About me

I am a musician who teaches, not a teacher who used to play.

Ekaterina at a white grand piano, smiling at the camera

National Music Academy of Ukraine, three qualifications in one diploma: piano teacher, orchestral soloist, chamber ensemble performer.

After graduating from the Academy in Kyiv I worked at the Glinka Dnipro Academy of Music as an accompanist and a piano teacher.

Both first-graders and academy students have passed through my hands.

Then came the move to Dubai and a private practice here.

I still play

For a teacher this is not a decoration on a biography. A child hears the difference between someone who plays and someone who explains how it should be played.

Ekaterina at a white Blüthner grand piano, from behind

For three years I was the pianist and accompanist of the Felicity orchestra at Dubai Opera.

Musicians of the Felicity orchestra on stage with strings, winds and saxophone
With the Felicity orchestra on stage
Musicians of the Felicity orchestra in evening dress backstage
The Felicity orchestra backstage
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The Felicity orchestra, Dubai Opera, 2025
The Felicity orchestra, Dubai Opera

Recognition

I play for the royal families of the United Arab Emirates.

Ekaterina and Sheikh Suroor bin Mohamed Al Nahyan seated at a table with tea
With Sheikh Suroor bin Mohamed Al Nahyan, Al Ain Rotana, Abu Dhabi, 2019
Ekaterina standing beside Sheikh Suroor bin Mohamed Al Nahyan, holding his arm
With Sheikh Suroor bin Mohamed Al Nahyan, Al Ain Rotana, Abu Dhabi, 2019
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Oasis Living, Al Ain, March 2016

An article about me, “Musical greetings from Katerina”, in the Music Makers column.

T. Medvednikova, Pianists. 1898–2018, Dnipro, 2017

A historical and biographical reference book of the Glinka Dnipro Academy of Music. It includes an entry about me.

PRESIDENT Family, Japan, winter 2023 issue

A report on Japanese families in Dubai. The photo shows my lesson with Kanata Kato; his certificates and diplomas are on the Results page.

Cover of Oasis Living, issue 64, March 2016
Oasis Living, issue 64, March 2016A magazine about life in Al Ain, UAE.
The article “Musical greetings from Katerina” with a photo of Ekaterina at the piano
Oasis Living, page 10“Musical greetings from Katerina”. In the Music Makers column, Emma Leavers meets pianist Katerina Lingovskaya, who played in the lobby of the Al Ain Rotana.
Cover of the reference book Pianists. 1898–2018
T. Medvednikova, Pianists. 1898–2018A reference book on 120 years of pianists, from the music classes of the Imperial Russian Musical Society in Yekaterinoslav to the Glinka Dnipro Academy of Music. Dnipro, 2017. In Russian.
The entry on Ekaterina Lingovskaya in the book, with a photo
The entry about meIn brief: in 1997 I graduated with honours from the Glinka Music College in Dnipropetrovsk, in 2002 from the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv. From 2003 I worked at the Glinka Music College, from 2004 I taught at the Glinka Dnipro Academy of Music. Now I live and work in the UAE as a pianist for the royal families.
A page of PRESIDENT Family with a photo of the lesson
PRESIDENT Family, Japan, winter 2023, page 111A report on Japanese families raising children in Dubai. The photo caption reads: “In piano and in ballet alike, the teachers are strict.”
Ekaterina explains at a whiteboard while Kanata Kato plays a white piano
My lesson with Kanata KatoThe same page, close up.
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I spend a lot of time building contact with the child and with the parents

Without trust a child closes up, and no method gets around that.

Almost all my students came on the recommendation of earlier ones. There are children who have gone with me from the first lesson to finishing music school.