Lilia Yakusheva

Organ

Lilia Yakusheva was born in 1993 in Kursk. Graduated from the Kursk Georgy Sviridov College of Music (piano class of Valery Makarov). She also studied composition. Began to take independent studies in organ from the age of fourteen at the Kursk Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God. Subsequently graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (organ class of Alexey Parshin).

Performs in Moscow, St Petersburg, Kursk, Tula, Vladimir, Yessentuki, Kazan, Kislovodsk, Smolensk, Kirov, Chelyabinsk, Ulyanovsk, Vitebsk, Donetsk and other towns and cities in recital and with ensembles. Has participated in the festival A Musical Tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach (Gnesin Russian Academy of Music), the Moscow International Organ Festival (Moscow Conservatory) and the Frau Organ International Festival (Chelyabinsk) among others. In May 2017 she performed a charitable concert in Gunsbach (France). In 2021 Lilia Yakusheva played at the IХ International Organ Festival Mariinsky.

Prize-winner at the Golden Lyre All-Russian Open Festival and Competition of Organ Music (Fryazino, Moscow Region, 2018; 1^st prize), the 10^th Moscow Leopold Mozart Open Festival and Competition for Young Performers of Early Music (2018; 1^st prize), the 4^th Moscow Nicolaas Bidloo Young Performing Artists’ Festival (2018; 2^nd prize), the 2^nd All-Russian Performing Musicians’ Competition A Galaxy of Bach (Korolyov, Moscow Region, 2018; 1^st prize), the 6^th International Valery Kikta Organ Competition (Kislovodsk, 2018; 3^rd prize), the 1^st All-Russian Friedrich Joseph Haass Performing Musicians’ Competition Go and Do Good! (Moscow, 2018; 1^st prize), the 2^nd All-Russian Performing Musicians’ Competition Stairway to Mastery (Moscow, 2021; Grand Prix) and the 1^st All-Russian Competition of Performers of Etudes and Virtuoso Pieces (Moscow, 2021; Grand Prix).
Information for February 2023