Eleonora Karpukhova

Today Eleonora Karpukhova is recognized as a benchmark icon not only on the Russian piano scene, but especially worldwide. Its numerous denominations and laurels have designated it a recognition of international prestige in the field of the most important auditoriums in the world. Eleonora has received different distinctions such as for example the Second Prize in the “José Vianna da Motta” International Piano Competition in Lisbon, Portugal; the First Prize and a Special Mention at the 29th International Piano Competition “Dr. Luis Sigall” of Viña del Mar in Chile, the Second Prize of the 18th “Varallo Sessia” International Piano Competition in Italy; Second Prize at the Zagreb “Zlatko Grgosevich” International Piano Competition in Croatia among other distinguished recognitions.

She graduates cum laude at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Moscow under the guidance of the famous Russian pianists Valery Kastelsky and Mikhail Voskressensky.

Eleonora Karpukhova is the founder and promoter of the International Music Festival "Rachmaninov Fest" in Moscow, born in its first edition in 2013 on the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the composer's birth.

Karpukhova has played in the most prestigious concert halls in Russia. She has covered wide world geography, playing in Ukraine, France, Spain, Italy, Holland, Germany, Austria, Chile, Portugal and the United States. Rachmaninov’s Concert Hall, the Chamber Hall and Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow; also the Sala Cartot de Paris in France; the Kleiner Konzertsaal of Gasteig in Munich in Germany; “Gil Vicente” Theater in Coimbra, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, Portugal; Aula Magna Theater at the Federico Santa María Technical University in Valparaíso, Regional Theater del Maule in Talca, Regional Theater in Temuco,San Sebastián University Theater in Santiago in Chile. Likewise, Eleonora is regularly invited to the concert program of the Frye Art Museum and the "Benaroya Hall" in Seattle in the USA; to name a few of them among many other audiences.

Eleonora has been invited as a soloist by the Chilean Symphony Orchestra, the Fundacao Gulbernkian Orchestra, the Metropolitan Orchestra, the Algarve Orchestra, the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, the Algarve Orchestra, the Providencia Symphony Orchestra, the Gdansk Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gdans Symphony Orchestra and a extensive etcetera; collaborating with renowned conductors such as S. Soldatov, Y. Yanko, M. Levine, R.Abyazov, D. Kolobov, A. Cassuto, D. del Pino Klinge, F. Lentini, D. Nazareth, A. Dumay, M. Zilm, F. Rettig, G.Keast among others.

Eleonora currently combines her concert activity by giving piano classes at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where she appears as Associate Professor within the piano faculty.

Among her numerous record publications, it is worth mentioning the recording of the works for piano by Sergei Rachmaninov, of whom she considers herself a fervent admirer. Precisely, in this last season, the 2021/2022 season, Karpukhova has created great expectation among Russian specialized critics with an unprecedented challenge in the history of the piano: in the programmes of the concert halls of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, she is carrying out the monographic and complete of all the extensive and enormous work for piano of Sergei Rachmaninov.