Yadviga Grom

Born in Minsk in 1993, Yadviga Grom has been playing the piano since the age of 5. The first years she took lessons from her mother Natallya Grom and at the age of 12 she was admitted to the Gymnasium for musically gifted children at the Belarusian State Academy of Music in Minsk.
Yadviga has won awards at many competitions for young pianists. She made her first orchestral debut at the age of 14. In October 2007, Yadviga moved with her family to Ulm, where she successfully graduated from the Humboldt Gymnasium in 2012. In 2009 she won 2nd prize at the Nuremberg Piano Competition (1st prize was not awarded), as well as 1st state prize (Bavaria) at "Jugend musiziert" in the cello and piano category. In 2011 Yadviga received the 1st national prize with the highest score at "Jugend musiziert" as well as the sponsorship award of the city of Ulm in the field of music. Until graduating from high school, she was a junior student at the Music Academy in Würzburg. After graduating from high school, she continued her musical education at the Musikhochschule Würzburg, first in the class of Prof. Andras Hamary, then with Prof. Markus Bellheim, Prof. Alexander Schimpf and Prof. Bernd Glemser. Yadviga received further important musical impulses from Arnulf von Arnim, Grigory Gruzman, Matti Raekallio and Jacques Rouvier. Concert tours have taken Yadviga to Russia, Austria and Italy. In 2014 she won the DAAD competition in Würzburg and the following year she received 2nd prize at the Steinway competition in Frankfurt. In the summer semester of 2019, Yadviga studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in the class of Prof. Martin Hughes. In July 2019, Yadviga Grom completed her Master's degree with distinction in the class of Prof. Bernd Glemser.
Since winter semester 2018/2019 she holds a teaching position for accompaniment at the University of Music Würzburg.