Affiliated Artist Sofya Gulyak 2012/13

LIPS  is delighted to welcome the Russian pianist Sofya Gulyak as our afilliated artist for 2012/13.   In September 2009 Sofya Gulyak was awarded the 1st prize and the Princess Mary Gold Medal of the Sixteenth Leeds International Competition – the first woman to achieve this distinction. Sofya has been praised for her ‘tremendous precision and coloration…exquisite soft playing …delicacy yet power’.