For Porto Pianofest’s 6th edition, we introduce the Artist Residency Series, aimed at young pianists who come to Porto to prepare for future projects— recitals, competitions, recordings— to work with artist faculty and present their music to PPF’s audience.

These are young virtuosi with brilliant careers ahead of them. Come meet and support the Artist Residencies participants by attending the live streaming of their performances.

Aliya Turetayeva was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan and has appeared on several occasions as a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra and State Symphony Orchestra at the State Philharmonic Hall and at the Kazakh Concert Hall in Almaty. After graduating from the specialized music school, Aliya was accepted into the Dresden University of Music at the age of 16.

Two years later, she moved to Cologne and continued her studies at the Hochschule fuer Musik und Tanz Köln as a student of Professor Pavel Gililov.

Aliya was a prizewinner at the Feurich International Competition in Vienna, at the Concert Artists International in New York (2nd Prize and Outstanding Performance Award), 3rd prizewinner at the Verao Classico Festival in Lisbon, Portugal and finalist at the Osaka

International Music Competition in Japan. She was also awarded Diploma at the V. Krainev International Piano Competition for Young Pianists, the Brueser Berger Musikpreis in Bonn,

Germany, 3rd Prize at Labia & Callegaro Prize in Italy and an Honorable Mention Award at Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition in New York, USA. As a recipient of the

Steinway Hall Prize at the KIPC 2019 in Kent, the UK, Aliya made her debut at the Steinway Hall in London in 2020. Most recently she was invited to perform at the International Holland

Piano Series at the Muziekcentrum in Enschede for maestro Stephen Kovacevich and was selected to perform at Isaac Stern Auditorium Perelman Stage at the Carnegie Hall in New

York in 2021. As a prizewinner of the International Music Competition of the Nordic Strings Academy in Denmark, Aliya will go on China Tour during the season 2020/2021. In 2020 she

was additionally supported by Verein Brueser Berger Preis in Bonn.

Aliya's debut album, that includes works by Robert Schumann, was released in 2020 by the distinguished KNS Classical Label. The CD received wonderful criticism from many music magazines and reviewers worldwide - Fanfare Magazine (USA), ConcertoNet (USA),

Misicalifeiten (The Netherlands), Info-Netz-Musik (Germany), New York Concert Review (USA), Schumann-Journal (Bonn, Germany), The WholeNote Magazine Toronto (Ontario,

Canada) and Limelight Magazine, Australia's essential guide to music, arts and culture.

PROGRAM:

Ludwig van Beethoven,

Piano sonata Op. 53 "Waldstein" in C major

Bach-Busoni,

Chaconne BWV 1004, from Partita for violin solo No. 2 in D minor

Maurice Ravel,

"Scarbo" from "Gaspard de la nuit"