Hanna Shybayeva (born 16 March 1979 in Minsk) is a Dutch pianist.
Born into a family of musicians, Hanna Shybayeva began her piano education at the age of six.
In 1995, she got a piano degree at the Belarus National College of Music. After graduating school she studied at the Belarus Academy of Music Minsk until 1998. From 1998 to 1999, she studied at Hochschule für Musik Dortmund (Germany) and at the International Music Academy "Ivo Pogorelich" Lovran (Croatia). In 1999, she began her studies with Naum Grubert at the Royal Conservatory The Hague in the Netherlands where she got her Bachelor of Music degree in 2003 and also received her Master of Music degree "with distinction" two years later. Under patron of Rudolf Jansen she specialized in lieder accompaniment from 2008 to 2010. [1] [2]
Hanna Shybayeva had appearances with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, the Belarus State Symphony Orchestra, the Dortmund Chamber Orchestra, the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Belgrade Symphony Orchestra, the Gelders Orkest, the North Netherlands Orchestra and the Niederrheinisches Kammerochester. She collaborated with conductors such as Lydia O’Riordan, Moshe Atzmon, Joachim Simon, Alexander Anisimov, Angel Shurev, Marc Russel-Smith, Yaron Traub, Gennadi Provatorov and Neeme Järvi. [1] [2]
She gave solo and chamber music recitals in Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Serbia, Ireland, the US, Canada, Belgium and the Netherlands. Festival performances include among others Festival Classique Den Haag, West Cork Chamber Music Festival, International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht, Gergiev Festival Rotterdam, Grachtenfestival Amsterdam, Sound Of Stockholm Festival, Ticino Musica Festival Switzerland and Festival van Vlaanderen Belgium. She performed for TV and Radio stations in Germany, Serbia, Belarus, Russia, the US, the Netherlands and Canada. [1]
From 2009 to present, she is a core member of the New European Ensemble (EU) and also of the chamber music project “Symphonic Intimacy” with Ysaye String Trio (the Netherlands). In 2010, she founded the White Crow Music Festival Leiden (Netherlands) and was its artistic director until 2015. [1] [2]
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