Katerina Anokhina, Belarussian Cimbalum player

 

2007 IBLA GRAND PRIZE Top Prize Winner Katerina Anokhina, is a very talented and refined Cimbalum player.

She may very well be one of the best cimbalum players in the world! Her technique is great, her precision is breathtaking,

her musicality is elegant and deeply felt, her artistic projection and stage presence outstanding.

Ms. Anokhina will guide you into the discovery of a unique ancient instrument.

Thanks to her talent and discipline, one quickly falls in love with  the Belarussian Cimbalum.

Her performances in Ibla were unforgettable!

                                                                                                                                                              Dr. Salvatore Moltisanti

 

Artist: Katerina Anokhina
Katerina Anokhina is a unique instrumental performer playing classics on cimbalum .It is a rare ancient string instrument, which comes from the East.
There are similar instruments in other cultures known as santours or dulcimers. 3-octave range and chromatic tuning allow cimbalum to be used in performing a lot
of classical works from violin repertory.Anokhina is a highly experienced professional, having performed on stage for over 20 years. She has often been a winner
of several prestigious international awards, enjoying working with world-renowned musicians. She has performed in 12 countries, including Switzerland, Germany,

Italy, USA and Japan. In April of 2008 she will have a tour in America, which will end with the concert in Carnegie-Hall in New York on the 29th of April.

Anokhina received this unique opportunity as a winner of IBLA Grand Prize competition on Sicily (Raqusa-Ibla) in 2007. Her previous awards are no less significant.
She is a winner of International Competition for Interpreters of Modern Music in Rome (Italy) in 2006, Grand-Prix winner of International Contemporary Penderezky
Chamber Music Competition in Krakow (Poland) in 2005, winner of International Competition of Folk instruments Performers “Cup of the North” in Cherepovetz

(Russia) in 2000. She has had recitals at Automne musicale a Chatellerault (France) , EXPO 2000 in Hannover (Germany), Edinburg Art Festival (Scotland) ,
Bath music festival (Great Britain) etc.. As a soloist Anokhina has worked with major symphonic and chamber orchestras of Belarus and also, Symphonic orchestra
of Mariinsky Theater in St.Petersburg, Russia, conducted by Valeriy Gergiev ,Singapore Chinese Orchestra etc. . Anokhina has brilliant educational background.
In 2003 she received her Master of Arts degree from Belarusian State Music Academy, specializing in cimbalum solo performance. She became a professor of the
Academy in the young age of 21, which serves as a demonstration of her superb performing skills,artistic personality, passion and teaching talent.
Anokhina spent her high school years in Republican Lyceum of Belarusian Academy of music, graduating with honors in 1996. Being a 10-year-old girl she became
a winner of a prestigious Republican Zhinovich Competition in Belarus. At the same period she started to perform abroad as a soloist of Lyceum Junior Chamber
Orchestra. At the age of 11 the young prodigy received a scholarship from the famous international fund “Noviye imena” (“The New Names“, Moscow). She starred
in concerts, organized by the Fund in Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory and Moscow P.I Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. For a teenager it was a great experience
to perform on stage with such top professionals as Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Eugene Kissin , Alexander Gindin. In 1997 she received the President of Belarus Scholarship
for Gifted Youth.

Anokhina is a universal performer. Her repertory ranges from Barocco pieces to contemporary music, including modern compositions written especially for cimbalum.
Her favorite composers are Bela Bartok, Georgiy Sviridov, Robert Schumann, Zoltan Koday, Eugene Ysaye and Alfred Schnittke. Anokhina is often an object of interest
for international press. Articles covering her performances have recently appeared in Chinese, German,Italian and French press. She is an active participant of studio
recordings and TV music shows.

March 17, 2009

IBLA - MILANO AWARDS

Galleria d'Arte Moderna

Villa Reale

Via Palestro 16

Milano

11.00 am Concert for Students

19.00 pm Recital

IBLA Grand Prize Winner

Ekaterina Anokhina

Belorussian Cimbalum

performs her Milano Debut

presented by

Marcello Abbado

ITALY

 


Anokhina’s Repertory:

          B.Bartok Sonata for solo violine,Romanian dances,2nd rhapsody for violine and orchestra

         A.Shnitke A Paganini for solo violine