Viktoria Postnikova

Viktoria Postnikova
Piano
Acclaimed by critics all around the world as
one of the greatest pianists of our time,
Viktoria Postnikova can look back on a
thirty year career which has taken her to
every international centre of music from
Moscow to London and from New York to
Tokyo and Buenos Aires.
She was born in Moscow of musical parents
and began to study the piano at the age of
three. Four years later she made her public
debut playing Mozart’s A Major Piano
Concerto.
Between 1962 and 1967 she studies at the
Moscow Conservatory, where her teachers
included the famous Soviet pianist and
pedagogue Yakov Fliyer.
Postnikova’s…interpretation
was beautiful, with soft and
refined gestures and poetically
shaped phrasing.”
Jónas Sen,
Sen, Morgunbladid
“
After winning an impressive series of
international prizes at the Warsaw
International Chopin Competition, the Leeds
Piano Competition, Lisbon International
Vianna da Motta Competition and the
Tchaikovsky
Competition,
Viktoria
Postnikova was launched on a brilliant
career which led to her appearing in all the
world’s leading concert halls and to
performing and making recordings with the
most prestigious orchestras and ensembles.
Viktoria Postnikova also devotes part of her
time to chamber music and among the great
moments of her career are the recitals which
she gave with Yehudi Menuhin.
In addition to numerous tours in Europe and
Japan with the Soviet Philharmonic
Orchestra, Viktoria Postnikova has also
appeared with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
in Australia and the Far East, National
Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Hong Kong
Philharmonic and with the Vienna
Symphony Orchestra on tour in South
America.
In 2004 Viktoria Postnikova was awarded the
"Peoples Artist Award".
Among her numerous recordings are the
complete piano works by Tchaikovsky made
for Erato, complete Mussorgsky piano works,
all Prokofiev’s piano concertos and
Mendelssohn’s complete Songs Without
Words. .
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In Europe she has given concerts with the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Amsterdam
Concertgebouw
Orchestra,
the
Liszt
Academy Budapest, Czech Philharmonic
Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra,
English Sinfonia, Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra and the Orchestre de Paris, to
name only the most important.
In America she has appeared with the New
York Philharmonic and the Orchestras of
Boston,
Chicago,
Cleveland
and
Philadelphia. Among the conductors with
whom she has worked are Sir John
Barbirolli, Sir Adrian Boult, Sir Colin Davis,
Kurt Masur, Yuri Temirkanov, Kyrill
Kondrashin and Lord Yehudi Menuhin,
together with her husband, Gennady
Rozhdestvensky, with whom she has also
appeared on occasion playing piano duets.
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