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 Evgenia
Startseva, born in
Kazakhstan, is a pianist with an international concert career both as a
soloist and as a chamber music player. She is regarded as a musician with an
accomplished technique and a wide-ranging command of the tonal resources of
the piano, giving vivid interpretations true to the composer’s style.
She studied in Moscow with Irina Savina, and then graduated from The Russian
Gnesins’ Academy of Music, where her professors were Theodore Gutman and
Ekaterina Derzhavina. During this time she regularly gave concerts in Russia and
Kazakhstan, also taking part in the 1993 Igumnov Piano Festival in Lipetsk.
As a postgraduate, she studied first at the Moscow State Conservatoire with
Professor Mikhail Nikeshichev, then at the Musikhochschule in Saarbrucken
with Professor Robert Leonardy. She has also received lessons from Vassily
Lobanov in Cologne and Roger Vignoles in London.
Evgenia Startseva’s busy concert
schedule has subsequently taken her across the globe to the former
USSR,Germany, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Mexico, South Africa, the United States
and the UK, where she now lives. She has also featured in numerous broadcasts
for ITV (UK), Südwestrundfunk (Baden-Baden), ORF2 (Vienna), Westdeurscher
Rundfunk (Cologne), RTE (Ireland), Saarländischer Rundfunk and Eastern
Kazakhstan Television.
In the year 2000, she made a recording with violinist Nadezhda Korshakova of
works by Mozart, Prokofiev and Schedrin , released by DMK Classics.
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 As a soloist she most recently appeared in
a performance of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with the East Kazakhstan
Akim Symphony Orchestra.
2006 engagements include solo and chamber music programmes
January 22nd
Concert with Maxim Vengerov in the Jewish museum, London
On the Programme: Mozart, Beethoven, Kreisler, Paganini
January 31st
Concert with Maxim Vengerov in the Middle Temple Hall, London
On the Programme: Mozart, Beethoven, Kreisler, Paganini
March 21st
Concert in Colchester (with Yuri Paterson-Olenich)
On the Programme: Haydn; Russian Miniatures: Liadov, Thaikovsky,
Medtner,
Prokofiev.
May 13th Recital with the cellist Alisa
Weilerstein (Luebeck, Germany)
Rachmaninov Sonata.
June 19-21
Little Tour in Wales with mezzo-soprano Rebecca Afonwy-Jones,
including:
Recital in the Criccieth Festival on the 21st
Programme to include Brahms and Schumann
June 22nd
Lower Machen Festival, Wales
Shostakovich ,Piano-Quintet with Bingham Quartet.
June 26th
Saarbruecken, Chausson
August
22nd
Cardiff Millennium Centre - Lunchtime recital (With Yuri Paterson-Olenich)
Medtner, Debussy
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August 26th
Steyning Music society (With Yuri Paterson-Olenich)
Haydn, Medtner, Debussy
August 30th
London, St. Laurence Jewry, next to Guildhall
Music Festival
Lunch time recital with Rebecca Afonwy-Jones (mezzo-soprano) (Brahms,
Elgar,
Mozart etc.)
October 8th
Framlingham
Recital with Jeanine Thorpe (violin)
Brahms, Beethoven, Kreisler, Shostakovich
October 26th
St.Olav's
Lunch Time Recital
Haydn, Prokofiev, Shostakovich etc.
November 3rd
Matlock music society
Haydn, Shostakovich , Prokofiev, Medtner, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky
2007
June 14th, 15th
Preston.
Joint recitals with Yuri Paterson-Olenich. Piano solo and 4 hands (Schubert,
Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Grieg)
June 20th
Criccieth Festival (Wales).
Joint recital with Yuri Paterson-Olenich.
Piano solo and 4 hands (Mussorgsky, Debussy, Schubert, Grieg)
June 30th
Lower Machen Festival: lunch-time recital (with Yuri
Paterson-Olenich) solo and 4 hands:
Shostakovich, Schubert, Mussorgsky
August 1st & 3rd
2 lunch-time
concerts in Welsh Millennium Centre (with Yuri Paterson-Olenich), solo and 4
hands:
Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Schubert, Grieg
September 25th
Caledonian Club, London
Recital with Rebecca Afonwy-Jones (mezzo-soprano) and solo piano (Schumann,
Liadov, Scriabin, Medtner,
Tchaikovsky)
November 12th
Milano, recital with Alisa Weilerstein (cello):
Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Prokofiev
November 22nd
Bergamo (Italy)
Recital with Alisa Weilerstein (cello) (Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin,
Prokofiev)
December 1st
Guildford, recital (with Yuri Paterson-Olenich), solo and
4 hands:
Haydn, Cant, Prokofiev, Liadov, Skriabin, Medtner,
Schubert.
December 2nd
Bognor Regis,
Recital with Nadezhda Korshakova (violin).
Mozart,Brahms & Kreisler
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REVIEWS
“Evgenia Startseva,
internationally renowned as Maxim Vengerov’s Duo partner, opened her treasure
chest of multifaceted sentiments promptly with the contemplative notes of
Nikolai Medtner’s Sonata Reminiscenza from “Forgotten Melodies” (Op.38,
No.1), transforming these emotions into sound with her subtle nuance of
touch. Startseva’s lyrical talent bloomed even more in Shostakovich’s
Preludes Op.34. These most leanly arranged and focussed short pieces demand
plausible characterisations, in which Startseva succeeded eminently, on the
one hand with a tender tone, supple fluidity, a flexible differentiation of
the individual voices, but also with wit, tongue-in-cheek piquancy and
dance-like verve on the other hand…A superior and singular
achievement” Saarbrücker Zeitung 15.01.2005
"With Evgenia Startseva at
the piano one penetrates into the rich thematic world of the musician of
Hamburg (Brahms), of whom she draws a musical portrait with great expressive
efficacy." L'Unione Sarda
"....Sensitive to nuance and
the music's songlike qualities" The Independent
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