Vita in english
Sofja Gülbadamova,
prizewinner of many international competitions in USA, Spain, France, Germany and Russia, has won 2008 the first prizes at two prestigious piano competitions in France: the International Piano Competition in Aix-en-Provence as well as the 6th International Francis Poulenc Piano Competition, where she also received the special prize for the best interpretation of Poulenc’s music. 2010 brought new success: in August at the Rosario Marciano International Piano Competition (Vienna, Austria) Sofja Gülbadamova was awarded the Grand Prix and a few months later, in October, she won the 2nd prize at the International Piano Competition “André Dumortier” in Belgium.
Last highlights include a debut recital in London in the St.Martin-in-the-Fields in April 2010 during the “World Concert Pianists” series as well as a very successful tour throughout Chili in January 2010, where she gave recitals in the Teatro Municipal in Viña del Mar and during the festivals “Semanas Musicales” in Reñaca as well as the „Semanas Musicales“ in Frutillar. She also gave a masterclass in the “Conservatory Sergei Prokofiev” in Viña del Mar.
In summer 2010 Sofja Gülbadamova appeared as a soloist with the Orchestre de Chambre de la Nouvelle Europe (conductor – Nicolas Krauze) at the Festival d’Hardelot and gave her debut recital at the “Liszt en Provence” festival, both in France. These concerts were highly acclaimed by the press.
In 2009, she was invited to give recitals at such venues as “Schönberger Musiksommer” (Germany), the international festival “Les nuits du Suquet” in Cannes as well as the Festival de la Vézère, both in France. Another highlight of the year 2009 has been the performance as a soloist in Antonin Dvorak Concerto for piano and orchestra at the “Piano nights” festival in Chisinau (Moldavia).
Sofja Gülbadamova performs regularly at famous festivals, such as the Schleswig-Holstein music festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Rheingau Festival (Germany), the International Music Festival Lucerne (Switzerland), the International Music Festival Moulin d’Andé (France) and the “Salzburger Schlosskonzerte” (Austria).
Sofja Gülbadamova concertizes extensively throughout Europe and the United States, for instance in France she appeared at prestigious venues such as the Cité de la Musique and the Salle Cortot in Paris as well as at the Arsenal in Metz, to name just a few. Invited by numerous German cities to perform, she played with the State Radio and Television Orchestra of Russia, the Collegium Instrumentale Halle, the Magdeburg Philharmonic, the Lübeck Philharmonic in Germany among the others.
As a chamber musician she collaborates with such outstanding artists as James Tocco, Denis Goldfeld, Priya Mitchell, Gert von Bülow, Aleksandr Khramouchin, Guillaume Martigné as well as the Prometeo Quartet and the Aviv Quartet.
Sofja Gülbadamova was born in 1981 in Moscow where she began her musical studies at the Gnessin Special Music School with Mikhail Khokhlov. She continued her academic piano courses at the Musikhochschule Lübeck in the class of the exceptionnal American pianist James Tocco. She also studied at the Paris Conservatory with Jacques Rouvier as well as at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with Guigla Katsarava and David Lively, where she was awarded a scholarship by the Zygmunt Zaleski Foundation.
She has recorded for Russian, American, Polish, Spanish, French and German radio and television. Several CD recordings have already been published in Germany and France, notably at the “Passavant Music” recording company.