JOEY CALDERAZZO

PETRONEL MALAN

ALEXANDER PALEY

CLEMENS UNTERREINER

OVIDIO DE FERRARI

MIKHAIL PLETNEV

 

Kateryna Titova was born in Enakievo in the Ukraine in 1983 and took her first piano lessons at the age of five. From 1994 to 1999 she was a student at the Central Special School for Charkov, after which she enrolled at the special school of Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. Among her early awards were first prize in the Ukrainian Prokofiev Competition in 1993 and both the first prize and the special prize of the American Liszt Association at the Czech piano competition Virtuosi per Musica di Pianoforte.
Kateryna Titova gave her concert début in 1997 with Mozart's Piano concerto no. 21 in C major, K.467, in the Charkov Philharmonic Hall. Only a year later, she played the Piano concerto no. 2 in G minor, op. 22, by Saint-Saëns together with the Charkov Philharmonic, the Charkov Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2001 Kateryna Titova came to Germany, where she studied until 2003 at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, and then till 2007 at Dresden's Carl Maria von Weber Hochschule für Musik. In this period she won many first and second prizes in international competitions, e.g. in the 2nd International Piano Competition for Young Musicians in Enschede, the 3rd Concurso Internacional de Piano "Compositores de Espana" (C.I.P.C.E.) in Madrid, the 8th International "Alicia de Larrocha" Piano Competition in Andorra, the 6th Annual International Russian Music Piano Competition in San José (California) and the International Anton G. Rubinstein Competition in Dresden. She was also awarded a variety of scholarships and grants, e.g. by the Dorian Foundation, the culture society Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Westfälischen Kulturarbeit (GWK) and the Oskar & Vera Ritter Foundation. She is currently being sponsored by the Lutz-E. Adolf Foundation for the Especially Gifted.
Kateryna Titova has learned a lot from working together with Igor Blagodatov, a pupil of Jacob Milstein, who himself is one of the doyens of the Russian piano school.

As both a soloist and a member of chamber formations, Kateryna Titova has given concerts in the Ukraine, Russia, Western Europe and the USA, playing with ensembles such as the Nederlands Symphony Orchestra and the Wiener Kammerorchester (Vienna Chamber Orchestra). She has appeared at international festivals such as the International Music Festival in Viana do Castello (Portugal) and at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival.

Kateryna Titova has recently become a first prize winner of San Nicola di Bari and Citta di Sulmona Piano competitions in Italy. She lives in the United Kingdom and is a scholar of Norma Fisher .

Historical Composers & Artists

"After my coffee and cigar we went to one of the recording rooms where they had a Blüthner piano Well, this Blüthner had the most beautiful singing tone I had ever found. I became quite enthusiastic and decided to play my beloved Barcarolle of Chopin. The piano inspired me. I don’t think I ever played better in my life.“

Arthur Rubinstein 

„My Many Years“ (page 281)

 

„In das Exil nach Amerika begleiteten mich nur zwei Wesen von Bedeutung: meine Frau Natalja und mein kostbarer Blüthner.“

“There are only two important things which I took with me on my way to America. My wife Natalia and my precious Blüthner.”

Sergei Rachmaninoff

 

 “Almost in the middle of the room, the black Blüthner grand stood, free of music, book or photographs. Debussy was proud of his grand piano, and before I played he showed me a new device invented by Blüthner: an extra string set on top of the others. Although not touched by the hammers, it caught the overtones, thus increasing the vibrations and enriching the sonority. This was a piano he had rented during a stay in Bournemouth, and liked so well that he had bought it and had it shipped to Paris.” “He played a number of passages and the tone he extracted from the Blüthner was the loveliest, the most elusive and ethereal I have ever heard”. 

letter from Maurice Dumesnil, friend

Claude Debussy

Debussy's Blüthner at the Musée Labenche