Competition successes for HfMT pianist
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Maria Narodytska, concert exam student in Stepan Simonian's piano class, has won three first prizes at international piano competitions
A first prize from March 2012 resulted from her participation in the 3rd Piano Competition in Oleggio (Italy), another from the Orbetello Piano Competition, also held in Italy, and a first prize from the Music International Grand Prix.
Biography
Maria Narodytska was born in Kiev (Ukraine). In 2011, she graduated from the Peter Tchaikovsky State National Academy of Music of Ukraine as a pianist under the direction of Prof. Natalia Tolpygo. In 2014, she received a diploma in composition from the same conservatory. Since 2015, Maria has been studying at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama in the class of Prof. Ralf Nattkemper. She is currently developing her pianistic skills as a concert exam student under the direction of Prof. Stepan Simonian.
So far she has been awarded prizes at over 40 international music competitions. During the last two years Maria has won first prizes at Orbetello IPC; Oleggio IPC; Music International Grand Prix IMC; Adilia Alieva IPC; "Sound Espressivo" IMC; "Fujairah" IMC; "Triomph de l'Art" IMC; "Citta di Barletta" IMC; Tkaczewski IMC; Iscart IMC.
She was also awarded second prizes at Mauro Paulo Monopoli IPC (no first prize was given up); Campillos IPC; Paderewski IPC (Hartford, USA), as well as third prizes at Santa Cecilia IPC (Porto, Portugal). As the winner of the Mauro Paulo Monopoli Competition, Narodytska is engaged for a concert tour in Italy in the 2021 season.
In 2019, Maria recorded her first album of Brahms music under the OnClassical label. The album was released worldwide by Naxos of America. The second album was released in 2020; the third album with the music of F. Schubert was also recorded under the label OnClassical and released in March 2021 under Naxos of America.
Maria participated in the masterclasses of Daniel Pollack, Lily Dorfman, Kevin Kenner, Pavel Nersessian, Grigory Gruzman, Akiko Ebi, Lev Natochenny.