Born in Moscow in 2003, Ekaterina Bonyushkina received her first piano lessons at the age of six. She has been
performing regularly as a soloist and in various chamber music formations since 2012.
In April 2014, at the age of 10, she won first prize at the 2nd International Youth Music Competition “CRESCENDO.GENEVE” in Geneva. A few weeks later, she played her first piano recital in Zürich. In the following years, she won prizes at multiple international competitions, notably, Jeune Chopin” competition in Valais, Geneva International Junior Piano Competition, Concours d’interprétation Musicale de Lausanne, the Grand Piano Competition in Moscow.
Ekaterina has performed with various orchestras: “Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra”, Ulyanovsk Symphony Orchestra, Ural Symphony Youth Orchestra, Svetlanov State Symphony Orchestra.
Her repertoire includes piano concertos by Tchaikovsky (No.1), Brahms (No.1,2), Beethoven (No.3,4,5), Rachmaninov (No.3), Saint-Saëns (No.2), Schumann, and others.
Ekaterina has been a guest in a number of international festivals: “Herbst in der Helferei”, where she performed as a soloist, with the festival orchestra, and in a duo with Gilad Karni (2015), Yuri Bashmet’s festival “Elba, Isola Musicale d’Europa” (2017), where she also received the “Prize of the year-2019”, Boris Berezovsky’s Festival in Tatarstan, Elabuga (2021), “Jeune Chopin” Festival in Cannes (2021), International A. Scriabin Festival in Moscow,(2022), “Aisa and friends” in Belgrade (2022), Puplinge Classique (2023) and “Primeurs musicales” in Geneva (2024).
In July 2024, Ekaterina was invited to take part in Verbier Festival’s Academy for emerging soloists, where she attended solo piano and chamber music masterclasses of J. Achucarro, K. Gerstein, N. Namoradze, A. Keller, and G. Takács-Nagy. She was there awarded the Tabor Foundation Award.
Apart from Verbier, at different times she has worked with Prof. Hamish Milne, Esther Yellin, Rena Shereshevskaya, Janina Fialkowska, Zlata Chochieva, Philippe Cassard.
Since 2014 Ekaterina has studied piano at the “Moscow Special Music School of Gnessin” with Evgeny Talisman and Boris Berezovsky. In September 2022, she enrolled at the Haute école de musique de Genève to complete the Bachelor piano course with Professor Nelson Goerner.
