Bronika Kushkuley was born on August 5 1987. She is studying piano with professor Wha Kyung Byun of the New England Conservatory. Bronika has been the first prize winner of many prestigious competitions, including the 1995 and 1997 International Young Artists Piano Competition in Washington D.C. (where she performed at winners recitals at the Kennedy Center), the Massachusetts State Young Artists Piano Competition in 1996, and the International Young Pianists Competition in Senigallia, Italy in 1997 where she competed with forty-six pianists under age sixteen from twenty countries.
Boston Globe correspondent Richard Buell wrote about Bronika in his review of her concert (Boston Globe, May 27, 1998) that:
"... the sheer fluency, accuracy, variety of tone, and articulation she could call upon was scarcely to be believed. That she seemed to be offering a real, even highly personal, interpretation of everything she played was even more remarkable".
He described the performance of Sarabande movement of Bach’s G Minor English Suite (BVW 808) as
"Soulful and inward in emotion, subtly flexible as to phrasing and tempo, the performance spoke familiarly of matters that no 10-year-old – not even 10-year-old Albert Schweitzer – could know of".
Bronika has already established herself as a seasoned concert artist, having performed in numerous piano recitals in Massachussets , New York, Connecticut, Hawaii, Germany, Austria, Italy, Holland, France and Switzerland.
Bronika's first solo CD, recorded when she was 10 years old, is available at Tower Records ( Boston, Cambridge and Burlington ) and at Amazon.com
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Concert pianist Oxana Yablonskaya, Professor of the Juilliard School
(Boston Globe, January 11, 1998).