Finalisti - Ekaterina Gumenyuk

EKATERINA GUMENYUK
Ekaterina Gumenyuk was born 22.03.1989 at the city of Volgodonsk, Russia . From 1997 to 1999 she studied at the Music school N 1 of her town named after D. Shostakovich( teacher: Vorobyova E.A.). From 1999 to 2002 She studied at the Music school n.11 of Saint- Petersburg (teachers: Sandovskaja K.A., Polozova.M.G.). From 2003 she studies at the Special music school - liceum of Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory, Saint-Petersburg ( professor A. Sandler). She took part to important competitions such as : I Open A.D.Artobolevskaya competition for young pianists, Moscow, 1999 (III prize); IV Open P.I.Chajkovsky competition for young pianists, Saint Petersburg, 2000 (III prize ); IV International S.V.Rakhmaninov competition for young pianists, Great Novgorod, 2000 (II prize and special prize ); II International Prokofiev competition for young pianists , Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, 2004 ( V prize ); VI International Chopin competition, Narva, Estonia, 2006 (III prize and 3 special prizes). Ekaterina Gumenyuk gave many concerts (solo and with orchestra) in France, Switzerland, Austria, Morocco, USA. She has performed with orchestra of Saint-Petersburg, (conductors: R.Martynov, A. Sladkovsky, Z. Rychert).