Natalia Uchitel was born on 8 October 1996 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She began studying music when she was about 4 years old, in the preparatory classes for the special music school of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Her first teacher was Marina Veniaminovna Wolf, a Honoured Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, under whose supervision she continued her education at the special music school of the conservatory.
2014-2019 she studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in the class of the renowned pianist and teacher Peter Laul. 2019-2021 she studied as a chamber musician at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with the renowned teacher Inga Dzekzer. Since 2023 she has been studying at the Folkwang Hochschule - Prof. Evgeny Sinaisky.
She has won prizes at the piano competitions for soloists and chamber music. For example, in 2017 Natalia received a diploma at the Robert Schumann Competition (Germany). In 2018 she was awarded 1st place at the Gummert Competition in Kazan. She has received a scholarship from the Youth Classics Festival (Switzerland). 2021: Chamber Music Competitions Russia, Volgograd - Gran-prix with Trio.
Natalia successfully performs in Russia, Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain, Switzerland, Estonia, USA, Israel etc. She regularly takes part in various masterclasses, e.g. with Dmitry Bashkirov, Konstantin Lifschiz, Gregory Gruzman, Nataliia Trull, Alexandr Sandler, Andrey Diev, etc.
Natalia Uchitel's repertoire consists of various pieces of music ranging from classics to contemporary works (composed by Yuri Krasavin, Leonid Desyatnikov, Evgeny Roitman etc.).
In recent years she has also been active as a concertmaster at masterclasses and as a teacher.
- 2022, 2023: Nagold Music Festival
- 2024: Summer masterclasses of ‘Classic Point’, Russia, St. Petersburg
- Publication of the book ‘How to love independent music lessons’
- Lectures at pedagogical conferences on the topics ‘Stage fright’, ‘Musician work in the classroom’, etc.
She is now actively developing as a chamber musician, creating her own musical projects and also developing as a teacher. Professional experience:2014: Piano accompanist at Music School 11 (viola class), St. Petersburg, Russia
2017-2022: Piano teacher in Glinka Choir School, Special Music School, St. Petersburg, Russia