Marianna Prjevalskaya (born 1982 in
Chişinău) is a
Russian concert
pianist and a naturalized
Spanish citizen, having settled in
A Coruña in 1992.
Education
Born to a musical family, Prjevalskaya benefited from early lessons with her mother, Tatianna, her principal mentor for more than eleven years, from age six. She continued her studies at the
Royal College of Music in
London with
Irina Zaritskaya
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Early life and education
Zaritskaya started playing the piano at the Children’s Music School in Kiev until 1953, and subsequently continued her studies at the Central Specia ...
and
Kevin Kenner
Kevin Kenner (born May 19, 1963 in Coronado, California) is an American concert pianist.
Biography
At the age of 17, Kenner was a finalist at the X International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Ten years later, in 1990 he returned to Warsaw ...
. In 2003, Prjevalskaya moved to the
United States where she joined the Toradze Piano Studio at
Indiana University. She holds an Artist Diploma and
Master of Music from the
Yale School of Music, where she studied with
Boris Berman, as well as a
doctorate in Musical Arts from the
Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University, where she studied under Boris Slutsky.
Venues
As a recitalist, Prjevalskaya performed in the US,
Europe, and
Japan
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at venues such as the
Mozarteum in
Salzburg, the
Accademia Santa Cecilia
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in
Rome, the
Teatro Goldoni of
Florence, the Minato Mirai Hall in
Yokohama, the Auditorio Manuel de Falla in
Granada
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, the
Palau de la Música in
Valencia, the
Orpheum Theatre in
New Orleans, and
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and
Steinway Hall in
New York City. Her debut at Carnegie's Weill Hall with Rachmaninoff´s Variations on a Theme by Chopin and the entire Book II of Préludes by Debussy
Prjevalskaya has also appeared at festivals in Europe and the US, such as the
Norfolk and Norwich Festival in the
UK, the Salzburg Festival, the Festival Russo in Rome, the Bologna Festival, and the Bearcat Piano Festival in Cincinnati. Her performances were broadcast by the Lithuanian, Polish Television, and Spanish Television and Radio2 Clásica.
Since her solo debut with orchestra at age nine, Prjevalskaya has appeared with orchestras such as the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Lithuanian Symphony Orchestra, the Rzeszow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Korean Symphony Orchestra, the Granada Symphony Orchestra, the Galicia Symphony Orchestra, and the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra. She has collaborated with conductors such as Ion Marin, Roberto Trevino, Carlos Prieto, David Danzmayr, Stamatia Karampini, Tadeusz Wojciechowski.
Awards
Prjevalskaya's first victory at a piano competition was at the age of fourteen at Marisa Montiel Piano Competition in Linares, a southern town in Spain. Since then, her performances have won her top prizes at over 20 competitions, including the 2014 New Orleans International Piano Competition, the 2013 World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, the 2013 European Piano Competition in Normandy, the 2012 Panama International Piano Competition, the 2011 Jaén International Piano Competition in Spain, the 2010 Sendai International Piano Competition, the 2008 Jose Iturbi International Piano Competition, and the 2007 Paderewski International Piano Competition.
Albums
Her first Compact disc, CD album was released by Naxos Records, Naxos in 2012 and features works by Scarlatti, Haydn, Schumann and Zárate, and her second album, dedicated to Sergei Rachmaninoff, Rachmaninoff, was released in July 2016 by Fanfare Cincinnati.
References
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Russian classical pianists
Russian women pianists
Spanish classical pianists
Spanish women pianists
1982 births
Living people
José Iturbi International Piano Competition prize-winners
21st-century classical pianists
Women classical pianists
21st-century women pianists