“Playing a C. Bechstein grand piano is like visiting an old, trusted friend who you can rely on in all situations.”
Kateryna Titova
Ukrainian-born pianist Kateryna Titova lives in Berlin and has won prizes at twenty international piano competitions. She began her training at the age of 5 at music schools in Kharkov and Moscow, and from 2001 she studied in Germany, first in Münster with Michael Keller and then in Dresden with Arkadi Zenzipér. Other important stages in her musical education were the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK) with Norma Fisher and the Accademia Pianistica Internazionale “Incontri col Maestro” (Imola, Italy) with Boris Petrushansky. Igor Blagodatov (student of Jacob Milstein) had and continues to have a significant influence on her artistic development.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Titova has performed throughout Europe, Russia, Ukraine, China and the USA with orchestras such as the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the National Theater Prague, the Kiev Symphony Orchestra and the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra. Concert tours have taken the artist to the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Kissinger Sommer, the International Music Festival in Viana do Castelo (Portugal), the Lviv Virtuoso Festival and the “LvivMozArt” Festival, the Palermo Piano Festival and the Liszt Festival Raiding (Austria), among others.
Kateryna Titova has performed in renowned concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie and the Laieszhalle Hamburg, the Semperoper Dresden, the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus Vienna, the Stephaniensaal Graz, the Lesinsky Hall Zagreb and the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. Her CD recordings as a soloist, chamber musician (with oboist Ramon Ortega) and with works by Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Scriabin have been released by the labels “Sony Classical” and “Genuin”, among others.
In recent years, “live recordings” have become increasingly important for Kateryna Titova, as they underline her artistic ideas of lively music-making coupled with perfect pianistic standards. She recently released Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor op.16 with the “Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra”, as well as the album “Bridges” with works by Ukrainian composers and the “International Symphonic Orchestra Lviv” under the direction of conductor Jaroslav Shemet. Kateryna Titova has had close artistic ties with the Liszt Festival Raiding for several years and will provide significant pianistic impetus as “Artist in Residence” from the 2024 season.
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“The personal, very special sound character of the Bechstein grand piano is suitable for piano literature from all eras and styles. The pleasant touch gives me security and stability and at the same time maximum flexibility.”
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photo © Uwe Arens, Alpenbazi and Edgar Wiersocki
