Victoria FatuVictoria Fatu

Music Teacher Grades 3-5

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Educational Background:
Moscow Music Conservatory, International Center for Music at Park University, Masters Degree from UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance (in progress)

 

 

Victoria Fatu was born in 1984 in Baku, Azerbaijan. She showed an early interest in the arts, and she began singing at age three, wrote poetry from age four, and started studying the piano at age of eight at the Music Studio School „Young Talents” in Moscow. The following year she entered the Central Special Music School at the Moscow State Conservatory, where she studied for nine years under Elena Rikhter. In 1995, at the age of 10, she performed Mozart’s D-minor Concerto, K. 466, in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, with Vladimir Fedoseev conducting the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra. She continued her studies with Rikhter at the Moscow Conservatory from 2002 to 2008. In 2008-2010 at the International Center for Music at Park University in Missouri, she is pursued graduate studies under Van Cliburn Competition Gold Medalist Stanislav Ioudenitch. Currently Victoria Fatu is pursuing the Masters Degree and UMKC Conservatory of music and Dance under Robert Weirich.

Victoria Fatu has appeared on television and radio in numerous countries around the world, and has recorded on CDs and videos. Her name has been added to the “Golden Book of the Russian Federation.” She has also had a career as a jazz singer, under Russian management. She currently lives in Kansas City with her husband, Romanian violinist Christian Fatu and their little baby Vivienne.