Ekaterina Tarnopolskaja

The pianist and accompanist Ekaterina Tarnopolskaja was born in Moscow. She received her training first at the Special Music School and then at the »Gnessin« Academy with Tatjana Selikmann and Wladimir Tropp, as well as at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Weimar with Rolf-Dieter Arens and Lazar Bermann, from which she graduated with an artistic and pedagogical diploma and a concert exam in 2004. She attended masterclasses with Helmut Deutsch, Hans Hotter, Peter Schreier, Robert Holl, Walter Berry and Brigitte Fassbaender, among others. During this time, she won the »DAAD« prize and was honoured with scholarships from the state of Thuringia and the Franz Schubert Institute.

Ekaterina Tarnopolskaya has performed as a soloist with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, the Marienbad Orchestra and the Lower Bavarian Philharmonic Orchestra, among others, and has worked as a chamber musician and lied accompanist as part of the »Europäische Wochen« festival, the »Europäisches Jugend-Musik-Festival« and the musical-literary concert series »… zwischen den Zeilen …«, of which she has been Artistic Director since 2009. She has also taught vocal pedagogues such as Josef Loibl, Rudolf Piernay, Ulrike Sonntag, Helge Dorsch, Brigitte Fassbaender, Maria Venuti, Karl-Heinz Jarius and Sebastian Vittucci and worked as a vocal coach for various international singers.

After engagements at the Landestheater Linz, the Niederbayerisches Landestheater Passau, the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, the Schenkenberg Opera in Switzerland, the »Kreschenskaja Nedelja« festival in Moscow, the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern and the Staatstheater Nürnberg, among others, she has been the director of studies at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatztheater under contract.

Ekaterina Tarnopolskaya has been teaching at the Stuttgart University of Music and the Stuttgart Opera School since 2009 and at the Mannheim University of Music since 2012. She gives masterclasses at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, among others, and is a visiting professor at the Izmir Conservatory (Turkey).