Concert Series: Anastasiya Petryshak & Lorenzo Meo

Violin and piano concert performed by Petryshak & Meo.

About the artists:

Anastasiya Petryshak was born in Ukraine in 1994. In 2005 she moved to Italy to continue her studies, becoming the youngest student of Maestro Salvatore Accardo at the “Walter Stauffer” Academy in Cremona for eight years. Her international career allows Anastasiya to play all over the world in the most prestigious concert halls with renowned orchestras and conductors such as Vasily Petrenko and Gianluigi Gelmetti: all European countries but also beyond like United States, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, South Africa. She has recorded her first CD “Amato Bene” with “Gli Archi dell’Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale  di Santa Cecilia”, playing the Stradivari “Il Toscano”, issued by Sony Classical. 

She received the “European Personality in the Classical Music” award in 2016. Anastasiya regularly plays for world class projects like presidential state visits or “Il Grande Mistero” wanted by Pope Francis in European religious landmarks such as Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.

Lorenzo Meo is an Italian pianist and composer, currently living in Zurich, Switzerland. He has won prizes in various piano competitions. Committed to the popularization of contemporary music, he is the dedicatee of several compositions that he premieres at various specialized festivals. He is a particularly appreciated interpreter of Jaan Rääts: music by the Estonian author performed by him is recorded on the CDs “Boundaries” (2005) and “The E.P.M. Project” (2009). The repertoire ranges from works of the classical period to the more modern works and languages of ‘new music’. Since 2014, he has been collaborating regularly with violinist Anastasiya Petryshak with an extensive repertoire ranging from the classical period to the 21st century and including pieces of contemporary music expressly written for and dedicated to this duo.