Alina Artemyeva

She was born in Kiev (Ukraine) in 1986. She began her musical studies at the age of six at the Kiev School of Music and continued her training at the Special Boarding School of Music attached to the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, with Professor Sabina Ryabova.
She later trained at the Fundación Banco Santander Piano Chair of the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía with Professor Dmitri Bashkirov (2003-2008). During those years she performed in a series of recitals in Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and Russia. She also performed with the Freixenet Orchestra of the Escuela Reina Sofía and with symphony orchestras in Alicante and Palma de Mallorca, where she gave concerts of Mozart and Beethoven under the direction of Antoni Ros Marbá and Philippe Bender, among others.
Since the 2008-2009 academic year, she has been an accompanist piano professor at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in the Fundación Damm Oboe Chair with Professor Hansjörg Schellenberger, and since 2010-2011, in the Telefónica Violin Chair with Professor Zakhar Bron. She has also been an accompanist pianist at the Santander Encounter since 2007.
She has been awarded special prizes at the Vladimir Horowitz International Piano Competition and at the Freiburg Competition. In 2008, she was selected to participate in the Santander Paloma O’Shea International Piano Competition, where she participated in two phases of the Competition. Together with Korean violist Wen Xiao Zheng, she won first prize at the Játiva International Chamber Music Competition.
In 2006, she was invited to participate in the Tribute to Mstislav Rostropovich at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. She has performed in prestigious venues such as the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid (Chamber Hall and Symphony Hall), the Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, the Palau de la Música in Valencia, the Argenta Hall of the Palacio de Festivales in Santander, and the Teatro Real in Madrid. As a soloist and member of chamber ensembles, she has participated in International Festivals and Encounters in Verbier, Porto, and Freiburg. As an accompanist pianist and chamber ensemble participant, she has performed with instrumentalists D. Bron, Wen Xiao Zheng, Zakhar Bron, C. Florea, A. Frolov, Anton Gakkel, Rafael Khismatulin, Paloma Friedhoff, and with singers such as Alda Caiello, Valeriano Gamghebeli, Tatiana Melnychenko, and M. Vólkova.
Since 2006 she has collaborated with the Asociación Amigos de Valeriano in various events with operatic repertoire. In 2009 she performed with the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, conducted by Valery Gergiev in Lisbon and, since that same year, she has been a member of the Plural Ensemble, directed by Fabián Panisello, with whom she performs in Madrid, Barcelona and Toledo with works by Gustav Mahler, Fabián Panisello, Olivier Messiaen, Benet Casablancas, among others.