11/03/2024
✨Today, we present one of our laureates: Ekaterina Bonyushkina. Come and experience an extraordinary live performance at the Gala Concert in Geneva on 22 April 2024, Victoria Hall
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➡Born in 2003 in Moscow, Ekaterina Bonyushkina started playing the piano at the age of 6. In September 2014 she enrolled at the Gnessin Special School of Music (class of Evgeny Talisman, then Boris Berezovsky). She is currently completing the Bachelor Programme at the Haute école de musique de Genève in the class of professor Nelson Görner.🎓
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🎶In 2014, she gave her first recital in Zürich and appeared with an orchestra in the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory and in 2015 participated in the “Herbst in der Helferei” festival in Zürich.
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In summer 2018, Ekaterina has recorded two CDs: one of J.S. Bach compositions, and the other of works by F. Schubert, R. Schumann and F. Chopin.
In July-August 2019, Ekaterina was chosen to take part in Verbier Festival’s Academy for emerging soloists, where she attended solo piano and chamber music masterclasses of J.-E. Bavouzet, K. Hellwig, J. Achucarro, S. Babayan, P. Frank, G. Takács-Nagy, and F. Rados.
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🏆Ekaterina has been a prize-winner of a number of international competitions, including: “Crescendo Genève” in Switzerland, “Vietri sul Mare – Costa Amalfitana” in Italy, “Windsor International Piano Competition” in the U.K., Anna Artobolevskaya Competition in Moscow, “Jeune Chopin” Competition in Switzerland, “Montecatini International Online Piano Competition”, Tiziano Rossetti Online Competition, Grand Piano Competition in Moscow,
“Stefano Marizza” Competition
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Ekaterina has participated in the masterclasses of Prof. Hamish Milne, Rena Shereshevskaya, Janina Fialkowska, Zlata Chochieva, Philippe Cassard, as well as in a number of international festivals: Yuri Bashmet's festival “Elba, Isola Musicale d’Europa” (2017), where she also received the “Prize of the year-2019”, Boris Berezovsky’s Festival in Tatarstan, Elabuga (2021), “Jeune Chopin” Festival in France (2021), International A. Scriabin Festival in Moscow, Russia (2022), “Aisa and friends” Festival in Serbia (2022).
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Ekaterina has played with various orchestras: “Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra”, Ulyanovsk Symphony Orchestra, Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra, Svetlanov State Symphony Orchestra. She is especially fond of Schubert, Beethoven, Rachmaninov and Scriabin.
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📣Tickets are available for purchase now; please visit our website's Gala Concert page for more information: https://billetterie-culture.geneve.ch/selection/event/date?productId=10229161867372