"For Valentina Lisitsa, not a note of regret after TSO snub". ^ "Calendar of Events and Exhibitions"."Ukraine-born pianist's Toronto concert cancelled over pro-Russia remarks".
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"Valentina Lisitsa: Playing the odds – by way of Rachmaninoff". ^ Everett-Green, Robert (7 December 2012).Her album Valentina Lisitsa Live at the Royal Albert Hall (based on her debut performance at that venue 19 June 2012) was released 2 July 2012. Her recording of the four sonatas for violin and piano by composer Charles Ives, made with Hilary Hahn, was released in October 2011 on Deutsche Grammophon label. Lisitsa has recorded for the Audiofon, CiscoMusic, and VAI labels. On Lisitsa played a concert in Mariupol in commemoration of its "liberation" by Russia. Lisitsa performed in front of the Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow on, to commemorate victims of the 2014 Trade Unions House fire. In 2022, Benjamin Ivry wrote in International Piano Magazine that Lisitsa had "parrot Putin’s propagandistic talking points about Ukraine". And second, banning a musician for expressing "'opinions that some believe to be offensive' shows an utter failure to grasp the concept of free speech." The Ukrainian Weekly has described her postings as "hate speech." In response, Lisitsa commented that "satire and hyperbole the best literary tools to combat the lies". The Toronto Star criticised the orchestra's decision in an editorial, writing that, "Lisitsa was not invited to Toronto to discuss her provocative political views. The CEO of Toronto Symphony later provided a seven-page compilation of her tweets that prompted the decision and said that it was "not a free speech issue, but rather an issue of someone practicing very intolerant and offensive expression through Twitter". Lisitsa said that the orchestra threatened her if she spoke about the cancellation. In April 2015, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra cancelled concerts with Lisitsa, citing her "provocative" online remarks on her Twitter account the orchestra initially did not specify which tweets or other commentary it believed crossed a line. Lisitsa has expressed her opposition to what she considered Western interference within Ukraine. She has also collaborated with violinist Hilary Hahn in recital engagements. She has posted online recitals and practicing streams. Lisitsa has performed in Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, Benaroya Hall, Musikverein, Wigmore Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. Lisitsa signed a three-year contract with French record label Naïve in 2021. Her YouTube channel had over 650,000 followers in early 2022. By mid-2020, her videos reached 200 million views. īy mid-2012, she had logged nearly 50 million views of her YouTube videos. In the spring of 2012, before her Royal Albert Hall debut, Lisitsa signed with Decca Records, which later released those recordings. In 2010, Lisitsa told an interviewer, she and her husband put their life savings into recording a CD of Rachmaninoff concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra, in hopes of furthering her career. Her set of Chopin etudes reached the number-one slot on Amazon's list of classical video recordings, and became the most-viewed online collection of Chopin etudes on YouTube. Lisitsa posted her first YouTube video in 2007. Their New York debut was at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in 1995. That same year, they moved to the United States to further their careers as concert pianists. In 1991, they won the first prize in The Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition in Miami, Florida. When Lisitsa met Kuznetsoff, she began to take music more seriously. Lisitsa attended the Lysenko music school and, later, the Kyiv Conservatory, where she and her future husband, Alexei Kuznetsoff, studied under Dr. She is of Russian and Polish descent on her mother's side, while her father is of Ukrainian heritage. She started playing the piano at the age of three, performing her first solo recital at the age of four. Her mother, also named Valentina, is a seamstress and her father, Evgeny, was an engineer. Lisitsa was born in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine).
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