Ekaterina Dershavina

Russian classical pianist, born in 1967 in Moscow, Soviet Union.

Ekaterina Derzhavina started playing the piano at the age of 6. Her studies were first at the Specialized Gnessins Moscow Music School, then at the Gnessins Russian Music Academy, where she also finished the post-graduate course. Her professors were Yuri Polunin, Valeria Polunina and Vladimir Tropp.

In 1989, she received the third prize and the special prize at the VIII All-Russian Piano Competition, and in 1992 she won the first prize at the J.S. Bach International Piano Competition in Germany. From 1993 until 2006 she taught in the piano department of the Gnessins Russian Music Academy, and since 2003 has been a professor at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, teaching in the Historical and Modern Performing Arts faculty.