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Biography
Maria Eshpai was born 19th of January of 1986 in art family in Moscow
(Russia).
She started to have piano lessons when she was 5 and at the same year
she began to study in Special Central Music School in Moscow with
professor A.Bakulov.
In 2003 after she finished her 9th year Maria made a decision to move
to Music College and to study with merited artist/professor I.Ossipova.
2005 Maria entered Moscow State Tchaikovsky conservatory and in
2010 she finished it with the Best marks.
These years she played a lot of concerts and took part at many festivals
master classes and competitions all around the world: England,
Denmark, Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Germany, Finland, USA, China,
Brazil, Russia (Richter Festival in Tarusa, “Homecomming” in Moscow,
International “I.Kandinskaya and “Persona” presents” Festival in
Togliatti). In 2006 Maria won International Piano Festival NLPS in
London and had a solo concert at St Martin in the Fields.
In 2011 she had her solo debut at the Moscow Philharmonia, Chamber
hall. Concert had a great success and since that time she plays there
every year.
She also played several times with biggest Russian symphony
orchestras such as BSO (Tchaikovsky Big Symphony Orchestra) under
V.Fedoseev, GSO ( Svetlanov Big Symphony Orchestra) under
M.Gorenshtein and A.Sladkovsky, St.Petersburg Filarmonic Orchestra
under V.Zeeva.
Since first time she came to Denmark (2008) she started to have some
lessons with outstanding Danish musician, great teacher Anne Øland.
Maria became a regular participant in Opus festival in Aarhus (20082015).
In 2011 Maria Eshpai went to Denmark to make her Solo program
education at Det Jysk Musikkonservatorium in Aarhus (with professor
Anne Øland) and finished it in November 2013 by playing Solo debut
concert at the Music House in Aarhus and pre-debut tour around
Denmark.
During the years of studding in Denmark, Maria has been organizing
several concerts and events dedicated to the music of Carl Nielsen and
Andrei Eshpai (her grand father and one of the biggest Russian
composer), participating in many different festivals, playing solo and
chamber music recitals all over the country, soloist with Randers
chamber orchestra, accompanying at the competitions (fxl. Danish
string competition), courses, exams, master classes and regular
concerts at Det Jysk Musikkonservatorium (Aarhus/Aalborg), Det
Fynske Musikkonservatorium (Odense/Esbjerg).
In August 2012 she received Harby Fond stipendium and has been
honored to play Mozart concerto at the big hall of Copenhagen
Conservatorium.
In 2014 she had her debut as a soloist with Odense Symphony
Orchestra with the piece by her grand father Andrei Eshpai.
In 2015 she made the project together with “Ganhøj Dans” company
where she performed the solo piano version of the hall ballet “The Rite
of Spring” by I.Stravinsky. In 2016 she continued successful cooperation
with Granhoj Dans making modern version of Stravinsky’s “Petrushka”.