Ekaterina Skanavi is one of the extraordinary pianists of her time. Her performance schedule is scheduled for years to come. Skanavi often plays both solo and in tandem with famous conductors and musicians, including Yuri Bashmet, Gidon Kremer, Maxim Vengerov.
Biography
Ekaterina Skanavi was born in 1971 in Moscow. Her family can be safely called artistic. His father is a pianist-ensemble player in the past, and now he is a professor at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Mother is a famous film critic. His maternal grandfather excelled in directing films and his paternal grandfather in mathematics. Many schoolchildren and students still learn the wisdom of the "queen of sciences" from the textbooks of Mark Skanavi.
Already in childhood, her parents noticed Catherine's craving for playing the piano. First, they gave her to Gnesinka. There, the girl studied under the guidance of Tatyana Zelikman. Soon, Ekaterina moved to the Central Music School, where Vladimir Krainev became her teacher. In one of the interviews, the pianist noted that she had been lucky with mentors since childhood.
At the age of 12, Skanavi performed for the first time at the Moscow Conservatory, performing with the orchestra D. Kabalevsky's third piano concerto conducted by the author himself. Subsequently, Catherine began to study at the same conservatory.
After graduating from school, Skanavi studied at the Paris Conservatory. She soon moved to the States. Skanavi began living in Cleveland and studying at the local Institute of Music. In parallel, she took lessons from Sergei Babayan. He was her friend, but then very few people knew him as a virtuoso pianist. After America, Skanavi returned to her homeland, where she continued her postgraduate studies at her native Moscow Conservatory with Vera Gornostaeva.
Career
On the world stage, Catherine announced herself in 1989. She was then barely 18 years old. Skanavi took part in the Marguerite Long and Jacques Thibault competition in Paris. Then the jury gave her third place, but the French public did not agree with them. The organizers of the competition had to award the girl the audience choice prize. After that, Skanavi realized that she wanted to connect her life with the stage.
Five years later, Catherine won a prize at the Maria Callas Piano Competition, which was held in Athens, Greece. Three years later, she became the winner of an international competition in the American Fort Worth. After that, she began to actively tour the world. The halls where she performed were always sold out. The audience welcomes her performance with a bang, especially the compositions of Chopin, Liszt, Schumann.
Skanavi not only performs with piano concerts, but also periodically releases discs. One of them was recognized by critics as the best classic disc of 2000.
Personal life
Ekaterina was married to the famous actor Yevgeny Stychkin. Three children were born in the marriage: a daughter and two sons. However, the family broke up, and Skanavi left the actor for another creative person - the famous cellist Claudio Bojorkes. The couple is currently not officially scheduled.
