CREDO & BIOGRAHPY

Piano + me

​The piano + me / me + the piano – we are Classical+.

Classical+ stands for openness, for new emotional impulses, for musical horizons that touch and surprise. In this combination, sound and feeling, technique and intuition, tradition and new sensibilities merge with curiosity about the future. Music is my expression, my dialogue with the world.

We ‘make music’ for you! Every note I play is an invitation to you to experience my music.

Are you open to music with new moments? Then let us take you on a journey of emotions through soundscapes that are familiar yet new. Classical+ is a promise that music can be more than just notes: it is an experience that connects.

Have a listen – and come to my next live performance. I look forward to your feedback, your thoughts, your response. Because music lives through encounters – and through you.

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Bio

Ekaterina Kitáeva received her first piano lessons at the age of four. Due to her extraordinary talent, she was early on accepted into the special Music Academy of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.
She completed her studies in Moscow and at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, concluding in the master class of Prof Joachim Volkmann. Numerous master courses helped her develop into one of the most remarkable pianists of recent generations. Among her master class professors have been

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• Olesya Larchenko (a student of Emil Gilels),

• Boris Bloch,

• Vitaly Margulis,

• Lazar Berman, and

• Vladimir Krainev (a student of both Neuhaus sr. and jr.),

 

Sergiu Celibidache was deeply impressed by her playing and said she would without any doubt belong on stage. Her artistic development has been highlighted by numerous prizes and awards, including a number of popularity awards. Throughout her career, Ekaterina has been a highly valued artist at important domestic and foreign music festivals and concert halls, like Alte Oper Frankfurt, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden or Rheingau Musik festival, and has been enthusiastically greeted by both the media and the general public.

She played the piano passages in the movie "Angel seeks piano", starring, among others, the later Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz.

Romantic piano music, including the romantic compositions of 20th century Russian composers, is at the centre of the artistic work of Ekaterina Kitáeva. She began to improvise and compose her own pieces at a young age. In her compositions with a romantic influence, she creatively uses rhythmical and harmonic elements of the present day, including those of blues and jazz.