Maria Meerovitch

Maria Meerovitch was born in St.Petersburg to non-musicians family. Nevertheless music has been an important part of family’s life and at the age of six Maria began her musical education. At the age of eight she performed at St.Petersburg Philharmonic Hall for the first time and was complimented by Grigory Sokolov, one of the greatest musicians of our time. She continued her studies at St.Petersburg Conservatory’s junior Music Institute with M.Freindling and M.Lebed and later under Prof. Anatol Ugorski at the Rimsky-Korsakov St.Petersburg State Conservatory, with piano as principal subject. In 1990 Maria came to Belgium after having received a scholarship from “Fonds Alex de Vries”- Y. Menuhin Foundation, graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp (cum laude) and immediately began teaching piano and chamber music at the same institution. She subsequently won first prizes at several International Competitions (G.B. Viotti, Italy; Ch. Hennen, the Netherlands) and has been performing around the world ever since appearing in solo and chamber music recitals in the USA, Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, The Republic of South Africa, South Korea, Israel and Europe. Highlights include Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Festival International d’Art Lyrique (Aix-en-Provence), Bad-Kissingen Musik Festival, Baxter Hall (Cape Town), Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Cité de la Musique (Paris), Opera City Hall (Tokyo), Musikhalle (Hamburg), Newport Music Festival (Newport), Martha Argerich’s Meeting Point (Beppu), Theatre des Champs Elysees (Paris), etc. She collaborated and made a number of recordings with a variety of international chamber music partners including her close duo partnership with Sergei Nakariakov, with whom she appeared in an ARTE production “Ich war nie ein Wunderkind” in 2005. Maria Meerovitch has appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras around the globe including Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo New Vivaldi Ensemble, Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, Nordic Symphonie Orchestra , etc.. In recent years her passion for teaching young musicians has brought Maria to the USA, Germany, South Africa and Belgium where she has given several master classes and has been working on a study concerning treatment of piano playing related tendonitis based on work of her legendary teacher M.R.Freindling. Maria’s latest solo CD recording includes works of W.A.Mozart, F.Chopin and P.I.Tchaikovsky and has been dedicated to her parents whose support and motivation she has been feeling through her whole life.