Viktoria Postnikova

Viktoria Postnikova was born in Moscow into a family of musicians. From the age of three, she amazed those around her with her ability to reproduce on the piano, with both hands and by ear, the works she heard her mother teaching her pupils. From then on, there was little doubt that she had a vocation as a musician.
She was admitted to the Moscow Central School of Music, and at the age of seven gave her first public performance with an orchestra. In the following years, she studied at the Moscow Conservatory in Jakob Flière’s class. The numerous prizes she won in international competitions (Leeds International Piano Competition in England, Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Vianna da-Motta Competition in Lisbon, Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow) established her reputation in both the Soviet Union and Western Europe.

Viktoria Postnikova performs in virtually all the major musical centres of Europe, Asia and America (where she has been compared in the press to Vladimir Horowitz). She has played with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Amsterdam Concertgebauw, the BBC Orchestra in London, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National de France, and all the most prestigious orchestras in Russia and Japan, under conductors such as Sir Adrian Boult, Sir John Barbirolli, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Simon Rattle, Kurt Masur, and of course Gennady Rojdestvensky.

Her countless recordings include the only complete piano works by Tchaikovsky currently in existence, Tchaikovsky’s three concertos with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Mussorgsky’s complete solo piano works, Prokofiev’s five concertos, as well as concertos by Busoni, Brahms, Chopin and many others.

Her unrivalled repertoire includes almost 80 concertos for piano and orchestra.
In addition to her activities as a soloist and recitalist, Viktoria Postnikova devotes herself passionately to chamber music. Her chamber music career includes concerts in Switzerland, France, England and Moscow with artists such as Yehudi Menuhin and Julia Varad.