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Elizaveta UKRAINSKAIA(Russia)
Elizaveta Ukrainskaia is laureate of many international competitions, including the 9th Sendai International Music Competition (1st prize and Audience Prize, Japan, 2025), the International Piano Competition “Palma d’Oro” (1st prize and three special prizes, Finale Ligure, Italy and Donzdorf, Germany, 2021), XVIII Delphic Games (1st prize and Steinway&Sons Prize, Rostov, Russia, 2019), RNCM James Mottram International Piano Competition (1st prize, Manchester, England, 2018), and the European Piano Competition in Bremen (1st prize and three special prizes, Bremen, Germany, 2016).
In November 2022 she became the winner of the prize named after Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, presented at the Piano Academy in Eppan (Italy). In 2021 and 2023 she participated in the Academy of the Verbier Festival, both times receiving special prizes. In 2024 she got 2nd prize and two special prizes at 15th UNISA Piano competition (Pretoria, South Africa).
In 2011 she graduated from the Lyahovitskaya Music School (class of V. Ovcharova), in 2015 graduated from the Special Music School by St. Petersburg Conservatory (class of L. Rudova). In 2020 she graduated from St. Petersburg Conservatory (class of Prof. A. Sandler), receiving the “Best Graduate” prize, awarded to only one musician from the conservatory each year. Now she is working at the same conservatory as a piano and chamber music professor and writing a dissertation.
She participated in master classes of A. Bonatta, A. Schiff, A. Vardi, B. Douglas, D. Alexeev, D. Bashkirov, G. Wallish, J. Achúcarro, J.-E. Bavouzet, K. Hellwig, K. Scherbakov, M. Kultyshev, R. Goode, R. Shereshevskaya, V. Ovchinnikov, W. Brons, Y. Kaplinsky.
She gives concerts in the cities of Russia, Africa, America, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Montenegro, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Japan, UAE.