Real name: Екатерина Георгиевна Новицкая

Effective period / Period of releases: 1968 - 1978

Russian-Belgian pianist, born October 24, 1951. She studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Lev Oborin. In 1968, Novitskaya won the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, the youngest participant and the first woman to win the contest.

Yekaterina moved to Belgium in 1978, and debuted as a solo performer in New York in 1985. In 1996, Mstislav Rostropovich organized her tour in Russia, with concerts at Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Nizhni Novgorod.