Natasha Paremski, Piano

Biography

With her dynamic performances, 22-year-old pianist Natasha Paremski reveals astounding virtuosity and voracious interpretive abilities. In the summer of 2009, she appeared at the Colorado Music Festival and with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. In the coming season, she will return to perform with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, will appear at Lincoln Center as part of the "What Makes it Great?" series, and will tour the UK with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

In the 2008-2009 season, Ms. Paremski made her Asian debut with the National Symphony Orchestra in Taipei and gave a recital in Tokyo; she also toured the United Kingdom with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. In the summer of 2007, she gave her Spanish debut with recitals in Las Palmas and Oviedo. She also performed Rachmaninoff s Second Concerto as a last-minute replacement for the opening nights of both the Caramoor Festival in Katonah, NY and the Bravo! Vail Valley Festival in Vail, Colorado. Her past appearances include performances with the San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Houston Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Dallas Symphony, New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall, and San Diego Symphony. Her international credits include concerts with the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich, Residentie Orchestra, and Royal Scottish National Orchestra. She has also given recitals at London's Wigmore Hall, the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, the Schloss Elmau and Verbier festivals, and on the Rising Stars Series of the Gilmore and Ravinia festivals.

She was featured in a major two-part film for BBC Television on the life and work of Tchaikovsky. In the winter of 2007, she participated with Simon Keenlyside and Maxim Vengerov in the filming of "Twin Spirits", a project starring Sting and Trudie Styler that explores the music and writing of Robert and Clara Schumann, which will be released on DVD.