Pianist Kateryna Titova is a performer who knows how to use the piano to tell stories and captivate her audience. Stupendous pianistic technique and superior virtuosity are the natural ingredients in the realisation of her artistic credo: to create a perfect culture of sound and to convey emotions with verve, stylistic confidence, taste and conviction.

She began her training at the age of five at music schools in Kharkov and Moscow, and from 2001 she studied in Germany, first in Münster with Michael Keller, then in Dresden with Arkadi Zenzipér. Another important station was the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester). Igor Blagodatov, a pupil of the legendary piano teacher Jacob Milstein, has had a major influence on her artistic development.

As a soloist, Kateryna Titova is a welcome guest in Europe’s most prestigious concert halls, including the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and the Philharmonie in Berlin, and has performed extensively in Russia, China, Ukraine and the USA. She has also performed with orchestras such as the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Graz Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kiev Symphony Orchestra. She is regularly invited to international festivals.

In recent years, the artist has focused on live recordings that combine her ideas of lively music-making with the highest pianistic standards. She recently released Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra and the album »Bridges« with works by Ukrainian composers and the International Symphonic Orchestra Lviv. Kateryna Titova’s first CD of works by Sergei Rachmaninov was released by Sony. Her new album »Liszt Pur«, recorded live at the Liszt Festival Raiding, will be released shortly.

»You don’t have to leave or violate the framework of classical interpretation in order to express yourself«, is Titova’s pianistic credo. She adds: »Within this framework there is enough artistic freedom for me to express myself individually and emotionally, but always authentically and musically comprehensible!«