Yekaterina Lebedeva
Yekaterina Lebedeva studied at the Kiev State Conservatoire,
graduating with distinction in 1993 after winning several
prizes.
In March 1998 she was invited to give a debut recital at the
Purcell Room as part of the South Bank Centre’s first Young
Musician's Platform, ‘FRESH’. This was the first of many
appearances at the South Bank Centre, including the premiere of the
Glass Piano opera for piano, soprano and voice. Yekaterina
has performed Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Winds with the
Orchestra of Colours in the Athens Megaron, and premiered Schnittke
Concerto for Piano and Strings at the Cairo Opera House. She was
the featured musical artist at the International Herald and
Tribune’s London Arts Season, ‘Breathless’ in 2005.
Yekaterina is a keen performer of 20th century and contemporary
music and has premiered commissioned works by modern British
composers as well as presenting the Soviet music of the 1960s, a
fascinating time of artistic blossoming and subsequent political
clampdown and stagnation. As well as her natural empathy with
Russian music, Yekaterina has established a wide repertoire of
major works for piano from the impassioned philosophical works of
Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert to the delicacy and fragility of the
19th century French masters like Claude Debussy.
As a teacher and educator she has worked at Kiev Specialist
Music School, Istanbul Conservatoire, Trinity College of Music and
the Royal College of Music in London. She is a mentor of the
Professional Development course for the Associated Board of the
Royal Schools of Music and a former director of the Croydon Centre
for Young Pianists. Yekaterina has given masterclasses in Hungary,
Poland, Germany and Greece.