Maria Razumovskaya has been described as a ‘virtuoso story-teller of the piano’ (Le Courrier), and possessing a 'beguiling musical artistry' (BBC Radio 3).

 

She performs internationally at major international festivals and venues including the Cheltenham Festival, Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, Cadogan Hall, Holywell Room, SJE Arts Piano International Series, Lavaux Classique, Zurich Stadt Kultur, Piano City Milan, Paris Musée d’Orsay, Yogyakarta Philharmonia, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia, and the Rachmaninov Hall and Skryabin Museum in Moscow. Critically-acclaimed live performances have been recorded and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and featured as highlights in their ‘Performing Miracles’ series, RTS, Espace 2, Radio Orfeo, and ABC Radio.

 

Razumovskaya's  debut-disc recorded by Tony Faulkner on the Malachite label was shortlisted for the Liszt Disque Grand Prix, and subsequent recordings for the label have been singled out by international publications such as Pizzicato magazine, and praised for the performance’s ‘extraordinary mastery’ [American Record Guide] and ‘staggering passion and lyricism’ [Gramophone]. Further recordings including the works of Busoni, Liszt, CPE Bach and Rachmaninov; Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky.

 

Chamber music partners include Faina Lushtak, Ilan Schneider, Wolfram Christ, the Alban Berg Quartet, principals of the Berlin Philharmonic, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Luxembourg Philharmonia, Basel Philharmonic, National Opera Orchestra of Paris, and soloists of the Mariinsky Opera, Bolshoi Opera, Estonian National Opera, Kyiv Opera, and Metropolitan Opera. As a faculty and guest artist at international summer schools she has played recitals alongside artists including Nikolai Lugansky, Marc Andre Hamelin, Piotr Andrezewski, and Ewa Kupiec; and has premiered works by composers including Philippe Hersant.​ She is in demand internationally as guest faculty at music academies and festivals, competition juror, and an external examiner for several institutions.

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She is always keen to share her curiosity for the stories behind the music and its makers. Razumovskaya's writings include an award-wining monograph on the legendary pianist and pedagogue Heinrich Neuhaus (Boydell & Brewer) - which won the CHOICE Outstanding Best Academic Title. And currently is preparing her next book, looking at the psychology and physiology behind Schumann's piano music, for publication.

 

Other writings include several book chapters (Indiana University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Bloomsbury Academic), peer-reviewed articles for academic journal, and also essays for the wider press including BBC Music, International Piano, Pianist magazines.

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Her practice-led, historiographic and archival research specialises in pianism and pedagogy in the long-nineteenth century, creative Soviet diaspora communities, migration dynamics and intersectional implications of socio-political policies on creativity of female musicians in geographies of the former Russian and Soviet Empires.

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Maria Razumovskaya received her pianistic training in the class of Rustem Hayroudinoff at the Royal Academy of Music in London, graduating with Distinction and several prizes. She furthered her studies with Professor Dmitri Alexeev as an Arts and Humanities Research Council doctoral scholar at the Royal College of Music.  

 

Razumovskaya is a professor and Research Fellow at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is also a professor and Director of Musical Performance & Performance Studies at the University of Oxford.

 

Maria Razumovskaya is a Steinway Artist.