With new-found support and determination, Lisitsa posted her first YouTube video in 2007, gaining even more online attention after uploading her own set of Chopin etudes online for free (in response to an illegal upload of the same set beforehand). However, this fall was prevented through the support of a telephone operator at the center Lisitsa was applying to.
In 1992 the couple married.Īfter the death of her manager, and with the thought that she was "just another blonde Russian pianist"Lisitsa almost gave up on her career as a concert pianist, and contemplated becoming a local worker for the government in Washington, D.C. Their New York debut was at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in 1995. In the same year, they moved to the United States to further their careers as concert pianists. In 1991, they won the first prize in The Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition in Miami, Florida. It was when Lisitsa met Kuznetsoff that she began to take music more seriously. Lisitsa attended the Lysenko music school for Gifted Children and, later, Kiev Conservatory, where she and her future husband, Alexei Kuznetsoff, studied under Dr. She started playing the piano at the age of three, performing her first solo recital at the age of four.ĭespite her early disposition to music, her dream at that point was to become a professional chess player.
Lisitsa was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1973.
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