![]() Lisitsa signed a three-year contract with French record label Naïve in 2021. Her YouTube channel had over 650,000 followers in early 2022. By mid-2020, her videos reached 200 million views. īy mid-2012, she had logged nearly 50 million views of her YouTube videos. In the spring of 2012, before her Royal Albert Hall debut, Lisitsa signed with Decca Records, which later released those recordings. In 2010, Lisitsa told an interviewer, she and her husband put their life savings into recording a CD of Rachmaninoff concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra, in hopes of furthering her career. Her set of Chopin etudes reached the number-one slot on Amazon's list of classical video recordings, and became the most-viewed online collection of Chopin etudes on YouTube. Lisitsa posted her first YouTube video in 2007. Their New York debut was at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in 1995. That same year, they moved to the United States to further their careers as concert pianists. In 1991, they won the first prize in The Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition in Miami, Florida. When Lisitsa met Kuznetsoff, she began to take music more seriously. Lisitsa attended the Lysenko music school and, later, the Kyiv Conservatory, where she and her future husband, Alexei Kuznetsoff, studied under Dr. She is of Russian and Polish descent on her mother's side, while her father is of Ukrainian heritage. She started playing the piano at the age of three, performing her first solo recital at the age of four. Her mother, also named Valentina, is a seamstress and her father, Evgeny, was an engineer. 2, amassed more than 40 million views.Lisitsa was born in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine). ![]() In mid-2019, a video of her performance of the finale of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. In 2019, Lisitsa recorded the complete piano music of Tchaikovsky for Decca. ![]() Lisitsa has appeared at top venues including Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall, but she faced controversy in 2015 as her appearance with the Toronto Symphony was cancelled due to provocative tweets supporting the Russian-backed insurgency in Ukraine (Lisitsa herself is of Russian and Polish ethnic background). Most of her recordings have focused on Romantic and Russian repertory, but she also issued a recital of music by Philip Glass in 2015. Decca issued her Rachmaninov recordings singly, and she has continued to record for Decca at least yearly. By 2012, with Lisitsa's online views mounting toward the 50 million mark, she was booked at London's Royal Albert Hall and signed to the Decca label. This required the investment of their entire life savings, but it paid off. They self-financed a recording of the four Rachmaninov piano concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra. ![]() In 2010, Lisitsa and Kuznetsoff executed the next step in their plan. She issued a solo recital of works by Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt, and Sigismond Thalberg on Naxos in 2010, and accompanied Hahn on an Ives sonata recording for Deutsche Grammophon the following year. and Europe as an accompanist to violinist Hilary Hahn. Her videos did both: in the late 2000s decade she toured the U.S. Lisitsa hoped that internet stardom would propel her to success in conventional channels of touring and major-label recordings. She posted a video on the internet in 2007 and found immediate success in that medium, topping charts in early metrics. However, Lisitsa's career stalled, and she became interested in the possibilities of new media for promoting classical music. They had some success in the U.S., appearing at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York in 1995 and making recordings, both as a duo and by Lisitsa as a soloist, on the Audiofon label in the late 1990s. They won the Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition in Miami in 1991 and moved to the U.S., settling in North Carolina. There she met pianist Alexei Kuznetsoff, and the pair began performing as duo pianists. Lisitsa attended the Lysenko School of Music in Kiev and then enrolled at the Kiev Conservatory, studying with Ludmilla Tsvierko. She took up the piano at three and was giving concerts within a year, but for a time she hoped to become a professional chess player. Lisitsa was born in Kiev, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, on March 25, 1973. Her strategy was successful: in the 2010s decade she was signed to the major label Decca and has been a fixture in its stable of artists. Pianist Valentina Lisitsa was among the first classical musicians to use an internet video service as a significant method of promoting her career.
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