Pianist Antonina Suhanova has performed on international stages since 2000. After studies in her native Latvia, she was admitted to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where from 2012 to 2018 she acquired First Class Bachelor of Music and Master of Performance degrees, both with distinction, under the tutelage of the distinguished British pianist Ronan O’Hora.
Antonina Suhanova has performed at the Steinway Hall in New York, the Wiener Saal in Salzburg, Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St James’s Piccadilly, Milton Court Concert Hall and Barbican Hall in London, the Riga Great Guild Hall, the Moscow International House of Music, and the Erin Arts Centre. In 2018, her solo debut at the Wigmore Hall was broadcasted live on BBC Radio 3. Performances of Antonina Suhanova have also been broadcasted by Latvian Radio, Russian TV and Switzerland radio.
Antonina is a recipient of the Hattori Foundation Senior Award, the Kenneth Loveland Gift, Help Musicians UK awards, the Drake Calleja Trust award, Making Music UK, the Musicians’ Company award, the William Brown prize in the Scottish International Piano Competition (2017) and a nominee for the International German Piano Award 2018. After completing the Artist Diploma course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with distinction, Antonina was appointed junior fellow of the school. In 2019, she became a winner of the Help Musicians UK Transmission Fund award, the Making Music UK Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists award, and the Musicians’ Company award.
Antonina’s artistic schedule in 2020 includes appearances with the Kensington Chamber Orchestra, the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra and the Leicester Symphony Orchestra performing Beethoven Piano Concertos 1, 4 and 5, as well as a debut solo performance in the Southbank Centre Purcell Room.
Antonina Suhanova is kindly supported by Making Music’s Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists scheme
This concert is now live on YouTube.