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Professor EVGENIA TERENTIEVA (singer, pianist, composer, educator)
Evgenia Terentieva, born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), now lives and teaches in London. She graduated with distinction both from St. Petersburg Conservatoire and Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where she won the prestigious Concert Recital Diploma (Premier Prix) and received HonLGSM Diploma. In 1998 she won a "Queen's Award" from the British Council to continue her post-graduate studies in the UK. She studied vocal with Richard Burgess-Ellis and Kyra Vayne; piano with Elena Shishko, John Lill and James Gibb; composition with Vladislav Uspensky.
Evgenia has been a prize winner of several international competitions and festivals in Sweden, Spain, France, Great Britain and Bulgaria where she was awarded first Prize in both Performance and Composition at the international festival-contest Dobrich Albena "The Coast of Hope". She is the laureate of the Gardt’s Award for the best composition. Her recordings have been broadcast on the BBC World Service, RTV, NTV (major Russian national TV channels broadcast all over Russia and Europe), Russian Hour Digital Channel, Wroclaw Radio, Welikopolsky TV (Poland) and Sofia TV (Bulgaria).
Mrs Terentieva has established herself on the concert platforms of her native Russia as well as in the Netherlands, France, Spain, Poland, Bulgaria, South Africa and the UK. Her ability to communicate through her music has been evident throughout performances. She has given highly acclaimed recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, St. Martins-in-the-Field, St. James's Piccadilly, Middle Temple Hall, St. Giles Cripplegate, European Academy for the Arts in London and the Barbican, as well as in the City of London, Westminster and Tudley Hall Festivals.
Evgenia’s repertoire is both substantial and wide-ranging. Being a composer herself, she possesses a strong and intuitive sense of musical architecture. Her schedule for the current season includes a series of concerts in Europe and CD recordings.
Evgenia herself has often appeared in radio and television interviews and features, and she contributes regularly to various Russian and international newspapers and periodicals. Evgenia is the author of numerous articles dedicated to children’s music education and Russian music culture.
In 2000 Evgenia has established an International Concert Agency, Musica Nova Productions to promote young promising artists from Eastern Europe and Great Britain and new contemporary music of Russian composers. In 2009 Musica Nova Productions Ltd became a co-producer of the International Festival of Talent and Beauty "Stars and Little Stars of the Universe" held in London.
Evgenia Terentieva adjudicates at some international competitions and music festivals in Bulgaria ("Starry Rainbow"), Moscow ("Starry Valley") and London ("Russian Song"). She is a founder and a President of the "Musica Nova" Russian-British Music Academy in London www.musicanova.org.uk/school, the only bi-lingual establishment in the UK to offer complete professional music education for children and adults up to advanced professional level.
Students who are studying at the Academy have come from all parts of the world: Russia, Ukraine, America, Spain, France, Belgium, China, Germany, Poland, Israel, Malasya and Nigeria. For the past eight years Musica Nova Academy offered quality professional music education to hundreds of students, who have passed successfully with distinction Grade exams (from preparation level to the 8th Grade in piano, vocal and strings). Some students became laureates of national and international competitions in Great Britain (2008), Bulgaria (2009) and Russia (2007, 2009). Most talented students were given an opportunity to work with leading recording labels, such as BMG and Sony. Many students continue their post-graduate education in leading conservatoires in Great Britain and Europe.
