Position: Senior Teacher of the Special Piano Department
Education: Belarusian State Academy of Music (2017, piano class by N.I.Tashchilina), Master’s degree under the guidance of V.L.Yakonyuk (2018)
Courses taught: Special instrument (piano), Piano ensemble
She was born on September 28, 1992 in Minsk (Belarus).
Since 2018, she has been a teacher at the Special Piano Department of the Belarusian State Academy of Music, since 2019 she has been a Senior teacher at the Special Piano Department. She is a teacher at the Republican Gymnasium-College under the Belarusian State Academy of Music, a teacher at the Children’s Music School No. 2 named after N.I.Aladov, Minsk.
Laureate of over 30 International and Republican piano competitions (Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Chile, Poland, Germany, Italy, France, Lithuania, Ukraine, Holland, Scotland, England, USA).
Among the latest achievements are the title of Laureate of the 3rd Prize of the International European Online Piano Competition “TvClassique” (Italy, October, 2021), 1st Prize of the International Competition of Instrumental and Vocal Performance “Lege Artis” (Moscow, Russia, 2021), 3rd Prize of the International Competition-Festival “Firebird” (Naberezhnye Chelny, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, 2021), 1st Prize of the A.Nemtin International Competition (Perm, Russia, 2020), Diploma of the Laureate of the 3rd International Festival of Music Academies (Warsaw, Poland), 3rd Prize of the II Christian Tkachevsky International Competition in Busko-Zdrój (Poland, 2017), Laureate of the “Golden Parnassus 2016” of the XI International Piano Forum “Sorrow Without Borders” in Sanok (Poland), she was also given the Audience Award and the Chopin Prize named after Tatiana Shebanova, the Elzbieta and Krzysztof Penderecki Prize for the best performance of a piano concerto with orchestra, a special Diploma “Forum Personality”. Grand Prix at the XV International Piano Competition “Music Without Borders” in Druskininkai (Lithuania, 2015) and 2nd Prize at the XLI International Piano Competition in memory of L.Sigall in Viña del Mar (Chile, 2014). In 2015, she was a participant of the XVII F.Chopin International Piano Competition (Warsaw, Poland).
She is a five-time (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2015) winner of the Grand Prize and a Laureate of the Special Fund of the President of the Republic of Belarus for Support of the Talented Youth. She has repeatedly performed with leading chamber and symphony orchestras under the baton of world-famous conductors.
Yu.Ermolaeva participated in master classes led by the world’s leading pianists, professors Mikhail Voskresensky, Vera Nosina, Arkady Sevidov, Alexei Lyubimov (Russia), Marek Drewnowski, Andrzej Jasinski, Andrzej Tatarski (Poland), Konrad Elser (Germany), Stefan Möller (Austria) , Evgeny Indzhicha (France), Daniel Petralia (Italy), Christian Tkachevsky (Poland-USA), Tatiana Vetrinsky (Russia-USA).
She was invited as a Chairman and Jury Member of national and International piano competitions, and also conducted master classes in music colleges of the Republic.
The owner of more than 25 Diplomas for high pedagogical skills and certificates of gratitude for training of laureates.
She has stock records on the Belarusian radio.