Maria Narodytska graduated from the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in 2011 as a pianist under the guidance of Professor Natalia Tolpygo and in 2014 as a composer, guided by Iryna Aleksiychuk. Maria holds a degree of Master of Music Arts. She now studies in Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg under the guidance of Professor Ralf Nattkemper.
She is the First Prize Winner of the International Competition for Young Pianists “Le Muse” (Agropoli, Italy); “Grand-Prix” Winner of the Petar Konjovic International Competition for Young Musicians (Belgrade, Serbia); First Prize Winner of the “School of the XXI century” International Piano Competition (Kiev, Ukraine); First Prize Winner of the Evgen Stankovich International Competition for Instrumentalists (Kiev, Ukraine); First Prize Winner of “Future Piano Stars” International Competition, owner of a silver medal at Manhattan International Music Competition, diploma owner at The Gurwitz International Piano Competition as well as a prize winner at more than 25 other international piano and composition competitions.
Narodytska released her first album under the OnClassical label of works by Brahms, further distributed by Naxos of America. She is currently preparing her second album for Nationalux, part of a prize from the Richter International Piano Competition, where she was named “the most beloved artist.”
You can hear Narodytska’s First Round performance during Session 3 on Saturday, August 1.