Valentina Lisitsa
| Valentina Lisitsa | |
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| Background information | |
| Born |
25 March 1973 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Classical pianist |
| Instruments | Piano |
| Website | valentinalisitsa |
Valentina Lisitsa (Ukrainian: Валентина Лисиця, translit. Valentyna Lysytsya; born 25 March 1973) is a Ukrainian-Americanvirtuoso pianist who used to reside in North Carolina before moving to Canada, and then to France.
Lisitsa is among the most frequently viewed pianists on YouTube – particularly of her recordings of Romantic Era virtuosa piano composers, including Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Lisitsa independently launched her career on social media, without initially signing with a tour promoter or record company.
Lisitsa was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1973. She started playing the piano at the age of three, performing her first solo recital at the age of four. She is of Russian and Polish descent.
Despite her early disposition to music, her dream at that point was to become a professional chess player. Lisitsa attended the Lysenko music school and, later, Kiev Conservatory, where she and her future husband, Alexei Kuznetsoff, studied under Dr. Ludmilla Tsvierko. It was when Lisitsa met Kuznetsoff that she began to take music more seriously. In 1991, they won the first prize in The Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition in Miami, Florida. That same year, they moved to the United States to further their careers as concert pianists. In 1992 the couple married. Their New York debut was at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in 1995.
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