Czech republic, 1999
Natalie Schwamová
At the age of 10, she made her debut as a soloist with Mozart’s Concerto in D minor KV
466 with the Buenos Aires Symphony Orchestra (Argentina). She has also performed
with the National University of Argentina Orchestra and the main Czech orchestras – the
Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic, the Janáček Philharmonic in Ostrava, the Pilsen
Philharmonic, the FOK Symphony Orchestra of Prague, the Prague Chamber
Philharmonic and the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic, in Denmark with the Aarhus
Symphony Orchestra and most recently with Extramadura Orchestra in Spain.
Performed in some of the main halls of the world – for example Rudolfinum in Prague,
National Auditorium in Madrid, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Hall of the
Warsaw Philharmonic and she has given solo piano and chamber music recitals in
Germany, Italy, Austria, Denmark, Hungary, Holland, Spain, and the United States,
among others.
She has been awarded in more than 20 international competitions. Among them the 2nd
prize in the Pilsen Smetana Competition, 1st prize at the Fryderyk Chopin Competition
in Marienbad. In 2015 she participated as one of the historically youngest contestants in
the Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Warsaw. In 2017 she became a laureate of the
international piano competition in Aarhus, Denmark. In 2023 she won 1st prize at the
International Music Competition in Alicante. In the same year she was awarded by Her
Majesty the Queen with the distinction of “Most Outstanding Student” at the Reina
Sofía School of Music in Madrid.
She began playing the piano at the age of six in Prague. She studied at the Prague
Academy of Music with Frantisek Maly. Continued with Dimitri Bashkirov at the
Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, since September 2021 with Milana
Chernyavska, as well as with Claudio Martinez Mehner, Márta Gulyàs and Denis
Lossev
She has received master classes from great masters such as András Schiff, Murray
Perahia, Dang Thai Son, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Nikolai Demidenko, Rena
Shereshevskaya, Michel Beroff, Nikolai Lugansky, and others.
