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Elena Ulyanova – Biography Piano Jack Price Founding Partner / Managing Director Marc Parella Partner / Director of Operations Brenna Sluiter Marketing Operations Manager Karrah Cambry Opera and Special Projects Manager Mailing Address: 520 Geary Street Suite 605 San Francisco CA 94102 Telephone: Contents: Toll-Free 1-866-PRI-RUBI (774-7824) 310-254-7149 / Los Angeles Biography 415-504-3654 / San Francisco Reviews & Testimonials Skype: pricerubent | marcparella Repertoire Email: Short Notice Concertos [email protected] CD/DVDs [email protected] Recordings Curriculum Vitae Website: http://www.pricerubin.com Complete artist information including video, audio Yahoo!Messenger and interviews are available at www.pricerubin.com pricerubin Elena Ulyanova – Biography Praised as "a phenomenal, gifted performer" by Roy Gillinson of the Beethoven Society of America, Elena Ulyanova is a pianist whose style runs the gamut of power, strength, and technique to a delicate, floating elegant finesse. Hailed by the Moscow Conservatory as one of their most gifted musicians, her Professor Victor Merzhanov noted that she possesses "Great virtuosity, brilliant artistic temperament, unique interpretive expression and a rich sound pallet." At the age of 5, Elena Ulyanova began to study piano with her mother, Larisa Ulyanova, in Saki, Ukraine. After winning several first prizes in Ukrainian and Russian competitions, she was awarded full scholarships for study in Moscow at Gnessin College of Music, Gnessin Academy of Music, and Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. While at Gnessin Academy, she won the Momontov competition, which also resulted in tours of Russia, Bulgaria, and Romania. She was also awarded a tour of Austria, along with the best students representing Gnessin Academy, which included Alexander Kobrin. Shortly after entering Moscow Conservatory, she became a prizewinner in the second Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition. After receiving the Master of Music degree from Moscow Conservatory, she pursued postgraduate study with Victor Merzhanov, while performing many concerts for the Moscow Philharmonic Concert Association (Mosconcert). Elena has also taken master classes with Emanuel Krasovsky, Victor Derevianko, John O’Connor, Howard Shelley, and Leslie Howard. Elena recorded her first solo CD in 2004, with music of Franz Liszt, and it is available from Classical Records. Shortly afterwards, she immigrated to Washington, DC. In 2005, she studied with Howard Shelley, who has recorded all of Rachmaninoff’s works, to prepare for recording of the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. The Rhapsody and Piano Concerto No. 2 are featured on her CD with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra and released in July, 2006 by Bel Air Music. Elena’s music has been heard on radio stations WFMT in Chicago, CKWR in Ontario, and WQED in Pittsburgh. Elena Ulyanova – Biography Elena has performed orchestra, chamber, and solo concerts throughout Russia, Ukraine, Great Britain, Ukraine, Austria, Korea, Netherlands, China, Poland, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, and Romania. Her performances with orchestras include the Vienna Musikverein Orchestra, the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Crimea State Symphony Orchestra in Yalta, State Russian Orchestra “Boyan”, and the Omsk Philharmonic. With the Rachmaninoff White Lilacs Festival orchestra in 2001, Elena masterfully performed the Rachmaninoff second concerto on only four hours notice! Among her appearances since immigrating to the United States, she has performed with the Scottsdale Symphony Orchestra in Arizona, City of Fairfax Band, American Balalaika Symphony, Landon Symphonette, the Chamber Music Society of Greater Johnstown Pennsylvania, the Dame Myra Hess Series and Fazioli Salon Series in Chicago, the Las Vegas Philharmonic’s Connoisseur Series, concerts in Washington DC, Orlando Florida, and New York – Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Yamaha Pianos Concert Series, and Bargemusic. In November 2013 she was awarded the prestigious status of “Steinway Artist” by Steinway & Sons, NY. Elena Ulyanova – Reviews & Testimonials What they’re saying… “Ms. Ulyanova’s performance of the Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini was nothing short of dazzling. She is a Lioness at the Keyboard, playing with more strength and technique than most men. In fact, her playing, marked by power and poetry, recalled to mind the legendary Gina Bachauer. It was breathtaking to watch her fingers flying over the keys, and the sound she drew from the piano was amazing.” “…a truly exciting performance distinguished by verve and panache. She is an artist not to be missed!” -Micaele Sparacino – ConcertoNet.com – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Landon Symphonette, February 2009 ———————————————————————————————- “Any uncertainty about Ulyanova’s command of Rachmaninoff’s bravura was swept away with an orchestral performance of the great Sonata [no. 2], in the Horowitz edition. The finale brought out all of the pianist’s heavy artillery – massive broken octaves, endurance, wide skips and brilliant passage work. The individual parts of the sonata often seem greater than the whole, but Ulyanova brought opulent passion that conquered all.” -Terry McNeill – Classical Sonoma – Concerts Grand Series Recital, November, 2008 ———————————————————————————————- “Elena Ulyanova’s performance in her recording with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dmitry Yablonsky is articulate and energetic, if musically conservative. At times she holds temps back, as in Var. 5 or midway through Var. 15, for emphasis and clarity.” -International Piano, March/April 2010, Page 63, Rachmaninoff CD ————————————————————————————————– “…Ms. Ulyanova’s delicate performance of Claude Debussy’s “Ondine.” She wove a diaphanous web for her aquatic sprite, suggestion rather than declamation fingered lovingly. As the little concert hall rocked back and forth, Ms. Ulyanova crept into the complex harmonic world of “Brouillards (Mists)” and kept her listeners afloat and a bit enchantingly lost in the fog. This was very lovely music making.” -Fred Kirshnit- New York Sun – Bargemusic Recital, May, 2008 ———————————————————————————————- Elena Ulyanova – Reviews & Testimonials “You cannot deny the panache of the Russian piano player Elena Ulyanova. She intensifies showpieces such as the Mephisto Waltz and the Tarantella from a Liszt produced in Russia, with all the restlessness of a wild breathing and rumbling volcano, which rarely slows down.” -Piano Wereld Magazine – Amsterdam, August, 2005 ———————————————————————————————- “Elena Ulyanova gives an impressive performance of the [Rachmaninoff] Second Concerto, with much lyrical warmth, and an especially fine slow movement. The [Paganini Rhapsody’s] strong contrasts seem tailor made for her, and she rises to the challenge quite brilliantly in the outer sections, playing with remarkable flair and vitality.” -International Rachmaninoff Society – September, 2006 ———————————————————————————————- “Elena Ulyanova is one of the most gifted musicians of the Moscow Conservatory. She has great virtuosity, brilliant and artistic temperament, unique interpretive expression, and a rich sound palette.” -Professor Victor Merzhanov, Moscow Conservatory – March, 2000 ———————————————————————————————- “A phenomenal gifted performer!! Her performance for the Beethoven Society was a rare treat!” -Roy Gillinson, Beethoven Society of America – November, 2006 ———————————————————————————————- “Fantastic! I finally heard Elena’s CD of Rachmaninoff’s Concerto in C minor and the Rhapsody. What can one say to such playing? It’s magnificent, both musically and technically. I send her my highest praise and admiration for such fantastic playing.” -Seymour Bernstein – April, 2007 ———————————————————————————————- “FANTASTIC AND INSPIRED, I couldn’t just listen while doing something else…I had to stop everything to just sit and listen. Elena’s [Fitzgerald Theater concert] performance was absolutely wonderful and riveting from beginning to end!” -Dr. Raymond T. Jackson – August, 2007 ———————————————————————————————- Elena Ulyanova – Reviews & Testimonials “A brilliant pianist.” -Vladimir Leyetchkiss, DePaul University – April, 2007 ———————————————————————————————- “Ulyanova’s playing in the [Rachmaninoff concerto no.2] first movement is generally very fine. There is an admirable clarity to her fingerwork and she really lets us hear the various simultaneous strands that permeate the solo writing.” -Owen E. Walton, Musicweb International – September, 2006 Elena Ulyanova – Repertoire Major Solo Works Bach Prelude & Fugue, Book I & II (Selected) 2nd English Suite in A minor, BWV 807 Partita No.5 in G Major, BWV 829 Beethoven Sonata No.2 in A major, Op.2, No.2 Sonata No.5 in C minor, Op.10, No.1 Sonata No.6 in F major, Op.10, No.2 Sonata No.7 in D major, Op.10, No.3 Sonata No.12 in Ab major, Op.26 (Funeral March) Sonata No.14 in C# minor, Op.27, No.2 (Moonlight) Sonata No.21 in C major, Op.53 (Waldstein) Sonata No.23 in F minor, Op.57 (Appassionata) Sonata No.31 in Ab major, Op.110 Brahms Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Book I & II, Op.35 Complete Piano Pieces, op.76 Hungarian Dances (Selected) Chopin Nocturnes (Selected) Impromptus (Selected) Andante Spianato & Grand Polonaise in Eb major Op.22 Scherzo No.3 in C# minor, Op.39 Scherzo No.4 in E major Op.54 Etudes Op.10/25 (Selected) Ballad No.1 in G minor, Op.23 Mazurkas (Selected) Sonata No.2 in Bb minor, Op.35 Elena Ulyanova – Repertoire Major Solo Works, continued Debussy Préludes, Book 2: I. Brouillards Préludes, Book 2: VIII. Ondine Préludes,
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