Saturday, July 17, 2021

Kaleriya Orlova | 3rd Prize | Piano | 8th Edition | ENKOR Int'l Music Competition


Kaleriya Orlova was born in Moscow, Russia in 1999. She moved to the US in 2002 and started to take piano lessons from her first piano teacher Ms. Carole Kriewaldt in 2008. Her next teacher was Dr. Scott Beard (2013-2017), and currently she takes lessons from Prof. Nikita Fitenko.

Over the years, Kaleriya Orlova participated and placed in numerous piano competitions, mentioning notably: American Protégé Piano Competition (3rd place, final recital at Carnegie Hall, 2013), Jazz and Classical Music Piano Festival and Competition (1st place, 2017) and Washington International Piano Festival (final recital at Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, 2018).

Aside of musical activities, she is taking programming courses and planning to apply to a university to get a Computer science degree.

Toccata in e minor by Bach, 7:19 

Moment Musicaux #4 by Rachmaninoff, 3:14 

Chaconne by Gubaidulina, 8:15