International prize for HfMT pianist
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Daria Parkhomenko, a master's student in Prof. Stepan Simonyan's piano class, won third prize and the audience prize at the International Piano Competition in the Japanese city of Sendai
The piano competition took place from May 25 to June 9 in Sendai, Japan, with a top-class international jury. Piano students from 20 countries took part.
After a demanding solo program in the preliminary round, Daria Parkhomanko played a total of three piano concertos with the Sendai Philarmonic Orchestra under the direction of Junichi Hirokami:
Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto in G major (semi-final), Mozart's Piano Concerto in G major and Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto in B flat minor.
The Russian pianist Daria Parkhomenko was born on 28.04.1991. in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. She received her first lessons at the age of four and won first prize at a piano competition for young pianists just two years later.
From 2003 she attended the primary music school (Kollege) at 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, and at the same time studies with Prof. Eliso Virsaladze at the Scuola di Musica Fiesole in Italy.
Daria Parkhomenko received further musical inspiration from, among others Alfred Brendel, Lew Natochenny, Michel Beroff, Dmitry Alexeev, Grigory Gruzman, Janina Fialkowska, Anna Vinnitskaja, Kevin Kenner, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Hans-Peter Stenzl & Volker Stenzl, Hamish Milne, Severin von Eckardstein, Pavel Nersessian, Balazs Szokolay, Matthias Kirschnereit.
Her most important prizes include and 1st prize at the George Enescu International Piano Competition. Prize at the George Enescu International Piano Competition in Bukharest 2018, Clavicologne Competition (2019, Hamburg, 2nd prize) and 2nd prize at the International M.K. Ciurlionis Piano Competition in Vilnius 2015. In addition to the above-mentioned awards, the young pianist is a multiple prizewinner at numerous national and international piano competitions, including the Blütner International Piano Competition (2007, Kaliningrad, Russia, 3rd prize). 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); ICOM Piano Competition (2016, Hamburg, 1st Prize), NUOVA COPPA PIANISTI International Piano Competition (2016, Italy, 2nd Prize), III Tallinn International Piano Competition (2016, Estonia, 3rd Prize), Pietro Iadeladelisti International Piano Competition (2016, Italy, 3rd Prize), Pietro Iadelisti 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).
The young pianist has already performed solo concerts in various national and international venues: in Russia, Germany, Italy, Romania, Greece, Norway, Japan and the USA.