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Alla Nikitskaya
is a concert pianist and piano teacher from Plaistow,
New Hampshire, USA.
She was born in Zhukovskiy (Moscow
county), Russia,
in a family of professional musicians and started playing piano at the age of
5. Her first piano teacher was her mother, Lada Nikitskaya. She is a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky
Conservatory Music College and Moscow Gnesin
Institute. Alla represents Heinrich Neuhaus piano school. Her teachers were Pavel Messner, Natalia Suslova, Lada Nikitskaya, who were students of great Russian
pianists such as Emil Gilels, Lev Oborin,
Vera Gornostaeva, respectively (who are in turn Heinrich Neuhaus’s students).
Alla developed her career in Russia
as a solo and duet pianist. She played recitals as a duet and solo player,
performing at well-known Russian auditoriums, such as –Moscow Piller Hall of House of Unions, Gnesin
Great Concert Hall, Moscow Scriabin Museum,
Moscow Art Galleries
and other concert halls in Russian cities. As a
harpsichord player she performed with the Orchestra at Handel Festival held
in the Moscow Tchaikovsky Philharmonic Hall. This performance was shown on
Russian TV. At the Moscow
Scriabin Festival she recieved a Special Award for a piano duet with her sister,
Maria Nikitskaya, which was broadcasted on the
radio.
Later, she moved to the US
in 1999, and became a US
citizen in 2006. Soon after arriving to the country she started playing piano
recitals in New England. She
had solo performances at MIT Lincoln Laboratory Concert Auditorium (MA), Milford
Town Hall(NH), Annicchiarico Theatre (NH),
Amazing Things Art Center (MA), Main Sound Stage (ME), and many other
wonderful concert venues of New England. In classical music, romantic
music is her favorite, including Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff,
Scriabin, Debussy, etc. She also plays new
age/contemporary/jazz music, including her original compositions and
arrangements.
In addition, Alla teaches piano and music theory in-person and online, and some of
her students compose and improvise under her instruction. She arranges student
recitals regularly and her students play a varied repertoire, original
compositions and improvisations on stage.
Alla Nikitskaya
recorded two CDs and many video recordings on Youtube. In her first CD,
“Romantic Interpretations” (2005), she plays a set of
classical pieces, and in her second CD “East Meets West” (2008)
she plays both classical and popular music.
In 2009, Fanfare
magazine published an article-interview titled “Romantic Interpretations. Alla Nikitskaya in America”
in the March/April issue, which also consists of positive reviews about Alla’s CDs.
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