Valentina Lisitsa

The pianist Valentina Lisitsa is called Justin Bieber in classical music. A graduate of the Kiev Conservatory, who has lived in America for 20 years, received such a nickname because of her unprecedented success on YouTube. The artist managed to transfer the phenomenal success from the Internet space to the international level. Today she is one of the most successful and desired performers at major venues in the world.

Valentina Evgenievna Lisitsa was born in December 1973 in the capital of Ukraine. Already at the age of 3, the girl knew how to play the piano. A year later, the young pianist gave her first solo concert.

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Interestingly, from an early age, Fox dreamed of becoming not a musician, but a professional chess player, but life decided otherwise. The musical biography of Valentina Lisitsa began at home, and continued at the capital's music school. After graduation, she continued to improve her talent at the Kiev Conservatory under the teacher Lyudmila Tsvirko.

In 1991, Fox and her husband won the first prize at the prestigious Dranoff International Two Piano Competition for piano duets. This allowed the couple to move to the United States, where they pursued a career as a concert pianist. In 1995, Valentina Lisitsa made her debut at the prestigious Mostly Mozart Festival, held in New York at the famous Lincoln Center. After the death of the manager, Fox's musical career was suspended. The pianist even thought about changing her occupation.

However, playing the piano is the only occupation that Valentina was great at. And she decided to try to "promote" herself on her own, without the help of expensive managers. The fox recalled the experience of Justin Bieber and decided that she could try to gain popularity through YouTube.

This path to success turned out to be quite difficult and long, but it worked. In 2007, the pianist uploaded to YouTube the first video with a sketch by Rachmaninov, then - Chopin. After that DVD with etudes released in 2004 were sold out instantly.

After 5 years, during which Valentina Lisitsa uploaded videos of her performance to YouTube, Decca, the oldest recording company in the recording industry, offered the pianist a contract. This happened in early May 2012.

And soon the artist made her debut in London. The concert took place at the legendary Royal Albert Hall. Since then, Valentina Lisitsa has been actively involved in concerts. During the period from 2008 to 2009, the pianist gave 80 concerts. She performs with the renowned São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic and the Prague Chamber Orchestras.

Often Valentina Lisitsa appeared in chamber duets with American cellist Lynn Harrell and violinist Jimmy Lin, violist Roberto Diaz, and British violinist Ida Handel. But Valentina herself believes that the most important for her was the duet with violinist Hilary Khan.

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In addition to the fact that Valentina Lisitsa is a talented pianist, she has an active civic position, which does not always coincide with the generally accepted one. Living in America, Valentina was not afraid to express her opinion about the events in her native Ukraine. Her comments on Twitter caused an unexpectedly loud resonance and scandal. The pianist openly declared her disagreement with the policy of the current government of Ukraine, referring to the continuation of the armed conflict in Donbass.

For this, the leadership of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in April 2015 struck the performer out of the concert program, citing Fox's "provocative comments" on her Twitter page. Valentina moved to France.

In June 2015, the pianist performed in Donetsk. She arrived here specially on June 22 - on the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. The event took place in the park of the Lenin Komsomol, where about 7 thousand people gathered who wanted to listen to the pianist's play. The concert was named "Symphony of Fire", as a real light performance with a lot of illumination unfolded on the stage. Later, the pianist held a number of master classes for children, students of Donbass music schools.

In the West, the Fox met with misunderstanding on the part of public organizations, which called for a boycott of the musician's concerts. In 2018, after a series of repeated appearances in the DPR, Czech activists with the slogans "Make music, not war!" staged a protest in Prague.

Nevertheless, the artist continues to perform with success in different countries of the world, including her at Carnegie Hall, New York's Avery Fischer Hall, the Great Concert Hall of the Vienna Musical Society and other venues.

For her own promotion, the artist uses not only the YouTube channel and Twitter, her photos and videos also appear on Instagram.

Personal life of Valentina Lisitsa is inextricably linked with her work. Even in her youth, living in Kiev, the girl met her future husband Alexei Kuznetsov. Together they attended the Lysenko Music School and studied at the Kiev Conservatory under the teacher Lyudmila Tsvirko. Together, the couple moved to the United States and then to France. In America, a family of pianists settled in North Carolina. The musicians now live in Italy.

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Pianist Alexey Kuznetsov is not only a husband, but also Valentina's partner in many musical duets. The couple has a son, Benjamin.

In August 2019, Valentina Lisitsa made another visit to the territory of Donbass. This time the pianist performed at the railway station in Debaltseve with a unique action "Music for Peace and Revival". In addition, a requiem concert in memory of Alexander Zakharchenko and Iosif Kobzon took place, in which Lisitsa also took part. With her performance, the musician opened the new season of the Donetsk Philharmonic.

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In the fall of 2019, Valentina visited Sevastopol, where the VI Crimean Music Festival took place, in which classical performers from many countries of the world took part.

In 2019, the artist expanded her discography with a collection of 10 albums with the complete collected works of Pyotr Tchaikovsky for piano, released on the Decca / Universal label.

1996 - Valentina 2010 - Piano Recital 2011 - Charles Ives: Four Sonatas 2012 - Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2013 - Rachmaninov: Moments Musicaux 2014 - Études: Chopin, Schumann 2016 - Love Story: Piano Themes From Cinema's Golden Age 2019 - Tchaikovsky: The Complete Solo Piano Works

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