Dr Maria Razumovskaya holds a highly respected international profile as a soloist and collaborative performer. Critically-acclaimed studio recordings, and radio broadcasting experience (BBC Radio 3, RTS, Espace 2, ABC Radio etc.) include recitals alongside Nikolai Lugansky, Piotr Andrezewski, Andras Schiff, and Ewa Kupiec; and radio premieres of works by composers including Philippe Hersant, and Roxanna Panufnik. Chamber music partners have included Ilan Scheider, Wolfram Christ, the Alban Berg Quartet, principals of the Berlin Philharmonic, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Luxembourg Philharmonia, Basel Philharmonic, National Opera Orchestra, and soloists of the Mariinsky, Bolshoi, Kyiv, Estonian National and Metropolitan Operas.
She is a Research Fellow at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. Her practice-led, historiographic and archival research specialises in pianism and pedagogy in the long-nineteenth century, creative Soviet diaspora communities, migration dynamics and intersectional implications of socio-political policies on creativity of female musicians in geographies of the former Russian and Soviet Empires.
Research project outputs include international performance-led projects funded by Arts Council England, British Council, European Commission and the AHRC; and peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and monographs outputs ranked 4-star (world-leading in originality, significance and rigour) in the latest REF Cycle.
Her monograph Heinrich Neuhaus: A Life Beyond Music (Boydell & Brewer, 2018) was awarded CHOICE Outstanding Best Academic Title 2019. Her forthcoming book exploring the significance of gesture and physicality in the performativity of Schumann’s piano music, contracted by Bloomsbury Academic, is due to be published in autumn 2026.
Performance reviews:
'Exquisitely cast [...] companionship of passion and intellect.' The Whole Note (Canada)
‘Lyricism, security, dramatic tension. Mastery with every phrase and sentence in place.' American Record Review (USA)
‘Razumovskaya impresses with her excellent technique and clarity... power, a particularly fine poetry and much sensitivity.’
Pizzicato Magazine (Luxembourg)
‘Staggering passion and lyricism.’
Gramophone (United Kingdom)
Monographs:
M. Razumovskaya, Robert Schumann’s Piano Music (Bloomsbury Inc., under contract 2026)
M. Razumovskaya, Heinrich Neuhaus: A Life Beyond Music (Boydell & Brewer, 2018) Awarded CHOICE Outstanding Best Academic Title.
Peer-reviewed journal articles:
M. Razumovskaya, ‘Symbolism in the Pianistic Process of Maria Yudina: Schubert’s Piano Sonata in B-flat major D.960 as the Silver-Age Feminine Voice.’ (Music & Musical Performance, in press, 2026)
M. Razumovskaya. ‘A legacy of autobiographic interpretations in Russian Pianism: Anton Rubinstein’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas as the making of a performer-centred classic.’ (Nineteenth-Century Music, Autumn 2025)
M. Razumovskaya, ‘I wish my life’s roses to have fewer thorns’: Heinrich Neuhaus and Alternative Narratives of Selfhood in Soviet Russia.’ (Journal of the Royal Musicological Association, Spring 2019)
Book chapters:
M. Razumovskaya, ‘Nikolai Medtner: Championing the German Lied and Russian Spirit’ in Laura Tunbridge & Natasha Loges (eds.) German Song on Stage (Indiana University Press, 2020).
M. Razumovskaya, ‘Chopin on the Dnieper: The Musician-Poet and Boris Pasternak’s Search for the Transnational’ in Marleen Rensen & Christopher Wiley (eds.) Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
