Biography
The pianist, piano pedagogue, musicologist and theater musicians Nataliya Tkachenko was born in Ukraine and began her music studies at the School of Music with Prof. Yuriy Novikov, and was then tutored by Prof. Viktoria Goncharenko and Prof. Natalia Chesnokova at the Sergej Prokofjew State Conservatory in Donezk, Ukrania.
During her studies she gave numerous piano recitals. At the age of 17, she made her debut in the Ukraine with the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto in C minor op.18.
Nataliya Tkachenko continued her studies and graduated in Germany at the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg where she first studied piano with Prof. Silke-Thora Matthies, and then studied music education under Prof. Friedhelm Brusniak, Ph.D., and musicology under Prof. Ulrich Konrad at the Julius-Maximilians- University of Würzburg. She was also further tutored in piano by Prof. Burkard Schliessmann.
Nataliya Tkachenko graduated from the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg with a MA (Master of Arts). Her master's thesis was based upon "Chopins interpretations by Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Alfred Cortot as educational challenge".
Furthermore, she was significantly influenced and inspired personally by the artistic talent of Maria Sofianska (Academie of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart).
Nataliya played concerts in Italy (including the Museo Nazionale dell`etá neoclassica of Romagna in the "Palazzo Milzetti”), in the Ukraine (e.g. at the International Festival of Piano Arts "Music without limits"), in Poland, Luxembourg, Russia and in various cities in Germany.
She is co-founder and frequent guest of the International Festival of Piano Art "Music Without Limits" in Dnipro (Ukraine), which was founded in 2009.
The Japanese music corporation Roland requested that she make presentations at the annual Music Fair in Frankfurt.
Nataliya Tkachenko has been working as a professor in Instrumental Piano at the Julius-Maximilians-University in Würzburg since 2012.
In the Theater in Kempten she conceived and performed several musical fairy tales in the series "Classics for Children".
In the theater productions "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King", "The Little Witch", "1001 Nights", "Peter and the Wolf", "La Vie de Coco Chanel" and "Peer Gynt" she took over the musical direction (piano, choir, guitar, arr. for piano version) and played with the ensemble of the Kempten Theater in several guest performances in Stuttgart, Lindau, Ulm and Schwäbisch Gmünd.
For the "Hörbiografien" music series "at the Kempten Theater, she created the musical-literary soirées "Chopin und seine Frauen" and "Bevor sie mich verurteilen, sollen sie mich wenigstens einmal anhören" during the 2022/23 season.
Your new CD "Fazıl Say: Troy Sonata · 3 Ballads · Black Earth" was released on NEOS MUSIC in September 2023.
In 2024 she discovered the Peer Gynt incidental music (Schauspielmusik ) with a total of 26 numbers, which had not been performed in the theaters in its original version for around 100 years. For the performance at the Kempten Theater, she adapted the orchestral incidental music into a piano version and coupled it with Ibsen's drama - as in the premiere in 1876. The rediscovery was recorded in Wikipedia:(Schauspielmusik) Peer Gynt/ Performances.
For the 23rd Kempten Dance Autumn Festival (Kemptner Tanzherbst Festival), she developed a dance project "Troy" together with Richard Klug and artlempten e.V., which celebrated a critically acclaimed premiere in October 2023. In winter 2024, "Troy" went on South Germany tour with live music by Fazıl Say op. 78.