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Natalia Uchitel
Natalia Uchitel is a pianist, music teacher and author of her own creative and educational projects. She performs in Russia and in Germany, Italy, Israel, USA, England, Estonia, Switzerland, Austria, etc.
In 2019, she graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where she was a student of the famous pianist and teacher Peter Laul. In 2021, Natalia completed her postgraduate studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Inga Dzektser. In 2023, she began studying in the class of Evgeny Sinaisky at the Academy of Arts, Essen (Germany).
Biography
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.).
She is currently actively developing her career as a chamber musician and continues to perform as a soloist.
Natalia regularly participates as a concertmaster in various masterclasses and festivals.
In addition to her concert activity, Natalia also develops her own projects and works as a lecturer.
In 2022, she launched her podcast and YouTube show “Teacher on the Veranda”, where she and parents discuss topics that matter to them in the fields of art and pedagogy.
In 2020, Natalia published the book “Teacher–Student: How to Learn to Love your Music Practice”, followed in 2024 by “Music education without trauma”. Both books have been successfully sold in Russia with a total circulation of over 2,000 copies.
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.).
She is currently actively developing her career as a chamber musician and continues to perform as a soloist.
Natalia regularly participates as a concertmaster in various masterclasses and festivals.
In addition to her concert activity, Natalia also develops her own projects and works as a lecturer.
In 2022, she launched her podcast and YouTube show “Teacher on the Veranda”, where she and parents discuss topics that matter to them in the fields of art and pedagogy.
In 2020, Natalia published the book “Teacher–Student: How to Learn to Love your Music Practice”, followed in 2024 by “Music education without trauma”. Both books have been successfully sold in Russia with a total circulation of over 2,000 copies.
Self
Introduction
Introduction
Fotos & Videos
Watch more recordings on my YouTube channel
Upcoming performances
Philharmonic hall
The Myasnikov Mansion
Folkwang Universität der Kunst
Brahms-salon
“House of poets”
LMN Concert
“Pobeda” hall
Brahms Institut
Some of the projects (organised by Nataliia)
- From Mozart to Jazz8 charity lecture-concerts in different halls of St. Petersburg with the aim of telling about classical music in a more accessible way, the result - one million rubles raised for the work of a night shelter (2016-2018)
- The Art of Listeninglive lecture-concerts, meetings and a website with online lectures on the popularisation of classical music (from 2018)
- The Music siestaproject, in which listeners lie on the floor with blankets in academic rooms and do special exercises while listening to classical music (from 2022) ⇒ Watch video about this project
- ‘The Guard Letter’, the connection of classical music and related artsPerfomance based on the work of Boris Pasternak and his musical references in it, ‘Bach and Kharms’ based on the works of the poet Daniil Kharms, etc.
Teachers' Veranda podcast
Teachers' Veranda podcast - on Yandex.Music, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Castbox, Soundstream and other platforms.
