Kateryna Titova

The Ukrainian pianist Kateryna Titova resides in Berlin and has been awarded prizes in twenty international piano competitions. She began her musical education at the age of five at music schools in Kharkiv and Moscow. In 2001, she continued her studies in Germany, first in Münster with Michael Keller, then in Dresden with Arkadi Zenzipér. Further important stages of her musical training included the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK) with Norma Fisher and the Accademia Pianistica Internazionale “Incontri col Maestro” (Imola, Italy) with Boris Petrushansky. Igor Blagodatov (a student of Jacob Milstein) has also had a significant and ongoing influence on her artistic development.

As a soloist and chamber musician, Titova has performed across Europe, Russia, Ukraine, China, and the USA, with orchestras such as the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonia, the Chamber Orchestra of the National Theatre Prague, the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, and the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra. Her concert tours have taken her to festivals such as the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Kissinger Sommer, the International Music Festival in Viana do Castelo (Portugal), the Virtuosi Festival Lviv, the “LvivMozArt” Festival, the Palermo Piano Festival, and the Liszt Festival Raiding (Austria).

Kateryna Titova has performed in prestigious concert halls including the Berlin Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Semperoper Dresden, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus Vienna, the Stephaniensaal Graz, the Lisinsky Hall Zagreb, and the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. Her solo and chamber music recordings, featuring works by Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Scriabin, as well as collaborations with oboist Ramon Ortega, have been released by labels such as Sony Classical and Genuin. In recent years, live recordings have become increasingly important to Titova, as they reflect her artistic vision of vibrant and perfect pianism. Recent releases include Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 with the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra and the album "Bridges" featuring works by Ukrainian composers with the International Symphonic Orchestra Lviv conducted by Jaroslav Shemet.

Titova’s pianistic credo is, "One does not need to abandon or violate the framework of classical interpretation to express oneself fully," and she adds, "Within this framework, there is enough artistic freedom for me to express myself individually and highly emotionally, but always authentically and musically comprehensibly."

Kateryna Titova has been closely associated with the Liszt Festival Raiding for several years and will provide significant pianistic contributions as the Artist in Residence starting from the 2024 season.

(June 2024)