Hanna Shybayeva
Pianist
Having started her international career at the age of eleven, Hanna Shybayeva transformed from being a child prodigy to the mature and exciting musician she is today, whose playing is praised by press
and public alike for its deep musical interpretations, captivating energy, great sense of form and rich colour palette. Being devoted to music in every form, Hanna enjoys her solo peformances as much as being a partner in both chamber- and vocal music.
After making her debut with orchestra at the age of nine she won many prizes at competitions, beginning with the 1st prize at the International Casale Monferrato Piano Competition (Italy, 1990), followed two years later with two prizes at the International J.S.Bach Competition in Leipzig.
Hanna went on to win more prizes in Europe and the United States which led to a busy schedule participating in festivals, giving solo-recitals and performing concertos with orchestras in Europe, Russia and the United States, including the Philharmonic Orchestra of Belarus, the North-Osetia Philharmonic, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Belgrad, the Kammer-orchester Lünen, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Dortmund, the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra (US) and the Chamber Orchestra "Amici della Musica" (Belgium).
She was privileged to work with conductors such as Yuri Ziryuk, Gennadi Provatorov, Joachim Simon, Angel Shurev, Lygia O'Riordan, Moshe Atzmon, Marc Russell-Smith, Yaron Traub, Kevin Edusei, Hans Leenders and Neeme Järvi, and was awarded grants from Unesco/New Names (Moscow), the G.Soros Foundation, the Spivakov Foundation (Moscow), the Yuri Egorov Foundation (Amsterdam), Yamaha Music Europe and the Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation of The Netherlands.
In 1999, Hanna relocated to the Netherlands to continue her studies with Naum Grubert at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where she graduated in June 2005 as Master of Music with the highest distinction.
Her first CD (2000) was broadcast in its entirety on Dutch classical RADIO-4, and in 2001 she won the two top-prizes at the National Piano Competition in Amsterdam. Shortly afterwards, Philips-Universal released her second CD, which was highly regarded in the Dutch press, and she appeared as soloist with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
Since then, her numerous performances include appearances at the Prinsengracht Concerts & Festval (Amsterdam), the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Vredenburg Utrecht, the Vereniging Concert Hall in Nijmegen and many other venues, as well as concerts in Germany, Belgium, Ireland and the US (New York).
In 2008 she participated in a documentary film-production based on S.Prokofiev "The Unfinished Diaries", produced by Up Front Entertainment Inc. in Canada. Her third CD with Schubert Sonatas was released on the Brilliant Classics label in February 2009.
Hanna Shybayeva is of Dutch nationality and lives in The Hague (The Netherlands).
