Praised by critics for “a formidable technique, delicacy and exquisite sensitivity,” Moscow pianist Natalia Kuchaeva has resided in Spain since 2009.
She trained at the Music School affiliated with the P. I. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory and at the Gnessin Academy, later at the Lucerne University of Music (Switzerland), with internationally renowned teachers such as Vladimir Tropp and Konstantin Lifschitz.
She recently completed the Master of Lied “Victoria de los Ángeles” at the ESMUC in Barcelona, receiving Matrícula de Honor (Honors).
She has been awarded on numerous occasions in international competitions, such as the Anton Rubinstein in Paris (France, 1998), the José Iturbi in Valencia (Spain, 2006), the Alexandr Scriabin in Grosetto (Italy, 2008) and the Ettlingen and the Pianale in Germany, among others.
For 10 years she has been a répétiteur for opera at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, collaborating in more than 40 productions with conductors such as M. Benini, R. Balsadonna, C. Rovaris, I. Abel, I. Sampil, J. Lacombe, A. Spering, J. Axelrod, I. López-Reynoso, J. M. Perez-Sierra, O. Diaz, P. Halffter , S. Serrate, J. M. Busto, and singers such as J. Bros, A. Mead, A. Arteta, N. Fabiola, J.P rats, P. Yende, J. J. Rodriguez, L. Nucci, M. Gantner, G. Kunde, P. Seiffert, among others.
At the same time, she has developed an intense concert activity in international cycles and festivals such as Bienal de Flamenco 2020, Seville; Rafael Orozco Festival, Córdoba; Festival Otoño Clásico (Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon); Casa Bösen-dorfer (Montreux, Switzerland); Casa Steingräber (Bayreuth, Germany); Teatro Petruzelli (Bari, Italy); Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville; Auditorio de Tenerife; Bolshoi Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and Act City, Concert Hall (Hamamatsu, Japan), etc.
Since 2021 she has been a guest professor at the Galamian Academy in Malaga, where she teaches the Brainin Method: “Development of musical intellect“ .
She forms a piano duo with her husband, piano professor Jorge Lechado. Among her performances, the concert at the presentation of the Federico García Lorca International Poetry Prize, in the Manuel de Falla Auditorium in Granada, with the presence of the then Princes of Asturias, stands out.
Since November 2022 she has been a pianist accompanist professor of the Voice Chair “Alfredo Kraus” Fundación Ramón Areces of the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid.