Natacha Kudritskaya

Young Natacha first stepped into the classical music world as a student of the Lysenko Music School in Kiev, where she completed her training at the age of seventeen. After these formative years, she was part of three tours across the USA between 1996 and 2002 with the Kiev Symphony Orchestra; her very first experience as a concert musician. 

She soon after entered the Tchaïkovski National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kiev where she followed the teachings of Irina Barinova and Igor Riabov and applied for the competitive CNSM in Paris at the age of nineteen. She studied simultaneously in both these institutions and graduated with the highest distinctions and honours of the jury. 

Four personalities have left their imprint on Natacha’s pianistic technique. First, Alain Planès, ‘my first professor, simply the representation of elegance, possessed a sheer sophisticated style’. Then came Jacques Rouvier, ‘very attached to the text, a rigorous and meticulous personality’. Her encounter with Ferenc Rados in Budapest, later on, was crucial: ‘he taught me how to read in between the notes’ and, finally, Henri Barda ‘felt like a hurricane devastating my whole work and training, for there to reign only the power of music’. 

Rameau’s work marked a turning point in her approach of pianistic technique and she dedicated two albums to this composer: first in 2009, in association with Luciano Berio, and then in 2012, with the label 1001 Notes. 

The year 2009 was marked by competitions, before a time spent refining her technique, her first recitals and an encounter with chamber music to which she has regularly returned. It was also the year she was invited to perform in the most prominent festivals and concert halls across France and Europe. 

Since 2015 Natacha Kudritskaya has been part of the Universal Music catalogue.