West Buckland Festival 2010
Thursday 9th September, 7.30p.m. to 9.45p.m. Pianist Veronika Shoot currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music, London presents a special program of classical Piano Music.
Interval at 8.20 p.m. refreshments.
Tickets £12
Russian-born Nika Shoot moved to England aged 5, and gave her first recital aged 7 in Dartington International Summer School. She began her musical training with her mother, and at the age of 7 was offered a full scholarship to study at the two leading music schools in the UK, but continued her private tuition with Ilana Davids until the age of 10, when she took up a place at the Yehudi Menuhin School of music to study with Irina Zaritskaya. Later, she continued her studies at the Purcell School of music under a full scholarship, and is at present in her third year at the Royal Academy of Music where she is a recipient of the Frederic Jackson Award, studying with Tatiana Sarkissova.
Nika has performed at numerous venues throughout England and abroad, notably, London’s Wigmore Hall on 3 occasions, The Queen Elizabeth Hall, Steinway Hall, The Purcell Room and Jaques Samuels. Concerts abroad include ; The Amsterdam Conservatoire, The Royal Conservatoire in the Hague, the International Mozart Festival in Istanbul, The Coblenz Gymnasium in Germany, the Hudební Škola in Prague and L’Opera Gabriel at the Chateau de Versailles, France. A recipent of numerous prizes and awards, including the musicas fund and the Michael Hamburg trust, Nika received a special award at the 2008 Final of the Yamaha International Piano Competition (YMFE),inviting her to attend that years’ Birmingham International Piano Academy under a full scholarship. Nika has given many recitals and concerto performances in venues throughout Devon, including Plymouth, Dartmouth, Exeter, Torquay, West Buckland Festival, and Dartington’s Great Hall. Nika was a winner of the Young Musicians’ Competition at the Two Moors Festival, where she also gave a recital.
She has had masterclasses with renowned musicians such as Dmitri Bashkirov, Murray Perahia, Jean-Bernard Pommier, John Lill, Boris Berman, Joanna Macgregor and others. A participant of the Tel Hai International Piano Masterclasses in Israel, she studied under Emanuel Krasovsky, playing in a number of masterclasses and performances. In July 2009, she was selected by John Lill to perform in Dartington’s Great Hall in a concert for the Dartington International Summer festival. Recent performances include Rachmaninov’s 2nd piano concerto with Torbay Symphony Orchestra under Richard Gonski.
