Natalia Katyukova

NATALIA KATYUKOVA
pianist | coach | collaborator

“Natalia Katyukova was a poised tiger at the piano, responding to the singer’s nuances with her own powerful inflections. One was never aware of two artists at work, because their shaping was unified in a single vision.”
“Katyukova is a formidable artist, in the big, Romantic, Russian manner and her
sensibilities matched Appleby’s exuberance
and color.”
“Natalia Katyukova brought exuberance
to the harpsichord accompaniments
of the recitatives”
"Throughout, pianist Natalia Katyukova was a fine accompanist. She played with pearly tone and a delicate ear to Terfel’s musical line, echoing him and supplying her own feathery support.”

bio

Grammy-nominated and one of the highly regarded collaborators of her generation Russian pianist Natalia Katyukova served as an Assistant Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and a vocal coach at The Juilliard School, where she has devoted much of her time to the singers and pianists in the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. With a commitment to emerging artists and young professionals, she currently works as a collaborative piano faculty member at The Tianjin Juilliard School.

Katyukova has performed with instrumentalists and singers such as Sir Bryn Terfel, Anna Netrebko, and Irina Arkhipova, Ildar Abdrazakov, and at festivals and summer programs including the Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the Ravinia Festival, and the Tanglewood Music Festival. She has appeared in recitals throughout the U.S.A., Canada, Argentina, Japan, Europe, and other countries. She was nominated for a Grammy award for Harold Meltzer’s record, Songs and Structures in 2019.
A native of Klin, the city of Tchaikovsky, she was invited numerous times to play in the House-Museum of Tchaikovsky on the composer's own piano. She was featured as a solo pianist with renowned orchestras such as the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Fedoseyev, the “Haydn Orchestra" with Ola Rudner, and the Moscow State Symphony led by Dmitry Orlov.

Previously, she served on the faculties of Texas Wesleyan University, the University of Fine Arts (Russia), the Conservatory “Monteverdi" (Italy), and the Natchez Opera Festival. She has accompanied for events and master classes led by Renée Fleming, Malcolm Martineau, Sir Thomas Allen, Roger Vignoles, José van Dam, Martin Katz, and Warren Jones.

Katyukova is the recipient of many awards, including the Zonta Club Award and a Russian Arts Foundation grant. She is a prize-winner of the MTNA National Piano Competition (USA), the “Ettore Pozzoli" International Piano Competition (Italy), the “Carlo Soliva" International Piano Competition (Italy), and the International Chamber Music Competition (Ukraine). Katyukova's performances have been broadcast on WQXR in New York, WFMT in Chicago, and Radio Bavaria and Radio “South-West" in Germany.

A graduate of the Moscow State Conservatory, The Juilliard School, and the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, her teachers included Margo Garrett, Jonathan Feldman, Brian Zeger, Ken Noda, Tamas Ungar and Lev Naumov.

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“...working and making music on world concert stages with Natalia has been an absolute revelation. I knew she was good and incredibly talented but she is also super studious and immaculately well prepared in all my varied programmes. She is also calm and collected under the pressures of live performance which for me is a delight as I can be a chameleon on that stage and know she always has my back..."

Sir Bryn Terfel

bass-baritone

"...to conduct production rehearsals whilst she is at the piano is to have the soul of the most benevolent, curious, extraordinary orchestra enshrined into her sound and attitude. Natalia is one of the most hard working, deep-thinking musicians I have ever come across - she lives music to the extent that every word, every note, every breath counts..."

Robin Ticciati

conductor

“...working with Natalia has been one of the biggest joys ever. The depth of her musicianship and knowledge is truly inspiring and her playing was so beautiful I sometimes forgot to start my own phrases. She is also one of the loveliest people, extremely sensitive and supportive and very funny...."

Eva-Maria Westbroek

soprano

"...my work with Natalia has yielded nothing but amazing fruit. In teaching she is knowledgeable, patient, and calm and beyond that, she is a beautiful musician, who loves collaborating to make beautiful music. I have enjoyed learning and performing with her, and hope to continue to do so for years..."

Matthew Polenzani

tenor