Natasha Paremski

[bella musica]

Has anybody heard of this pianist?  She is 19 years old and has already done concerts at Wigmore and Carnegie etc. and made a couple of concerto recordings when she was 15.  I hear she practices 6-8 hours every day... 

[pianiststrongbad]

I actually saw her play this last winter in CA.  She has wonderful technique, but personally I thought her interpretations were lacking a LOT.

[bella musica]

I saw her play last year too, at Meany Hall in Washington state.  I actually enjoyed it very much, but I'm relatively new to the world of classical music so I didn't have a lot to compare it with. 

She couldn't have been too terrible though, because she had to give FIVE encores.