Valentina Lisitsa

美籍烏克蘭鋼琴家Valentina Lisitsa(瓦倫廷娜·李斯蒂莎)出生于烏克蘭的基輔，3歲開始學習鋼琴，第一次獨奏音樂會只有4歲，之后就讀于Lynsenko音樂學校、基輔音樂學院，后來加入美國國籍。
 
目前，她已發(fā)行在Audiofon唱片公司發(fā)行了8張唱片，以及3張獨立發(fā)行的DVD。其中她發(fā)行的肖邦24首練習曲集異常搶手。音樂評論家對她的演奏貫于“如天使在演奏”和“充滿電流的鋼琴家”的評論。
 
她在參加莫扎特音樂節(jié)上眼花繚亂的演奏更是好評四起。對她來說演繹拉赫馬尼諾夫和貝多芬作品對她有特殊的意義。2009年她將同路特丹交響樂團合作5場拉赫馬尼諾夫音樂會。她也正開始豪情萬丈的錄制貝多芬的32首鋼琴奏鳴曲。此外lisitsa已經(jīng)同Lynn Harrell，Jimmy Lin，Roberto Diaz，Ida Haendel等音樂家合作過。另外值得一提的是她2007年到2009年已同小提琴家Hilary Hahn一起合作在歐洲，美洲和日本舉辦多場音樂會。
 
Lisitsa常常自嘲的說自己是“鄉(xiāng)村鋼琴家”，在她北卡羅萊那州的家中，兩只貓，一個三歲的兒子和他的音樂合作伙伴兼愛人Alexei Kuznersoff，是她心中快樂動物園中上演的一場四人音樂會。她加入Naxos后，鋼琴贊助商已由Bosendorfer變成了Steinway。
 
With her multi-faceted playing described as “dazzling”, Valentina Lisitsa is at ease in a vast repertoire ranging from Bach and Mozart to Shostakovich and Bernstein.  Her orchestral repertoire alone includes more than forty concerti.  She admits to having a special affinity for the music of Rachmaninoff and Beethoven and continues to add to her vast repertoire each season.
 
Valentina Lisitsa was born in Kiev, Ukraine and began playing the piano at the age of three, performing her first solo recital a year later. She gained a place at the Lysenko Music School for Gifted Children and later studied at the Kiev Conservatory under Ludmilla Tsvierko. In 1991 she won the first prize in The Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition together with Alexei Kuznetsoff. She now resides in the USA.
 
With more than 30 million YouTube channel views, Valentina Lisitsa is one of the most watched classical musicians on the Web, using digital innovation to champion classical music and performance. She has performed in venues around the world, including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and the Musikverein. In May 2010, Valentina Lisitsa performed the Dutch premiere of Rachmaninoff’s “New 5th” Concerto in her debut with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, and in August 2011 made her debut with the Orchestra Sinfonica Brasileira under the baton of Maestro Lorin Maazel.
 
Valentina Lisitsa has recorded three independently-released DVDs, including her best-selling set of Chopin’s 24 Etudes.  Her recording of the 4 sonatas for violin and piano by composer Charles Ives, made with Hahn, was released in October 2011. In addition, Ms. Lisitsa has recently completed recordings of the complete concerti of Rachmaninoff and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the London Symphony Orchestra under conductor Michael Francis.
 
Her 11-12 season features debut performances with the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Colorado Symphony and recitals at Ravinia, Festival of the Arts Boca, Teatro de Colon in Buenos Aires and the Casals Festival, chamber engagements, and a solo recital in June 2012 at the Royal Albert Hall, London
 
Valentina Lisitsa records exclusively for Decca Classics.