Nataliya Medvedovskaya

BIO || RECORDINGS

Her recent awards include “Best Classical Composition” and “Best Instrumentalist” from Indie Music Channel (Hollywood, 2015); Honorable Mention in the 14th Billboard Song Contest; Honorable Mention in the 2007 “Song of the Year” International Song Contest; and Honor Award at the 2006 Great American Song Contest, Second Prize as a composer at the International Competition “Golden Channukia” (Berlin, 2005).

She won First Prize at the 1995 International Composers’ Competition of the Gartow Foundation (St. Petersburg, Russia).

A graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Russia, with a double major in composition and piano performance, she moved to New York City in 2003.

She had a World Premiere of her commissioned “Red Revolution in the Air” epic orchestral piece performed by Siberian State Symphony Orchestra (Krasnoyarsk Philharmonic Hall, Russia, 2017), as well as a World Premiere of her commissioned 2-hour length orchestral ballet based on the “Adventures of Nils” fairytale (Maryland, 2014). Her String Quartet # 1 was performed  by St. Petersburg Quartet at Mohawk Trial Concerts (MA, 2006), Summer Mountain Festival (2005), Edinburgh Festival of Art, Music, and Animation (Scotland, 1997) as well as in Yale University, Merkin Hall and other concert venues throughout USA and abroad. The piece was broadcast by WQXR internationally and honorably acclaimed in the Washington Post, LA Times, St. Paul Edition, and Charleston Daily Mail.

Medvedovskaya’s “First Snow” for oboe, bassoon, violin and piano was performed by Poulenc Trio at the “Wall to Wall Behind the Wall” International Festival (Symphony Space, NY, 2010), An Die Music Series (MD, 2009), and was broadcast by “Classical Music Discovery” radio station (2015).  Nataliya played her songs at Whiskey A Go-Go (Hollywood, 2015). Her String Quartet # 2 was performed  at Albuquerque Music Festival (NM, 2007), in the Museum of Fine Arts (FL, 2007), and at the Chamber America Conference (New York, NY, 2007).  Her humorous “Pantomimes” suite for clarinet and piano was premiered at the International Clarinet Convention (GA, 2006). In 2004 she composed and recorded three soundtracks for the American Film “I Will Avenge You, Iago!”

Nataliya Medvedovskaya’s piano performances are noted for their “brilliance, dexterity and incredible dynamic control” (New York Stringer Magazine). They were favorably reviewed in NYC Concert Review and New York Stringer Magazine. Medvedovskaya’s engagements include a piano part of 21 Rachmaninoff songs on a Mapleshade Records CD-release (2006), concerts  in Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, Bargemusic, Bechstein Pianos, Tenri Cultural Institute, National Opera Center, Di Menna Center, and other venues. Her repertoire ranges from Scarlatti to contemporary music of living composers as well as her own compositions.