EKATERINA MELNIKOVA

Organist, composer and winner of many international competitions. Played in many famous venues from the Westminster Abbey in London and Notre-Dame de Paris to Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow.

“Ekaterina is a marvellous musician! She has a fine sense of registration and colour.” Jean Guillou

“She has a marvellous technical facility but in addition, such persuasion and energy in her interpretations combined with total commitment to the music she is playing.” Sir Nicholas Danby

“Ekaterina is a prolific composer and arranger and has been commissioned to write music for several important Russian state cultural events, including the inauguration of the new Glatter-Götz organ at the Bolshoy Theatre. Ekaterina’s organ transcriptions of Saint-Saёns’ The Carnival of the Animals and Borodin’s Polovtian Dances are published by Wayne Leupold Editions.”  Grand Organ Festival, Westminster Cathedral 2019

Born of a leading Moscow music family, Ekaterina Melnikova’s early talent was nurtured by the best of the Russian musical tradition.  Her performance career includes important venues in Russia, the Middle East and Europe. 2005-2008 principal organist of Moscow RC Cathedral, 2003-2008 was teaching organ improvisation at the Russian Gnessin Academy of Music. 2000-2014 Organ Soloist of Moscow State Philharmonia. She  gained the reputation of the master of organ transcriptions and creator of new organ repertoire.

Since 2009 started  to present organ projects in a new format where organist becomes an author and a performer, collaborating with other musicians, using modern stage production technology.

Ekaterina has received several commissions to compose and perform music for state events at the most iconic of Russia’s venues.