Ekaterina Alekseevna Murina |

Ekaterina Murina

Ekaterina Murina has a very significant place on the Leningrad concert horizon. For almost a quarter of a century she has been performing on the stage. At the same time, her pedagogical activity is developing at the Leningrad Conservatory, with which the entire creative life of the pianist is connected. Here she studied until 1961 in the class of P. A. Serebryakova, and she improved in graduate school with him. At that time, Murina, not without success, took part in various musical competitions. In 1959, she was awarded a bronze medal at the VII World Festival of Youth and Students in Vienna, and in 1961 she won the second prize at the All-Union Competition, losing the championship only to R. Kerer.

Murina owns a very wide repertoire, which includes large works and miniatures by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Brahms, Debussy. The best features of the pianist’s performing style – artistry, emotional richness, inner grace and nobility – are clearly manifested in the interpretation of Russian and Soviet music. Her programs include works by Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Taneyev, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Shostakovich. Ekaterina Murina did a lot to promote the creativity of Leningrad authors; at different times she introduced the audience to piano pieces by B. Goltz, L. Balai, V. Gavrilin, E. Ovchinnikov, Y. Falik and others.

Since 1964, Ekaterina Murina has been teaching at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, now she is a professor, head. Department of Special Piano. She held hundreds of concerts throughout the USSR, collaborated with outstanding conductors G. Rozhdestvensky, K. Kondrashin, M. Jansons. She has toured to Germany, France, Switzerland, England, Korea, Finland, China, gives master classes in Russia, Finland, Korea, Great Britain.

Grigoriev L., Platek Ya., 1990