Natalia Sikorska

Natalia Sikorska is a Ukrainian pianist, harpsichordist, and performer on hammer-claviers, Ph.D (Arts studies).

Born in Kyiv, she studied and graduated from the piano faculty of the National Music Academy of Ukraine (prof. Yu. Kot), and completed an assistantship-internship in the harpsichord class at the Early Music Department of the same institution under prof. S. Shabaltina. Then she went deeper into the Baroque theories and practiced performing the clavier repertoire.
She was awarded diplomas in international competitions as a pianist-concertmaster (1995) and chamber musician (1996, 2006). She won the main prize "Premio Wanda Landowska" at the Wanda Landowska Harpsichord Competition 2017 in Italy.
She took part in numerous masterclasses, competitions, festivals and concert events in Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Germany, Belgium, Japan, Italy. Sikorska initiated the long-term project of regular lectures-concerts of early music "Ecology of Sound" that took place in the House of the Kyiv Viyt and Uvarovskyi Dim. She has been the initiator and soloist of early music programs in the National Philharmonic of Ukraine as well.
Her pedagogical activity began in 1994; she has worked as a concertmaster and piano teacher in various state educational institutions. Since 2021, he has worked as an associate professor of the Department of Concertmastering at the National Academy of Music of Ukraine, and teaching theoretical courses on the history and methods of concertmaster art, as well as her own course of lectures "Score Editions in Modern Performing Practice".
Sikorska is the author of scientific articles in professional publications: the article "Musical Rhetorique" in the Ukrainian Musical Encyclopedia, which also features a personal article dedicated to her.
She also pays attention to modern harpsichord music, especially the works of Ukrainian composers.
In her musical activities, she uses a copy of J. Rückers’ harpsichord and an authentic 1812 square piano by E. Rochead.