Valentina Lisitsa

美籍乌克兰钢琴家Valentina Lisitsa(瓦伦廷娜·李斯蒂莎)出生于乌克兰的基辅，3岁开始学习钢琴，第一次独奏音乐会只有4岁，之后就读于Lynsenko音乐学校、基辅音乐学院，后来加入美国国籍。
 
目前，她已发行在Audiofon唱片公司发行了8张唱片，以及3张独立发行的DVD。其中她发行的肖邦24首练习曲集异常抢手。音乐评论家对她的演奏贯于“如天使在演奏”和“充满电流的钢琴家”的评论。
 
她在参加莫扎特音乐节上眼花缭乱的演奏更是好评四起。对她来说演绎拉赫马尼诺夫和贝多芬作品对她有特殊的意义。2009年她将同路特丹交响乐团合作5场拉赫马尼诺夫音乐会。她也正开始豪情万丈的录制贝多芬的32首钢琴奏鸣曲。此外lisitsa已经同Lynn Harrell，Jimmy Lin，Roberto Diaz，Ida Haendel等音乐家合作过。另外值得一提的是她2007年到2009年已同小提琴家Hilary Hahn一起合作在欧洲，美洲和日本举办多场音乐会。
 
Lisitsa常常自嘲的说自己是“乡村钢琴家”，在她北卡罗莱那州的家中，两只猫，一个三岁的儿子和他的音乐合作伙伴兼爱人Alexei Kuznersoff，是她心中快乐动物园中上演的一场四人音乐会。她加入Naxos后，钢琴赞助商已由Bosendorfer变成了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.