Mira Yevtich (Piano)
Mira Yevtich was born in Belgrade (Serbia). She studied at
the Classical Grammar School and Music School of Belgrade.
At the suggestion of an outstanding teacher of the Central
School of Music of the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow Evgeny
Timakin in the number of gifted children she was sent to Moscow to study
there. After leaving school she entered the conservatoire, and then
undertook a postgraduate course, studying under Stanislav Neuhaus.
In 1988 she completed a postgraduate course at the Gnesins’
Russian Academy of Music (class of Boris Moiseyevich Berlin). She went on to
take consultations from the outstanding St Petersburg teacher Marina
Wolf. During her studies she won a piano competition in the former
Yugoslavia (Zagreb). From 1993 to 2000 Mira Yevtich was a Professor at
the International Conservatory in Sydney (Australia).
From 1998 to 2000 she initiated an exchange programme between
the St Petersburg Conservatoire and the International
Conservatory in Sydney. She was a Guest Professor at
the St Petersburg Conservatoire in 1999. In 2005 she was
a Guest Professor at the University of Monash (Melbourne). She has
repeatedly appeared as a jury member at international competitions. In 2007
she organised an international biennale piano competition held
in the Southern Highlands (New South Wales, Australia).
She has performed in concert since 1980 and has toured throughout
the world (Austria, France, Russia, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain, Germany,
the USA, Australia, Serbia and Croatia). She has performed with such
conductors as Svetlanov, Gergiev, Bashmet, Katz, Anisimov, Polishchuk, Rath,
Naito and Perrin among others. She has an extensive discography. She
currently lives in Italy and France.
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