Natalia Kovalevskaya

Natalia Kovalevskaya was born in Moscow, Russia. She graduated from Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the class of professor Marine Yashvili.
Between 1991 and 1996, Natalia collaborated with chamber and symphony orchestras led by Alexander Mikhailov, Vladimir Ponkin, Pavel Kogan and Mikhail Rakhlevsky, among others. From 1997 to 2002 she played as principal violin with the Molodaya Rossiya Orchestra directed by Mark Gorenstein. In 2001 she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Russia.

From 2002 she played with the “Evgeny Svetlanov” State Academic Symphony Orchestra as second principal. Also in 2002, she founded the String Quartet of soloists of State Academic Symphony Orchestra.

Natalia has performed with many foremost conductors, including Valery Gergiev, Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Jurovsky, Alexander Lazarev, Gennadiy Rozhdestvensky, Mikhail Yurovsky, Leonard Slatkin, Voldemar Nelsohn, Gintaras Rinkyavichus, and with top soloists: Denis Matsuev, Anna Netrebko, Hibla Gerzmava, Leonidas Kavakos, Patricia Kopachinskaya, Maxim Vengerov, Nikolay Luganskiy and others.

Natala Kovalevskaya is co-author, one of the organizers, and a regular performer in the “Musical Kaleidoscope” series of subscription chamber music concerts. Her partners in chamber ensembles are Dmitry Alexeev, Boris Petrushansky, Mikhail Mordvinov and Sergey Girshenko.

She takes part in many festivals and has many concerts as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician in Russia and worldwide. Since 2017 she has held the post of Principal Concertmaster of the Moscow Bow Tie Orchestra.