Success for HfMT pianist

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Daria Parkhomenko, Master's student in Stepan Simonean's piano class, won first prize at the International Enescu Competition 2018 in Bucharest

Daria won the competition held at the end of September with the extremely demanding Third Piano Concerto by Sergei Rachmaninov. Second prize went to Daumants Liepinš (Latvia), while Alexander Panfilov (Russia) took third place. According to the jury's choice, Daria Parkhomenko and Daumants Liepinš had the same number of points, but the final decision was made by the president of the jury, Philippe Entremont. The finalists were accompanied by the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of conductor Vassily Sinaisky.

Vita:
The Russian pianist Daria Parkhomenko was born in 1991 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. From 2003 she attended the primary music school at the Rostov State Rakhmaninov Conservatory, where she was taught by Professor Sergei Osipenko. Since 2013, she has been a student of Prof. Stepan Simonian at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama, while also studying with Prof. Eliso Virsaladze at the Scuola di Musica Fiesole in Italy. The young pianist has already given solo concerts in various national and international venues: in Russia, Germany, Italy, Greece, Norway, Japan and the USA.
Daria Parkhomenko is a multiple prizewinner at numerous national and international piano competitions, including the Blütner International Piano Competition (2007, Kaliningrad, Russia, 3rd prize); National Competition "Young Talents of Russia" (2009, Moscow, Russia, 1st prize); I International Piano Competition "The Road to Mastery" (2010, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, 2nd prize); VII International M.K. Ciurlionis Piano Competition (2015, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2nd prize), ICOM Piano Competition (2016, Hamburg, Germany, 1st prize), NUOVA COPPA PIANISTI International Piano Competition (2016, Italy, 2nd prize), III Tallinn International Calvier Competition (2016, Estonia, 3rd prize), Pietro Iadeladelis International Piano Competition (2016, Estonia, 3rd prize). Prize), Pietro Iadeluca Piano Competition (Italy, 2017, 1st Prize), Palma d' Oro International Piano Competition (2018, Italy, 3rd Prize), "In Musica" International Piano Competition (2018, Italy, 2nd Prize).
As a soloist, Daria Parkhomenko has performed with various major orchestras, including the North German Philharmonic Orchestra Rostock, Lithuanian National Philharmonic Orchestra Vilnius, Kaunas Philharmonic Orchestra, Taiwan Artists Orchestra, Estonian National Philharmonic Orchestra. She has performed with conductors such as Wojciech Rajski, Ching-Ming Lu, Modestas Barkauskas, Jung Hung Park, Arvo Volmer and Michael Kirchoff.
Daria Parkhomenko has performed at famous international music festivals such as the International Music Festival "The faces of modern pianism" in Mariinsky Hall (St. Petersburg, Russia), Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival. She has also been heard live on Deutschlandradio Kultur, LRT Klasika and Delfi (Lithuania) on several occasions.