With an astonishing musical sensibility and intellectual curiosity alongside her flawless technique, 20-year-old pianist Natasha Paremski has established herself as an artist of rare breadth and appeal. She continues to generate excitement from all corners as she wins over audiences with her dynamic performances.

In the 2006-2007 season, Natasha appeared with orchestras and in recital across the US and Europe, including a debut with San Francisco Performances and her Spanish debut with recitals in Las Palmas and Oviedo. In the summer of 2007, she performed Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto as a last-minute replacement for the opening nights of both the Caramoor Festival in Katonah, NY and the Bravo! Vail Valley Festival in Vail, CO, four days apart. Her past engagements include performances with the San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Houston Symphony, New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall, San Diego Symphony, the Orpheum Foundation for the Advancement of Young Soloists (with the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich), Residentie Orchestra, and Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Natasha has also given recitals at London's Wigmore Hall, the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, the Schloss Elmau and Verbier festivals, and on the Rising Stars Series of Gilmore and Ravinia.

With a strong focus on new music, Natasha's growing repertoire reflects an artistic maturity beyond her years. At the suggestion of John Corigliano, she began playing his Piano Concerto and is performing it with the Colorado Symphony in the 2007-08 season and at the American Symphony Orchestra League conference in June 2008. In recital, she has played several pieces by Fred Hersch, who is currently writing a long-form solo piano piece for her. Natasha has also performed Rubinstein's Fourth Piano Concerto in the US and Europe in past seasons to great acclaim.

Natasha also continues to extend her performance activity and range beyond the traditional concert hall. She was featured in a major two-part film for BBC Television on the life and work of Tchaikovsky, shot on location in St. Petersburg, performing excerpts from Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto and other works. In the winter of 2007, she will be participating along with Simon Keenlyside and Maxim Vengerov in the filming of "Twin Spirits", a project starring Sting and Trudie Styler that explores the music and writing of Robert and Clara Schumann, which will be released on DVD. She has previously performed the piece several times with the co-creators in New York and the UK, all directed by John Caird, the director/adaptor of the musical Les Misérables.

Born in Moscow, Natasha began her piano studies at the age of 4 with Nina Malikova at the Andreyev School of Music there. In 1995 she emigrated with her family to the United States and became a US citizen in 2001. She studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music before moving to New York to study with Pavlina Dokovska at Mannes College of Music, from which she graduated in 2007. Her growing list of awards includes the Prix Montblanc 2007, the 2006 Gilmore Young Artist Award, top prize in the 2002 Bronislaw Kaper Awards sponsored by the Los Angeles Philharmonic; top prize in the Young Artists in Carnegie Hall 2000 International Piano Festival, and many others.

Natasha made her professional debut at age nine with the El Camino Youth Symphony in California. At the age of fifteen she debuted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and recorded two discs on the Bel Air Music Label with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under Dmitry Yablonsky, the first featuring Anton Rubinstein's Piano Concerto No. 4 coupled with Rachmaninov's Paganini Rhapsody and the second featuring all of Chopin's shorter works for piano and orchestra.

Date Last Edited: 28th March 2008