Ekaterina Richter (piano)

Ekaterina Richter attended the Central School of Music affiliated with the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory studying under the guidance of her mother Elena Richter between 1989 and 1999. In 2005, she graduated cum laude from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she was taught by Elena Richter and Elisso Virssaladze. She went on to further her education at postgraduate studies, which she finished in 2008 in two disciplines simultaneously: piano with Elisso Virssaladze and chamber music with Alexander Rudin. From 2007 to 2011, she was also a student of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne with Pavel Gililov. She has been an assistant professor (since 2008) and a docent of piano (since 2019) at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

She has garnered laurels at competitions held in Bydgoszcz (1998), Bratislava (1998), Saint Petersburg (2004), San Bartolomeo al Mare (2004), Cologne (2007), Gorizia (2008), Pordenone (2008), Leipzig (2010), Barletta (2010) and Moscow (2019). She has appeared at various festivals in such places as Moscow, Kleve, Kerkrade and Chiopris-Viscone. Richter has performed at many different concert venues located in Russia, Germany, France, Austria, Poland, Finland, Switzerland, Italy, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Japan, Lithuania and the United States. She also acts as an organiser of concerts and other musical projects, such as the concert in memory of Krzysztof Penderecki held at the Niko Art Gallery in Moscow and the concert dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of the Visegrád Group at the Zaryadye Hall in Moscow.