Jury Piano - Ekaterina Derzhavina Ekaterina Derzhavina studied piano with Juri Polunin, Valeria Polunina and Vladimir Tropp in Moscow. In 1989 she was the Third Prize Winner of the All-Russian Piano Competition and received the special prize for the best interpretion of a romantic piano work. Moreover, she won the first prize of the Johann Sebastian Bach International Piano Competition in Saarbrücken, Germany, in 1992. From 1993 to 2006 Ekaterina Derzhavina taught piano at the Gnessins Academy of Music and since 2003 she has been teaching at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. Her international concert activity stretches from Russia to Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan and New Zealand. The Russian pianist performed at numerous world-class music festivals such as the Mosel Festwochen, the Thüringer Bach Wochen, the Viersener Klaviersommer, Raritäten der Klaviermusik, Russische Musik im Exil (Germany), the Festival de Lanaudière (Canada), the Bratislava Music Festival (Slovakia), the Akaroa Festival (New Zealand), La Folle Journée (France and Japan), the Piano Festival in La Roque d’Anthéron (France), and the Medtner Festival (Moscow), for the organization of which she was responsible together with the pianist, Boris Berezovsky, too. Radio broadcasts with Radio Moscow were followed by a lot of recordings with the Saarländischen Rundfunk (Saarbrücken), the Westdeutschen Rundfunk (Cologne), the Deutschland Radio (Berlin) and the CBC (Montreal). Her recording of the Bach Goldberg Variations 1999 received the „Choc“ award from the French magazine „Le Monde de la Musique“. For her recent CD including works of Nikolai Medtner („Phoenix-Edition“ 2008) Ekaterina Derzhavina was awarded the „Diapason d’Or“ Prize in January 2009. The German label „Profil“ released her CD set of Haydn’s complete piano sonatas February 2013. Ekaterina Derzhavina held master classes in Russia, Germany (Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Cologne, 2010, and Musiktage Merzig, 1996 – 2007), USA (Yale University, 2008 and 2013), Canada (University of Quebec, 2004), New Zealand (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 2010 and 2011) as well as in Japan.
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