София Вашерук

Playing Tchaikovsky's First Concerto at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ under Stefan Asbury in November 2013, Sofia Vasheruk took third prize at the Dutch Young Pianists Foundation competition in Amsterdam. Born in Moscow in 1988, she read for her degrees with Michail Markov at the ArtEZ Conservatory in Enschede — a bachelor's in 2012 with the highest possible mark, a master's with distinction in 2014 — and worked with Elisso Virsaladze at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole between 2012 and 2016. She was a semifinalist at the Queen Elisabeth in Brussels and a finalist at the Busoni in 2013, and holds the Grand Prix of the André Dumortier competition and third prize at the Thalberg in Naples. Her Moscow Philharmonic Hall debut came in March 2017 with the Russian National Orchestra under Vasily Sinaisky. She founded the Siestango Quartet in 2008 to play Piazzolla and, in 2015, Music Take In, a Dutch foundation for concerts that combine playing with theatre; her first disc marked the Debussy centenary.