“Ekaterina Bonyushkina is a very gifted, sensitive, intelligent musician with amazing pianistical skills. It is very interesting that at her very young age she studies chamber music and symphonic music scores with unusual devotion.”
Martha Argerich, October 2018.

“Ekaterina has a fantastic school of sound and a very natural flexibility of timing, not at all juvenile, a fine measure of pedal and taste.”
Alexei Lubimov, July 2020.

“Ekaterina Bonyushkina possesses both extraordinary musicality and incredible technical skills. Her conceptions of musical pieces are always absolutely unique, profound, and convincing, be ti a Baroque composition, or a Modern piece. Ekaterina’s ability to conceive and learn new pieces and whole programs within weeks is remarkable as
well.”
Boris Berezovsky, March 2021.
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Born in 2003 in Moscow, Ekaterina Bonyushkina started playing the piano at the age of 6. In September 2014 she enrolled at the Gnessin Special School (College) of Music (class of Evgeny Talisman, then Boris Berezovsky in 2019 – 2022). She is currently completing the Bachelor Programme at the Haute école de musique de Genève in the class of professor Nelson Görner.

In 2014, she gave her first recital in Zürich and appeared with an orchestra in the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, and in 2015 participated in the “Herbst in der Helferei” festival in Zürich.

In summer 2018, Ekaterina has recorded two CDs: one of J.S. Bach compositions, and the other of works by F. Schubert, R. Schumann and F. Chopin.
In July-August 2019, Ekaterina was chosen to take part in Verbier Festival’s Academy for emerging soloists, where she attended solo piano and chamber music masterclasses of J.-E. Bavouzet, K. Hellwig, J. Achucarro, S. Babayan, P. Frank, G. Takács-Nagy, and F. Rados.

Ekaterina has been a prize-winner of a number of international competitions, including:
• “Crescendo.Genève” in Switzerland (2014, 1st Prize);
• “Vietri sul Mare – Costa Amalfitana” in Italy (2016, 1st Prize);
• “Windsor International Piano Competition” in the U.K. (2017, 1st Prize);
• Anna Artobolevskaya Competition in Moscow (2017, 2nd prize);
• “Jeune Chopin” Competition in Switzerland (2018, 2nd Grand-Prix);
• “Montecatini International Online Piano Competition” (2021, 3rd Prize);
• Tiziano Rossetti Online Competition (2021, 1st Prize);
• Grand Piano Competition in Moscow (2021, Laureate title).
“Stefano Marizza” Competition (2022, 3rd Prize)

Ekaterina has participated in the masterclasses of Prof. Hamish Milne, Rena Shereshevskaya, Janina Fialkowska, Zlata Chochieva, Philippe Cassard, as well as in a number of international festivals: Yuri Bashmet’s festival “Elba, Isola Musicale d’Europa” (2017), where she also received the “Prize of the year-2019”, Boris Berezovsky’s Festival in Tatarstan, Elabuga (2021), “Jeune Chopin” Festival in France (2021), International A. Scriabin Festival in Moscow, Russia (2022), “Aisa and friends” Festival in Serbia (2022).

Ekaterina has played with various orchestras: “Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra”, Ulyanovsk Symphony Orchestra, Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra, Svetlanov State Symphony Orchestra.
She is especially fond of Schubert, Beethoven, Rachmaninov and Scriabin.

In her free time she likes playing chess and table tennis.