About
Multi-keyboardist Mariia (Masha) Kurtynina is celebrated for her deeply emotional artistry, sincere honesty and sensitive stage presence.
She performs on clavichord, harpsichord, fortepiano, and modern piano. She has gained extensive experience as a historically informed musician in Russia and Germany and was born in Znamensk (Astrahkan region) in 1998.
Her skills and musical spontaneity were recently demonstrated in her recitals at the Beethoven Museum in Bonn as a house pianist, at the Fabulous Fringe program of the Utrecht Early Music Festival, at the Workshop of Robert Brown in Austria, and at Schlosskonzerte Bad Krozingen in Germany.
The diversity of her repertoire and performance styles can be seen throughout recent performances – from a recital with Anastasia Kobekina at Alte Oper Frankfurt or Trio Egmont at the Klassik in Spandau Festival in Berlin, to solo performances on Hammerklavier with a Chopin program at a Saturday Chopin Recital in Żelazowa Wola in Poland, or with a Brahms program on Brahms’ Tafelklavier at the Brahms House in Hamburg.
Mariia was a semi-finalist in the International Chopin Competition for Historical Instruments (Warsaw, 2023) and in the semi-finals of the MA Competition in Bruges (August 2024).
She is going to take part in the Concerto 21 Academy in 2025. Her interests are not only in baroque, classical and romantic improvisations, but also in jazz. In her free time Mariia likes to read books, listen to podcasts about psychology, watch stand up comedy on YouTube, movies of Miyazaki and David Lynch, and exercise. She is a fan of cats as well.
