Ukrainian-born pianist Kateryna Titova, now based in Berlin, has won awards at over twenty international piano competitions. She began her musical education at the age of five in music schools in Kharkiv and Moscow. In 2001, she continued her studies in Germany, first in Münster with Michael Keller and later in Dresden with Arkadi Zenzipér. Further significant steps in her training included the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (UK) with Norma Fisher and the Accademia Pianistica Internazionale “Incontri col Maestro” in Imola (Italy) with Boris Petrushansky. A major influence on her artistic development has been, and continues to be, Igor Blagodatov, a student of Jacob Milstein.

As a soloist and chamber musician, Titova has performed across Europe, Russia, Ukraine, China, and the United States. She has appeared with orchestras such as the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Graz Philharmonic, Prague Philharmonic, a.o.. Her concert tours have taken her to prestigious festivals, including the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Kissinger Sommer, the International Music Festival in Viana do Castelo (Portugal), the Lviv Virtuosi Festival, the “LvivMozArt” Festival, the Palermo Piano Festival, and the Liszt Festival Raiding (Austria).

Kateryna Titova is a guest in renowned concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Semperoper Dresden, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus Vienna, the Stefaniensaal Graz, Lisinski Hall Zagreb, and the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. In recent years, “live recordings” have become increasingly important to Titova, as they capture her vision of lively, authentic musicianship combined with high pianistic standards. Recently, her recording of Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, with the “Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra,” was released, along with the album Bridges, which features works by Ukrainian composers and the “International Symphony Orchestra Lviv,” conducted by Jaroslav Shemet.

Titova’s artistic credo is, “One does not need to abandon or violate the framework of classical interpretation in order to express oneself,” adding, “Within this framework, I find enough artistic freedom to express myself individually and with deep emotion, yet always authentically and musically comprehensible.”

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