Julia Severus

Julia Severus began playing the piano at the age of four. She graduated from the Berlin University of Arts and Moscow Conservatory, where she studied with Michail Voskresensky and Lev Naoumov. She received her Ph.D. for her dissertation on J.S. Bach’s Articulation Practice at the TU Berlin. In 2002 she founded the piano ensembles Aurora Duo and Quartet, serving since then as their artistic director. Concerts have taken her to the Bayreuth Easter Festival, the Musikfestspiele Potsdam-Sanssouci, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Festival East-West at the Zielona Góra Philharmonic, the St Petersburg International Conservatory Week, the Tübinger Pianistenfestival, the Kulturfeste Brandenburg and the Konserthus Oslo, among other engagements. With the Aurora Quartet she has performed numerous premières and world premières, among them Rodion Shchedrin’s Hommage à Chopin and Wolfgang Plagge’s Mare and Concerto Grosso III. Their CDs Russian Romantic Piano Transcriptions and Mare, with first recordings of music for two pianos eight hands, have received high critical acclaim. With her colleague Alina Luschtschizkaja, Julia Severus has also recorded Tchaikovsky’s ballet suites for piano duo. At present she is director of the Conservatoire de musique et de danse in France.

For more information please visit www.aurora-quartett.de.

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