Year of birth: 2003
Place of birth: Moscow
Educated in: Moscow
Place of residence: Geneva
(Plays in Paris)
Finalist of the 65th Ferruccio Busoni
International Piano Competition
Watch Ekaterina Bonyushkina performance.
F. Liszt - Études d'exécution transcendante, S. 139: no. 5 "Feux Follets" S. Rachmaninov - Études-Tableaux op. 33, no. 3 B. Bartók - Piano Sonata, Sz. 80
Born in Moscow in 2003, Ekaterina Bonyushkina is a laureate of a number of international competitions. In September 2014, she enrolled at the Gnessin Special Music School (Evgeny Talisman's class, then Boris Berezovsky's since 2019). In September 2022, she was accepted at the Haute École de musique de Genève in Professor Nelson Goerner's class. In July-August 2019, on the recommendation of Martha Argerich and Nelson Goerner, Ekaterina was chosen to take part in the Verbier Festival's Academy for Emerging Soloists, where she attended solo piano and chamber music masterclasses by J.-E. Bavouzet, K. Hellwig, J. Achucarro, S. Babayan, P. Frank, G. Takács-Nagy and F. Rados. She has also taken part in masterclasses with H. Milne, R. Shereshevskaya, J. Fialkowska, Z. Chochieva and P. Cassard.
Due to health reasons the candidates Shotaro Nishimura and Zixi Chen could not participate in the GPP 2022. They received the possibility to participate in this edition.
Candidates who withdrew from the competition:
Bily Robert
Deng Yubo
Durliat Gabriel
Guo Yungyung
Han Wenfang
Lee Shinyoung
Martinelli Riccardo
Park Chaeyoung
Thomazinho Lucas
Wang Jiapeng