Galati, Augustino Orizio and Constantine Orbeljan.

She has also appeared at international musical festivals in Spoletto “Del Due Mondi”^[12] and Sermonette “Pontino di Musica” (Italy), “Sanat Haber” in Istanbul (Turkey), ETNAFEST in Italy, Rachmaninov International festival 2013 in Ukraine, "Grandi Serate Musicali" as well as “Music in Exile”, “Music of 20th Century”, “Christmas at the Kremlin”^[13] and “Russian Winter” in Moscow (Russia), among others.

V. Egorova is a teacher of Piano High Specialization Courses at the Accademia Pianistica Siciliana in Catania.

Ms. Egorovas pianistic repertoire encompasses a wide variety of eras and styles, from concertos and solo monographic works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, and Liszt to those by contemporary composers.^[14]

Through her well-established relationship with Vladimir Markovich, Eva Gosser, Nina Kotova, Vladislav Bezrukoff, Robin Meyforf, Anna Kruger, Astrid Shvinn, Lark String Quartet and other musicians, Ms. Egorova has also built a reputation as world-class chamber musician.^[15]

Awards and outreach

With Chinese sportsman Li Yuanlong

Violetta Egorova has received many awards and made many television appearances

In 1990 Violetta won the second prize on Gian Battista Viotti International Music Competition.^[16]

In 1991 - Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition (Fourth Prize).^[17]

1992 - First Prize on Alessandro Casagrande International Piano Competition.^[18]

In 2006 - Second Prize of the Sigizmund Thalberg International Piano Competition.^[19]

On 11 July 2008, Violetta carried the Beijing 2008 Olympic torch through Harbin with famous Chinese sportsman Li Yuanlong^[20]

Reviews

Violetta Egorova in Bucharest

"...The Russian Pianist Violetta Egorova is an intelligent Creator, and with an absolute Technical superiority in all she can use both skills for her stunning instrument performance. Her dynamic Nuances power is just as phenomenal as the Clarity of the Chords of the fine adjusted Articulation..." - Remy Franck.^[21]

"...Her Mozart sounds as an angel's voice in the church..." - E.Dellavalle (Italy)

"…With the first chords of Sonata by Beethoven Violetta Egorova showed complete penetration into the spirit and sense of the music, that drew to her special attention which did not cease in the course of two hours while the concert lasted" - N.Pulet (France)

"...Egorova's "Erlkoenig" (Schubert-Liszt), here intense and rhapsodic, with some otherworldly soft playing..." - V.Goodfellow ( USA)^[22]

"...pianist’s hands have a language. Romantic expression, impulsive pressure, epic articulation, mincing crispness and daintiness and an abrupt switch to power.... Egorova’s hands spoke beautifully". -S.Belza (Russia)

References

External links

• Official Website of Violetta Egorova
• Accademia Pianistica Siciliana