PIANISTS 2009

 

 

 

 

 

Alina Kiryayeva is recognized internationally as an accomplished recitalist and collaborative artist. A native of the Ukraine, she performed her first solo recital at age 8 and her solo debut with an orchestra at the age of 11. The First Prize winner of the Senigallia International Competition, Italy, Ms. Kiryayeva has also claimed top prizes in several international piano competitions in the USA, including the Grace Welsh International Competition and the California Young Artist International Competition. Having received her BM and MM degrees from The Juilliard School, studying under Oxana Yablonskaya and Jerome Lowenthal, she is currently a doctoral candidate at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, studying under Dr. Marin Canin. She was honored by the Ukrainian President, Leonid Kravchuk, with the State Award for Achievements in Arts. She has also been awarded the Fannie Gottlieb-Harkavi Scholarship and Susan Rose Piano Scholarship. Ms. Kiryayeva has toured her native Ukraine as well as Russia, Mexico, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Holland and the United States. In recent seasons she has performed with the Kharkiv State Philharmonic and State Opera Theatre Orchestra, The Imperial Valley Symphony Orchestra and New York Symphonic Ensemble Orchestra. She, along with Maksim Shtrykov, clarinet, is co-founder of the “Grand Duo”.