*Natasha Paremski* was recently announced as a winner of the Gilmore Young Artist Award for 2006. This prestigious award is the most recent of a long list of accolades awarded to this young virtuoso pianist, who was described by BBC Music Magazine as having “flawless technique and unstoppable energy”.
Only 18 years old, Natasha has already charmed many audiences throughout both Europe and the U.S. Past engagements have included performances with the San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Houston Symphony, New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall, San Diego Symphony, the Orpheum Foundation for the Advancement of Young Soloists (with the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and recitals in Seattle, at the Schloss Elmau and Verbier festivals, and on the Gilmore Rising Stars Series.
Highlights of Natasha’s 2005/2006 season include a return to the Tonhalle Orchestra, her debut recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall, the Auditorium of the Louvre in Paris and on Ravinia’s Rising Stars series, as well as debut concerto engagements with the Indianapolis Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Residentie Orchestra (in The Hague).
Born in Moscow in May, 1987, Natasha began her piano studies at the age of 4 with Nina Malikova at the Andreyev School of Music in Moscow. In 1995 she emigrated with her family to the United States, and became a U.S. citizen in 2001. Since then she has studied both privately and at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Natasha currently holds a full scholarship as a student of Pavlina Dokovska at Mannes College of Music in Manhattan, New York.
Natasha made her professional debut aged nine with the El Camino Youth Symphony in California. At the age of fifteen she debuted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and recorded two discs on the Bel Air Music Label with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under Dmitry Yablonsky, the first featuring Anton Rubinstein’s Piano Concerto No. 4 coupled with Rachmaninov’s Paganini Rhapsody and the second featuring all of Chopin’s shorter works for piano and orchestra.
Natasha won top prizes in the 2002 Bronislaw Kaper Awards sponsored by the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Young Artists in Carnegie Hall – 2000 International Piano Festival; 2000 Shenson Young Artist Concerto Competition in San Francisco; Pinault Musical Society 1999 International Piano Competition in New York; and many others.
