Biography: Ksenia Ovodova

Ksenia Ovodova was born in 1990 in Krasnoyarsk to a family of famous Siberian pianists. She started her piano training at the age of 4 with her grandmother Ovodova L.E. At the age of 7, she entered the Music Lyceum of Krasnoyarsk in the class of her father Ovodov S.A. and performed with the Krasnoyarsk Academic Symphony Orchestra. In spite of her young age, Ksenia had a great success throughout Siberia.

Ksenia is a laureate of many competitions: the Open regional competition "Hope-98" in Krasnoyarsk (1998), the Fourth Open Competition for Young Siberian Pianists in Novosibirsk (1999), the Third International Competition for Young Pianists in Morioka, Japan (2000), the International Competition "Hope 2001" and "Hope 2004" in Krasnoyarsk (2001, 2004) and The Tenth International Skryabin Piano Competition in Paris (2010). She is also a laureate of the Krasnoyarsk's Head Prize. In 2003 and 2004, Ksenia was an active participant of the International Music Festival "Seasons" (Moscow and Saint Petersburg).

In 2005, she continued her studies at the Academic Music College in the class of Vera Khoroshina, from which she graduated with distinction in 2009, and enrolled at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. In 2012 and 2013, she was a jury member of the "Young Virtuoso" Competition in Moscow. In 2012, she entered the University Mozarteum in Salzburg (Austria) in the classes of prof. Florian Birsak (harpsichord) and prof. Wolfgang Brunner (fortepiano). At the same time, she studied at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Sergey Kasprov (piano), Olga Filippova and Maria Uspenskaya (harpsichord), Alexey Shevchenko and Alexey Lubimov (fortepiano). In 2014, she graduated with distinction and got the certificate "Best graduate of the Year".

In 2013, she received an honorable mention as a fortepianist at the International Competition "Musica Antiqua" (Bruges, Belgium). In 2015, Ksenia graduated from "La Schola Cantorum" (Paris, France) in the class of prof. Igor Lazko. In 2016, she continued her studies at The Royal Conservatoire of Brussels, class of prof. Daniel Blumenthal, and in 2017 at The Royal Conservatoire of Mons with prof. Yuka Izutsu. Ksenia took part in international masterclasses given by Malcolm Bilson, Bart van Oort (fortepiano) and Hugo Reyne (chamber music). Ksenia collaborated with such outstanding musicians as Reinhard Goebel, Dorothee Oberlinger, Henry Raudales, Gábor Tarkövy, Marc Geujon, Dirk Brossé and Enrique Mazzola.