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.
Later, she trained at the Fundación Banco Santander Piano Chair of the Reina Sofía School of Music 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 Reina Sofía School and with symphony orchestras of Alicante and Palma de Mallorca, where she offered concerts by Mozart and Beethoven under the direction of Antoni Ros Marbá or Philippe Bender, among others.
Since the 2008-2009 academic year, she has been a pianist accompanist at the Reina Sofía School of Music 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 a pianist accompanist at the Santander
since 2007. She has been awarded special prizes in the Vladimir Horowitz International Piano Competitions and in the Freiburg Competition. Likewise, in 2008 she was selected to participate in the Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition, where she participated in two phases of the Competition. Together with the Korean violist Wen Xiao Zheng, she won first prize in the Ciudad de Játiva International Chamber Music Competition.
In 2006 she was invited to participate in the Homage to Mstislav Rostropovich at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. She has frequented prestigious halls such as the National Music Auditorium of Madrid (Chamber Hall and Symphony Hall), the Academy of Fine Arts of Madrid, the Palau de la Música of Valencia, the Sala Argenta of the Santander Festival Palace or the Teatro Real of Madrid. As a soloist and member of chamber ensembles, she has participated in the International Festivals and Encounters in Verbier, Oporto and Freiburg. As a pianist accompanist and as a participant in chamber ensembles, she has performed with the 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 or 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.