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Pianist and song interpreter Tatiana Kachko becomes "Senior Artist for Solo and Class Repetition"
Prof. Thomas Steinhöfel's Lied class reports a wonderful success: Tatiana Kachko has won a permanent position at the renowned University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. There she will be "Senior Artist for Solo and Class Repetition" at the Department of Singing.
Tatiana Kachko first completed the concert exam in piano with Prof. Grigory Gruzman at the Weimar University of Music before passing the concert exam in artistic song interpretation with Prof. Thomas Steinhöfel with distinction.
"This is a 100 per cent position and of course a bull's-eye as one could only wish for," her professor Thomas Steinhöfel is pleased to say. "At the same time, it is the culmination of a consistent education and a fitting portfolio."
According to Steinhöfel, it was ultimately the high standards of artistic depth and subtle sound quality acquired through the Lied, along with important skills such as experience in sight-reading, transposing and correpeting, that tipped the scales in favour of working with singers in such a prominent house.
Most recently, Tatiana Kachko worked as a lecturer for accompaniment at the Department of Voice | Music Theatre at the Weimar University of Music. "I am particularly pleased that her longstanding and passionate involvement in song interpretation - usually often ridiculed as a 'hobby' - is now leading to a very practical livelihood," explains Thomas Steinhöfel. "Tatjana has consistently followed this path and may serve as a role model that the 'song niche' is anything but insignificantly small."
Tatiana Kachko grew up in the south of Russia, where she began her musical path in her mother's piano class. At the age of ten, she had her first major performance with Bach's F minor Piano Concerto with the chamber orchestra "Kamerata" in Rostov-on-Don.
During her studies at the "Rimsky-Korsakov" Academy of Music in St. Petersburg, she discovered her passion for song and shortly afterwards became a prize-winner in the International Song Competition "Three Hundred Years of Classical Romance". In St. Petersburg, Tatiana Kachko completed her Master's degree in the class of Professor Nina Seregina.
Since 2014 she has been living in Weimar, where she first successfully completed the concert exam solo piano (2019) with Professor Grigory Gruzman and then the concert exam song interpretation (2021) with Professor Thomas Steinhöfel. Since April 2017, she has worked as a répétiteur at the Deparment of Voice at the Weimar University of Music.
During this time, she accompanied numerous master classes with highly renowned singing personalities such as Brigitte Fassbänder, Anne Sophie von Otter and Bo Skovus. In addition, she often performed as a guest repetiteur at the German National Theatre in Weimar, the Nordhausen Theatre and the Erfurt Theatre, among others.
She received important impulses as a solo and lied pianist in master classes given by Dmitry Bashkirov, Michael Dussek, Richard Stockes, Willam Grant Nabore, Natalia Trull, Luis Fernando Perez and others. Tatiana Kachko is also in demand internationally as a concert pianist and song interpreter at concerts and festivals.
She has performed at the Brucknerhaus Linz (Austria), the Bank Austria Saal Vienna (Austria), the KKL Lucerne (Switzerland), Molsdorf Castle near Erfurt, the Philharmonic Hall in Saint-Petersburg (Russia), the Porte Theatre (Hamamatsu, Japan) and other concert halls.
She has performed several times as a soloist with orchestras such as the Thuringian Philharmonic Orchestra, Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, Narva Philharmonic Orchestra (Estonia), Saint-Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra (Russia).
Tatiana has also achieved success in international piano and song competitions, winning, among others, the Young Musicians' Award of the "Lux Festspiele" (2016) as well as prizes at the International Piano Competition "Premio Silvio Bengalli" in Pianello Val Tidone (Italy, 2018), at the International Piano Competition Frechilla-Zuolaga in Valladolid (Spain, 2019) and in a song duo with Tatjana Timchenko-Hörr (soprano) at the International Song Duo Competition in Groningen (Netherlands, 2020).
[23 June 2023]