Vlada Vassilieva

A Mexican pianist of Russian origin, Vlada Vassilieva is the winner of the 2010 Nadia Reisenberg Piano Award in New York, Fulbright García-Robles grantee (2008), prizewinner at numerous piano competitions in Mexico, United States of America, Canada and Ukraine; BM´06 at the Fine Arts Institute of the University of Colima as a student of Dr. Anatoly Zatin, and a MM´10 at Mannes College for Music in New York City with Prof. Pavlina Dokovska. She was a recipient of the 2007 fellowship for performers by the National Foundation for Culture and Arts in Mexico, and was Artist in Residence at the International House of New York in 2008-2009. Since 2006, Ms. Vassilieva has served on faculty at the Music Department of the University of Colima in Mexico. Her students have achieved top prizes at national and international piano competitions.

Ms. Vassilieva has performed in Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and the New York Historical Society; in Russia at the St. Petersburg Musical Spring, Silver Lyre, Oskolkov & Friends festivals, and the Sviatoslav Richter’s Museum in Moscow. She has performed as soloist with orchestras in Mexico, United States, Italy, Czech Republic, Russia and Ukraine, collaborating with conductors Lin Daye, Alexander Treger and Scoot Yoo, but most importantly with Anatoly Zatin, with whom she performed the Mexican premiere of Scriabin’s Prometheus, Poem of Fire with the Jalisco Philharmonic. She also performed at the First International Festival of the Arts in Bishkek with the Kyrgyzstan National Philharmonic in 2012.

In 2003, Anatoly Zatin and Vlada Vassilieva founded Duo Petrof. They have developed their own unique concept of the piano duo as stage genre. Besides inspiring their exceptional quality and sophisticated style to the classical repertoire, they create and perform their own arrangements for piano four-hands and two pianos, having been distinguished with many awards in the world of classical music.

In 2015-2018, she was guest professor at the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico, working with a select group of the most promising young pianists in the country. In 2018, Vlada Vassilieva, Anatoly Zatin and Petrof Pianos established the Petrof International Summer Festival, better known as Petrof Fest: an annual two-week-long session of master classes, concerts, excursions, and an international competition in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. Since May 2020, Vlada Vassilieva and Anatoly Zatin serve as presidents of the WPTA Piano Duo Association.

Ms. Vassilieva has offered master classes at the Semper Music Festival and the Cremona International Music Academy in Italy, the International Piano Festival of the Conservatory of Shanghai, and at many music colleges and universities in different countries and continents. Critics and audiences alike appreciate her sophisticated sound palette, mature performances, impetuous character, and stage presence.