Famous pianist Valentina Lisitsa will hold master classes for the scholarship holders of the Music for Future Foundation on December 14 (Wednesday), from 6:30PM to 9:30PM. The master classes will take place in Tatyana Hayrapetyan Concert Hall, at Tchaikovsky Specialized Secondary Music School. On December 16 she will perform with the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra (Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Sergey Smbatyan) within the framework of the 9th Khachaturian International Festival.

Master classes are open to students of musical institutions. Those applicants who didn't pass the scholarship competition can also be present at master classes as passive listeners. Entrance to master classes is allowed only in masks.

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Valentina Lisitsa is not only the first «YouTube star» of classical music; more importantly, she is the first classical artist to have converted her internet success into a global concert career in the principal venues of Europe, the USA, South America and Asia. Her YouTube channel now records over 600.000 subscribers and 147 million views with an average 75.000 views per day, whilst her Spotify account has over 800.000 listeners monthly. 

The 2020/2021 season sees Valentina perform recitals in Baden-Baden, Belgrade, Padova, Barcelona, Brussels, and return to Madison and Amelia Island Chamber Music Festivals in the USA. She also makes debuts with Armenian State Symphony Orchestra playing Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 under the direction of Sergey Smbatyan, Pasadena Symphony, Polish Baltic Philharmonic, Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic, Valencia Orchestra․

Born in Kiev, Ukraine, Valentina started learning the piano at age three and gave her first public recital a year later. She graduated from Kiev Conservatory subsequently moving to the United States and giving her debut performance in New York in 1995. Now Valentina shares her time between Moscow and Rome.