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Appears on: Tchaikovsky's Pathetique
Natasha Paremski last appeared with the Oregon Symphony on February 8, 2016, when she performed Paul Schoenfield's Four Parables with conductor Carlos Kalmar.
With her consistently striking and dynamic performances, pianist Natasha Paremski reveals astounding virtuosity and voracious interpretive abilities. She continues to generate excitement from all corners as she wins over audiences with her musical sensibility and powerful, flawless technique.
The 2017–18 season sees Natasha's return recitals at the Wigmore Hall and Istanbul Resitalleri, as well as returns to the North Carolina, Oregon, Winnipeg, Colorado, and Columbus symphonies and her debut with Kansas City Symphony. In addition, her recording of Fred Hersch's Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky – commissioned for her by the Gilmore Festival – will be released on the Steinway & Sons label alongside Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
Natasha is a regular return guest of many major orchestras, including Minnesota Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Grant Park Festival, Winnipeg Symphony, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Elgin Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Virginia Symphony, and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom she has performed every year since 2008 in venues such as Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, and Cadogan Hall.
She has performed with many major orchestras in North America including the Dallas, Oregon, San Diego, Toronto, Baltimore, Houston, and Nashville symphonies; NAC Orchestra in Ottawa; and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She has toured extensively in Europe with such orchestras as Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Vienna's Tonkünstler Orchester, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestre de Bretagne, the Orchestre de Nancy, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchester in Zurich, and Moscow Philharmonic; and under the direction of conductors including Peter Oundjian, Andres Orozco-Estrada, Jeffrey Kahane, James Gaffigan, Dmitri Yablonski, Tomas Netopil, JoAnn Falletta, Fabien Gabel, Rossen Milanov, and Andrew Litton.
A passionate chamber musician, Natasha is a regular recital partner of Grammy-winning cellist Zuill Bailey, with whom she has recorded a number of CDs. Their Britten album on Telarc debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Chart, remaining there for a number of weeks, in addition to being featured on The New York Times Playlist. Their French recital record is due for release in fall 2018 on the Steinway & Sons label.
Natasha was awarded several prestigious prizes at a very young age, including the Gilmore Young Artists prize in 2006 at the age of 18 and the Prix Montblanc in 2007. In September 2010, she was awarded the Classical Recording Foundation's Young Artist of the Year. Her first recital album was released in 2011 to great acclaim, topping the Billboard Classical Charts, and was re-released on the Steinway & Sons label in September 2016 featuring Balakirev's Islamey recorded on Steinway's revolutionary new Spirio technology. In 2012, she recorded Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Rachmaninoff's Paganini Rhapsody with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Fabien Gabel on the orchestra's label distributed by Naxos.
With a strong focus on new music, Natasha's growing repertoire reflects an artistic maturity beyond her years. In the 2010–11 season, she played the world premiere of a sonata written for her by Gabriel Kahane, which was also included in her solo album. At the suggestion of John Corigliano, Natasha brought her insight and depth to his Piano Concerto with the Colorado Symphony.
Natasha continues to extend her performance activity and range beyond the traditional concert hall. In December 2008, she was the featured pianist in choreographer Benjamin Millepied's Danses Concertantes at New York's Joyce Theater. She was featured in a major two-part film for BBC Television on the life and work of Tchaikovsky, shot on location in St. Petersburg, performing excerpts from Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto and other works.
Natasha began her piano studies at the age of four with Nina Malikova at Moscow's Andreyev School of Music. She then studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music before moving to New York to study with Pavlina Dokovska at Mannes College of Music, from which she graduated in 2007. Natasha made her professional debut at age nine with El Camino Youth Symphony in California. At the age of 15, she debuted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and recorded two discs with Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. Born in Moscow, Natasha moved to the United States at the age of eight, became a U.S. citizen shortly thereafter, and is now based in New York.