About

After Anastasia’s Carnegie Hall Debut in 2006, the New York Concert Review wrote: "For a critic, hearing a new pianist with a truly warm, luscious tone is like breathing in the scent of jasmine blooming - a pleasure to be recalled again and again - and so I'm happy to report that from the first note she touched at her Weill Hall recital, Anastasia Seifetdinova was a genuine pleasure to listen to. Every piece, every measure, every note - no matter how complex the texture, no matter how many strands of melody and accompaniment - was wrapped in a halo of golden tone..."

Born in Kiev, Ukraine, Anastasia Seifetdinova gave her first solo recital at the age of eleven. Ms. Seifetdinova is a graduate of the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg, Germany, and holds a Master’s and a Doctorate degrees from The Hartt School at the University of Hartford.

In 2003 Anastasia received First Prize in the 14th International Piano Competition for Young Pianists in Rome, Italy, and was awarded a Special Prize. In year 2006 Anastasia won the Puigcerda International Piano Competition in Spain. In the same year she recorded the complete works for piano and orchestra by Balakirev with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra for NAXOS records. In 2008 Ms. Seifetdinova received the “Outstanding Award”, which granted her a return engagement to give a second solo recital at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In 2010 Anastasia was awarded a Special Prize for the best interpretation of French composition at the International Piano Competition “Parnassos” in Mexico. Her solo recital in 2008 at the Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago was broadcast live on WFMT Radio, in Internet, and on the TV-Station “Channel 25“; Anastasia was invited to play there again in 2011. Her career continues with numerous appearances as a soloist both in concertos with orchestra, in solo recitals, and in chamber music concerts in Ukraine, Germany, Macedonia, Italy, Switzerland, France, Russia, USA, and Japan. Anastasia’s recent engagements included a performance at the Bolshoi Hall of Moscow Conservatory as well as solo appearances with orchestras in the United States and Germany featuring concerti by Prokofieff, Mozart, Grieg, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky. In 2014 her new CD "Music of Russian-Jewish composers for oboe and piano" was released. Currently, Anastasia is working on her two new solo CD's for Centaur Records.

In 2013, Anastasia was granted the Extraordinary Abilities in the Arts permanent US residence, as one of a small percentage of those who have risen to the top in their field of endeavor. Anastasia served as an Adjunct Faculty in Piano and Chamber Music at the Hartt School, and is currently on faculty of the New England Conservatory in Boston.

Music

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- French Suite No. 5, G Major, BWV 816
- Partita No. 5, G Major, BWV 829
- Italian Concerto, F Major, BWV 971
- Preludes and Fugues
"WTK Part I": c sharp minor, BWV 849; d minor, BWV 851; E Major, BWV 859; G sharp minor, BWV 863; A flat Major, BWV 862; f minor, BWV 85; F sharp Major, BWV 858; f sharp, BWV 859.
"WTK Part II": d minor, BWV 875; F Major, BWV 880; A Major, BWV 888; a minor, BWV 889.

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
- Sonata G Major, K 523 / L 490 / P 527

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
- Sonata E flat Major, Hob. XVI 53
- Sonata b minor, Hob. XVI 32
- Sonata g minor, Hob. XVI 44

Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)
- Sonata f sharp minor, op.26 Nr. 5

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
-10 Variations G Major on the theme "Unser dummer Pöbel meint", KV 455
- Sonata D Major, KV 576
- Sonata B flat Major, KV 281
- Sonata B flat Major, KV 570
- Sonata B flat Major, KV 333
- Sonata F Major, KV 332

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
- Sonata No. 2 A Major, op.2 Nr.2
- Sonata No. 8 "Pathétique", c minor, op.13
- Sonata No. 11 B flat Major, op.22
- Sonata No. 21 C Major "Waldstein", op.53
- Sonata No. 26 E flat Major "Les Adieux", op.81a
- Sonata No. 31 A flat Major, op. 110
- Sonata No. 32 c minor, op.111
- Alla ingharese quasi un capriccio “Die Wut über den verlorenen Groschen”, op.129

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- Sonata A Major, op. posth.120, D 664
- Sonata c minor, D 958
- Lieder-Transcriptions

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)
- Rondo-capricioso E-Dur, op.14
- Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words)

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
- Scherzo No.1, b minor, op.20
- Scherzo No.3, c sharp minor, op.39
- 12 Etudes, op.10
- Four Mazurkas, op.30
- Sonata No.3, b minor, op.58
- Nocturne F sharp Major, op.15 Nr.2
- Ballade No.1, g minor, op.23
- Ballade No.2, F Major op.38
- Ballade No.4, f minor, op.52

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
- Papillons, op.2
- Toccata C Major, op.7
- Sonata No.1, f sharp minor, op.11
- Sonata No. 2, g minor, op.22
- Faschingsschwank aus Wien, op.26

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
- Étüde f minor (No.10 from "Études d'éxécution transcendante")
- La Campanella
- Konzert-Etüde No.2, "Gnomenreigen", f sharp minor
- Etude "Feux follets"
- Transcriptions of Schubert-Liedern
- Bach-Liszt Fantasie and Fuge for Organ in g minor, S463/R120

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
- 8 Klavierstücke, op.76
- 2 Phapsodien, op.79
- 4 Balladen, op.10

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
- Pictures from an Exhibition

Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
- Theme with Variations
- Concert suite "Nutcracker" arranged by Pletnev

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
- Estampes
- Étude "Pour les arpèges composés"
- L'Isle joyeuse

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
- Fantasy b minor, op.28

Sergey Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
- Variations on a Theme by Corelli, op.42 (1931)
- Étude-tableau g minor, op.33 Nr.5
- Étude-tableau f sharp minor, op.39 Nr.3
- Préludes
- Scherzo from Mendelssohns "Ein Sommernachtstraum"

Maurice Ravel (1875-1977)
- Gaspard de la nuit
- Valses nobles et sentimentales

Béla Bartók (1881-1845)
- 8 Improvisationen über ungarische Bauernlieder, op.20

Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
- Métopes, op.29 (3 poèmes pour piano)

Levko Rewuzky (1889-1977)
- 3 Préludes, op.4

Sergey Prokofieff (1891-1953)
- Sonata No.3, a minor, op.28
- Sonata No.7, B flat Major, op.83

Boris Ljatoschinsky (1895-1968)
- 5 Préludes, op.44

Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
- Danzas Argentinas

György Ligeti (1923 - 2006_
- Étude "Fanfares", premier livre (1985)

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
- Erdenklavier
- Luftklavier
- Wasserklavier
- Feuerklavier

Einojuhani Rautavaara (*1928)
- Sonata No.2, op.64 "Die Feuerpredigt"

Myroslaw Skoryk (*1938)
- Burleske
- Partita No.5, "In modo retro"

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