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 Evgenia Startseva, born in Kazakhstan, is a pianist with an international concert career both as a soloist and as a chamber music player. She is regarded as a musician with an accomplished technique and a wide-ranging command of the tonal resources of the piano, giving vivid interpretations true to the composer’s style.
She studied in Moscow with Irina Savina, and then graduated from The Russian Gnesins’ Academy of Music, where her professors were Theodore Gutman and Ekaterina Derzhavina. During this time she regularly gave concerts in Russia and Kazakhstan, also taking part in the 1993 Igumnov Piano Festival in Lipetsk. As a postgraduate, she studied first at the Moscow State Conservatoire with Professor Mikhail Nikeshichev, then at the Musikhochschule in Saarbrucken with Professor Robert Leonardy. She has also received lessons from Vassily Lobanov in Cologne and Roger Vignoles in London.
 Evgenia Startseva’s busy concert schedule has subsequently taken her across the globe to the former USSR,Germany, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Mexico, South Africa, the United States and the UK, where she now lives. She has also featured in numerous broadcasts for ITV (UK), Südwestrundfunk (Baden-Baden), ORF2 (Vienna), Westdeurscher Rundfunk (Cologne), RTE (Ireland), Saarländischer Rundfunk and Eastern Kazakhstan Television.
In the year 2000, she made a recording with violinist Nadezhda Korshakova of works by Mozart, Prokofiev and Schedrin, released by DMK Classics.
More recently Evgenia Startseva has been partnering the renowned violinist Maxim Vengerov. They appeared together at the televised Classical Brit Awards in London May 2003 and gave an extensive and highly acclaimed recital tour across Europe and the USA in programmes which included Brahms’ three violin sonatas. She was described by reviewers as outstanding, super-sensitive, remarkably powerful, having a magnetic empathy and sensitive to nuance and the music’s songlike qualities.
As a soloist she most recently appeared in a performance of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with the East Kazakhstan Akim Symphony Orchestra.
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