Ekaterina Dvoretckaia (harp)

SOLOIST OF MARCH 2023. INTERVIEW

Ekaterina was born in Moscow in 2003.  Since 2010, she was a student of the Central Music School  (class of an Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation Professor Elena Ilyinskaya).Since 2021 is a student at at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory by the same professor.  Since 2023 she is a student at  Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (class of Agnes Clement).
 
Laureate of the All-Russian and international competitions

2019

• The II Prize Award at the I All-Russian competition of Young musicians "Constellation" in the category "Orchestral string instruments" (Sirius Education Center, Sochi)
• The winner in the XV International Competition of Young Musicians in the nomination "String instruments" (Moscow)

2020

• The winner in the III All-Russian Music Competition in the nomination "Harp" (Moscow)
• A laureate of the V International Competition among Performing Musicians "Classical Academy" (Moscow)
• The winner in the International online young talents competition “Nouvelles Etoiles"  (Paris, France)

2022

• The winner in the 21st Israeli Harp International Competition.

She took part in Irina Tishchenko's master classes. She took part in the sessions at the Sirius Educational Center in Sochi in the class of Elena Ilyinskaya (2018).
She is a fellow of the Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Fondation, ithe New Names Foundation (2019).
 
She appears at leading concert venues in Moscow. She performed with The Moscow Virtuosi orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Spivakov, the Presidential Orchestra of the Russian Federation, the Orchestra of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the "Northern Symphony" Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Fabio Mastrangelo, the State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan under the baton of Ayrat Kashaev.
 
She took part in festivals "Moscow Meets Friends", "Harp Art of Russia", Moscow International Harp Festival, M.P. Mchedelov International Harp Festival. She won in the International Youth Festival and Competition “Vivat Musica” (Moscow, 2019), in the International Arts Festival and Competition “Concerto Virtuoso” on video recordings (Moscow, 2020), the International harp competition for the best performance of J.S. Bach on video recordings (St. Petersburg, 2020).
 
Ekaterina participates in programs of St.Petersburg Music House since 2020.