First prize for HfMT pianist
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Daria Parkhomenko, piano student (MA 4th semester) in the class of Prof. Stepan Simonian, has won the finalist prize at the 5th International Piano Competition in Hong Kong.
The internationally renowned competition took place in Hong Kong from October 7 to 24. Participants from more than 20 countries were invited to demonstrate their skills in three rounds. Daria Parkhomenko's final performance included Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto and was accompanied by the London Chamber Orchestra conducted by Ignat Solzhenitsyn.
Biography
The 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 of the Rostov State Rakhmaninov Conservatory, where she was taught by Professor Sergei Osipenko. Since 2013 she has been studying with Prof. Stepan Simonian at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama and at the same time with Prof. Eliso Virsaladze at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole in Italy.
Her most important prizes include 1st prize at the George Enescu International Piano Competition in Bucharest 2018, 3rd prize with audience prize at the Sendai International Piano Competition in Japan 2019, 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.
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), George Enescu Festival (Romania), Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany). The young pianist has also performed as a soloist in various major concert halls in Russia, Germany, Italy, Romania, Greece, Taiwan, Norway, Japan and the USA.
Daria Parkhomenko has performed as a soloist 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 and Rome Tre Orchestra. She has performed with conductors such as Wojciech Rajski, Vassily Sinaisky, Arvo Volmer, Ching-Ming Lu, Modestas Barkauskas, Jung Hung Park and Mikhail Kirchhoff.
She has also appeared live on Deutschlandradio Kultur, Radio NDR, LRT Klasika and Delfi (Lithuania) on several occasions.