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Valentina Lisitsa

The First Piano Recital in Romania

Valentina Lisitsa is having her first piano recital on the Romanian Atheneum stage on November 5. The Ukraine-born artist released in 2013 her latest CD, simply titled Rachmaninov, presenting a startlingly fresh interpretation of all four of Sergei Rachmaninov’s Piano Concertos, plus his ever-popular Paganini Rhapsody. The album is an impressive follow up to her sell-out spectacular recital in London's Royal Albert Hall before an audience of 8000 people in June 2012

Lisitsa was born in Ukraine, where she started to play piano at the age of three and performed her first solo recital at four. In 1991 she won the first prize in The Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition together with Alexei Kuznetsoff and they now reside in the USA.

Lisitsa, aka “The YouTube Pianist”, is the first classical artist to have converted her internet success into a global concert career. She posted her first video on the internet platform YouTube in 2007, a recording of the Etude op. 39/6 by Sergei Rachmaninov. In a broadcast interview, she said: "My first YouTube clip was a lo-fi VHS recording on an awful school piano, and my hands were out of sync with the sound. But even so, my message came across to people. Straight away they started telling me that my interpretations meant something to them, that they changed things, that they stood out." The click-through rate went up and up, and more videos followed. Her YouTube channel now records over 60 million clicks and more than 90,000 subscribers, while in July 2012 she had her recital in London's Royal Albert Hall in front of an audience of 8000 people.

In the summer 2010, thousands of music fans worldwide witnessed bedazzled the live broadcast of Lisitsa’s practice sessions, allowing her to show a different aspect of her artistic persona. For two weeks, world audiences watched her learn and prepare to the utmost detail almost 4 hours of new music in daily 14 hour long sessions.  The experience proved to be for her followers not just time spent together but also real master classes in which they learned to better play the classic pieces she was practicing. She admits of having a special affinity for Rahmaninov and Beethoven.