Eleonora Karpukhova, Associate Professor at the Moscow Conservatory will perform a radiant Solo Piano recital. Winner of numerous international competitions Eleanora was born in Kazan and began her musical studies at age 5. She performs widely in Russia and regularly around Europe, in South America, and since 2014 in the United States.
Featuring works by Bach, Rachmaninov, Ravel and others.
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More about Eleonora Karpukhova
Russian pianist, winner of numerous international piano competitions and Associate Professor at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory — was born in Kazan (Russia) and began her musical studies at the age of 5.
In 2000, Eleonora graduated from the Moscow Conservatory under Prof. V. V. Kastelsky with honors degree. She completed her music education in 2003 as a probation assistant under Prof. M. S. Voskresensky.
While a student, she won numerous international competitions. Eleonora convincingly confirmed her complete professionalism in 2002 by winning the 18th Varallo Sessia International Competition in Italy and the 29th Dr. Luis Sigall International Piano Competition in Chile. "The final round of the music competition in Viña del Mar was a phenomenal event", wrote the Domingo newspaper. "An exceptional performance of Mozart's concerto No. 20 in D minor by Eleonora Karpukhova got the audience into blissfulness and tranquility." Further performances also brought her winning titles. In 2004, Eleonora won the Zlatko Grgosevich Competition in Zagreb, Croatia (Second Prize) and the Jose Vianna da Motta Piano Competition in Lisbon, Portugal.
Eleonora Karpukhova successfully combined her recitals in Russia and abroad. She regularly performs in Russia, Ukraine, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Austria, Chile, Brazil and Portugal. Her concerts in the Small and Rachmaninov Halls and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Salle Cortot in Paris, Saal Gasteig in Munich, Teatro "Gil Vicente" in Coimbra, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon and philharmonic halls of Kiev, Kazan, Donetsk, Kharkov and other cities have always been very successful. In the United States, she has performed at Benaroya Hall for the Russian Chamber Music Foundation of Seattle.
Moscow pianists have long esteemed Eleonora for a harmonic combination of strong will, warm emotions, inspiration and naturalness of her performing style.
Eleonora has vast experience of performing with an orchestra. She played numerous concerts with Orquestra Sinfonica de Chili, Orquestra Fundacao Gulbenkian,Polish Baltic Philharmonic orchestra, Orquestra Metropolitana, Orquestra de Algarve, Orquestra Sinfonica de Providencia ( Chile ). Eleonora Karpukhova actively cooperates with such famous conductors as S. Soldatov, Y. Yanko, A. Cassuto, D. del Pino Klinge, F. Lentini, D. Nazareth and M. Zilm, D.Kolobov, A. Dumay.
In 2013, Eleonora initiated and organized in Moscow the Rachmaninov Fest music festival to mark the 140th anniversary of the composer's birth. Eleonora has recorded two CDs of Rachmaninov's music, for both solo and two pianos. Also solo CD album featuring complete Rachmaninov's Etudes-Tableaux released in 2014 by Classical Records. In 2017 the new recording of pianist from live concert with Tchaikovsky’s piano masterpieces was released in Moscow. In 2024 she completed a three-year eight-concert series in the Conservatory playing everything Rachmaninov wrote for solo piano, in honor of the 150th anniversary of his birth.