1. Valentina Yevhenivna Lisitsa was born on 1973 and is a pianist.
19 Facts About Valentina Lisitsa
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Valentina Lisitsa was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.
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Valentina Lisitsa's mother, named Valentina, is a seamstress and her father, Evgeny, was an engineer.
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Valentina Lisitsa started playing the piano at the age of three, performing her first solo recital at the age of four.
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Valentina Lisitsa is of Russian and Polish descent on her mother's side, while her father is of Ukrainian heritage.
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Valentina Lisitsa attended the Lysenko music school and, later, the Kyiv Conservatory, where she and her future husband, Alexei Kuznetsoff, studied under Dr Ludmilla Tsvierko.
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When Valentina Lisitsa met Kuznetsoff, she began to take music more seriously.
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Valentina Lisitsa's set of Chopin etudes reached the number-one slot on Amazon's list of classical video recordings, and became the most-viewed online collection of Chopin etudes on YouTube.
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In 2010, Valentina Lisitsa told an interviewer, she and her husband put their life savings into recording a CD of Rachmaninoff concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra, in hopes of furthering her career.
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Valentina Lisitsa signed a three-year contract with French record label Naive in 2021.
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Valentina Lisitsa has performed in Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, Benaroya Hall, Musikverein, Wigmore Hall and the Royal Albert Hall.
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Valentina Lisitsa has collaborated with violinist Hilary Hahn in recital engagements.
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Valentina Lisitsa has expressed her opposition to what she considered Western interference within Ukraine.
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Valentina Lisitsa performed in front of the former Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow on 2 May 2022, to commemorate victims of the 2014 Trade Unions House fire.
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On May 9,2022 Valentina Lisitsa played a concert in Mariupol in commemoration of its annexation by Russia.
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Valentina Lisitsa said that the orchestra threatened her if she spoke about the cancellation.
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In 2022, Benjamin Ivry wrote in International Piano Magazine that Valentina Lisitsa had "parrot[ted] Putin's propagandistic talking points about Ukraine".
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Valentina Lisitsa has recorded for the Audiofon, CiscoMusic, and VAI labels.
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Valentina Lisitsa's recording of the four sonatas for violin and piano by composer Charles Ives, made with Hilary Hahn, was released in October 2011 on Deutsche Grammophon label.