Maria Chaykovskaya

Ukrainian singer, pianist, composer, arranger, producer, author and performer of her own songs and instrumental music.

Maria Tchaikovsky was born on October 27, 1986 in Sumy. She received her first music lessons from her mother Irina, a pianist, choral soloist and conductor. And Tchaikovskaya's grandfather, mom's dad Leonid, was a descendant of Nikolai Lysenko and once worked as a soloist of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Lviv Prikarpatsky Military District.

At the age of 8 Maria enters musical school № 3 in Sumy and finishes the first class of the teacher Nelly Voronovsky, who notices the talent in the girl and advises to enter a specialized school.

There was no such school in her native city, so at the age of 9 Maria and her mother moved to Kharkov. At the specialized music school in Kharkov the future singer falls in with the teachers Irina Krivonos and Elena Kolesnikova, under whose guidance at the age of 11 wins her first International Competition for Young Pianists. After that, she became an active participant and winner of international festivals - competitions, and the school graduates with honors.

According to Tchaikovskaya, these women energized her with their talent. "With Irina Alexandrovna, I played Bach's F Minor Concerto in the entrance exam for another class - a great result, a powerful start for a child, for his faith in his strength. And Elena Lvovna was incredibly charming on the piano and inspired by her boundless love of music and professional performance of works of art". Maria lived at the time in a dormitory at the school. She has an absolute musical ear, thanks to which she has the ability to instantly play any music she hears on the instrument. Even as a child, Tchaikovsky had the ability to write music, but it was not until high school that she began to produce songs.

Her first work was written under the impression of the American melodrama "Autumn in New York". After watching it, the girl went home and, as she thought, repeated the music from the movie on the piano. Later, she revisited "Autumn" and was surprised to find that her tune and the melody from the movie did not match at all. That's how Tchaikovsky realized she had written her own song. Interestingly, Maria had never sung or dreamed of a singing career until that moment. According to Tchaikovsky, "After hearing others sing my work, I realized that I lacked that special sound of my feelings inside me - my songs made me sing."

While still in high school, Maria toured extensively with leading orchestras in Ukraine. Once at a festival in Feodosia, Maria Tchaikovsky performed "Burlesque" by Miroslav Mikhailovich Skoryk. After which the author came up to her and said laughing that he had never heard his Ukrainian "Burlesque" played so quickly and virtuoso. The maestro offered Maria to become a soloist of the Lvov Chamber Orchestra, where he was conductor and leader. The artist remembers that time of creative cooperation with particular warmth and joy.

After school, Maria Tchaikovskaya enters Kharkov Conservatory, which she finishes at once in two departments: classical music - the teacher Vladimir Mikhailovich Ptushkin, and jazz - the teacher Sergei Petrovich Davydov.

On the next day after graduating from the Conservatory Maria receives a sailor's passport and becomes a jazz and classical pianist of a big jazz band Regent Art Orchestra and soon she goes on a six-month tour to Europe.