Nataliya Medvedovskaya
New York
Nataliya Medvedovskaya is an award-winning composer, concert pianist and a songwriter who writes in a wide range of many different genres. Her compositions are hailed as "significant, amazing, dramatic" (LA TIMES). A graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Russia, with a double major in composition and piano performance, she moved to New York City in 2003.
She won FIRST PRIZE at the 1995 International Composers’ Competition of the Gartow Foundation (St. Petersburg, Russia); Second Prize as a composer at the International Competition "Golden Channukia"(Berlin, 2005); "Best Easy Listening Song" Award, "Best Classical Composition", "Best Classical Artist", and "Best Instrumental Artist" from Indie Music Channel in Hollywood, 2015; Honor Award at the 2006 Great American Song Contest; Honorable Mention in the 14th BILLBOARD Song Contest; Honorable Mention in the 11th Unisong International Song Contest; Honorable Mention in the 2007 "Song of the Year" International Song Contest, Directors Award at the 2012 Paramount Group Nashville International Song & Lyric Writing Competition, and an ASCAP Plus Award. She was also a finalist at the "American Songwriter Magazine"s Lyric Writing Contest.
Nataliya has many achievements under her belt as a classical contemporary composer. Her String Quartets was broadcast by WQXR internationally, performed at Chamber Music America Conference (NY, 2007), Albuquerque Music Festival (NM, 2007), Mohawk Trial Concerts(2006), Summer Mountain Festival (2005), Edinburgh Festival of Art, Music, and Animation (Scotland, 1997), in Yale University, Merkin Hall, and was honorably acclaimed in LA Times, Washington Post, Charleston Daily Mail, and Kalamazoo Gazette.
Her cinematic "First Snow" for oboe, bassoon, violin and piano was performed at the "Wall to Wall Behind the Wall" International Festival (Symphony Space, NY, 2010), at An Die Music Series (MD, 2009), and was broadcast by "Classical Music Discovery" radiostation (2015).
She recently had a World Premiere of her 2-hour length orchestral BALLET for children based on the "Adventures of Nils" fairytale (Maryland, 2014).
In 2004 she composed and recorded three soundtracks for the American Film "I Will Avenge You, Iago!". She was recently chosen to be a part of the Society of Composers and Lyricists’s New York Film Program.
As a concert pianist of high regard, Natasha won Honorable Award at the "Young Virtuosi" International Piano Competition (Czech Republic, 1989). Her CD of Rachmaninoff songs for mezzo-soprano and piano were issued by Mapleshade Records in 2006. She has been playing both her own music and music of other contemporary composers and composers from different eras in Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, Bargemusic, Steinway Hall, Bechstein Pianos, Austrian Cultural Forum, Liederkranz Concert Hall, Di Menna Center for classical music, The National Opera Center, and other venues. Her performances were favorably reviewed at www.nyconcertreview.com and in New York Stringer Magazine.
Nataliya recently got into the top 20 on the "Women of Substance" Radio Podcast. Her compositions were featured at DHarmic evolution Podcast, imradio.com, on the Eartaster Sampler 4, and the Noizepunk & Krooner Shows at kalvos.org.
Nataliya recently played a show of her songs in the world-famous WHISKY A GO-GO in Hollywood, where she was invited to be an opening act for Tracii Guns from Guns N Roses and LA Guns.
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