Angélus received the famous pianist Natasha Paremski during the 12th International Classical Music Festival.

• CHOPIN: Ballad no. 1 and Lullaby

• BRAHMS: Ballad no. 1

• BRAHMS - HAENDEL: Variations Op. 24

• RACHMANINOV: Sonata no. 2

Natasha Paremski was born in Moscow and settled in the US with her family in 1995, when she was 8. She studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, then moved to New York, where she continued studying at the prestigious Mannes School of Music, which she graduated from aged 20.  

She then went on to win several prizes awarded to outstanding young talents, including the Prix Montblanc in 2007 and the very exclusive Gilmore Young Artist Award in 2006, when she was just 19. In 2000, she had won the Young Talent award at the Carnegie Hall International Piano Festival. In September 2010, the Classical Recording Foundation awarded her the Best Young Artist of the Year Prize.

At the age of 25, Natasha was invited by many major orchestras in the US, Europe and Asia, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Colorado Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra and the Osawa National Arts Centre Orchestra.

She went on tour in Europe with the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna’s Tonkünstler Orchester, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony, Berlin’s Konzerthaus Orchester, as well as with Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica, with whom she recorded Chopin’s two concertos.

She works regularly with a number of conductors, including Peter Oundjian, James Gaffigan, Jeffrey Kahane and Dimitry Yablonsky. Natasha Paremski has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Tokyo’s Musashino Theatre, Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, the Verbier Festivals, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schloss Elmau and Lockenhaus and Chicago’s Ravinia Festival.

Natasha likes working with contemporary composers and her ever-growing repertoire reflects her curiosity and her artistic maturity, despite her young age. In 2011, she performed Gabriel Kahane’s sonata, which is dedicated to her and recorded it in her first album, issued in 2012 alongside Brahms and Prokofiev. In 2008, she also performed the first world premiere of John Corigliano’s concerto with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. She also works on a regular basis with another well-known name in American contemporary music, Fred Hersch. Natasha also extends her pianist’s career beyond traditional classical concerts: she was chosen by the BBC for a documentary on Tchaikovsky, filmed in Saint Petersburg, to play extracts of his first concerto, as well as other pieces. In 2007, she took part with Simon Keenlyside, Maxim Vengerov and Sting in the filming of “Twin Spirits” about the music and correspondence of Robert and Clara Schumann. The film led to a show, which toured in the US and UK. It was directed by John Caird, who also directed Les Misérables. 

In 2008, she had a substantial collaboration with the choreographer and dancer Benjamin Millepied in the show “Danses Concertantes” at New York’s Joyce Theater.

Natasha performed in her first professional concert at the age of 9 with the El Camino Youth Symphony in California. At 15, she played for the first time with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, then made two recordings with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and Dimitri Yablonsky, including Rubinstein’s 4th concerto and Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.