The Ukrainian pianist Svetlana Andreeva won the 16th Orléans International Piano Competition. South Africa’s Leo Gevisser took second prize and Japan’s Misora Ozaki third.
Svetlana Andreeva was born in Dzhankoy, a small city on the Crimean Peninsula in the South of Ukraine.
In 2011, Svetlana won her first Grand Prize at the 3rd International Rosario Marciano Piano Competition in Vienna. In the following years she became a prizewinner of various prestigious international competitions, such as the Paderewski International Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz, the Southern Highland International Piano Competition in Australia, the Campillos International Piano Competition, Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Meryem International Piano Competition, and many others. Over the last several years, Svetlana has studied with the Professor Stefan Arnold at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin as well as the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
