Natasha Szervanszky - (Inghilterra)

Natasha Cavaye was born in Tokyo in 1981. Her mother (Valeria Szervánszky) is Hungarian and her father (Ronald Cavaye) British.
She and her family returned to London in 1985. Natasha attended Channing School in Highgate. Inspired by a visit to the International Musician’s Seminar at Prussia Cove where her mother was teaching, she began to play the cello at the age of 11.
In 1996 Natasha began studying jointly with Rosemary Elliott and her husband Steven Doane, and entered the Purcell School as a Department of Education Music and Ballet Scheme Scholar at the age of 16.
Whilst attending the Purcell school, she was also awarded the Leverhulme scholarship.
In the summer of 1997 she attended the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival at Brunswick, USA where she studied cello and chamber music with Rosemary Elliott and Steven Doane.
During the following three summers Natasha also took part in ntensive masterclasses with Marcio Carneiro.
In 1999 she began to study with Alexander Boyarsky and in September 1999 she entered the Royal College of Music as an Exhibitioner to continue her studies.
Natasha has received numerous prizes whilst at the Royal College of Music. In 2000, her quartet received the Helen Just/Susan Connel Prize, as well as the Gerard Heller Intercollegiate Prize, held at the Royal Academy of Music.
In March 2003 Natasha received the Anna Shuttleworth Solo Cello Prize for her performance of the Kodály Solo Sonata.
In December 2003, Natasha performed the Tchaikovsky Roccoco Variations with the Fulham Symphony Orchestra in Fulham Town Hall, London.
In May 2000, Natasha was a finalist and special prize winner at the David Popper International Cello Competition in Hungary.
In the following year, Natasha was chosen to represent the Philharmonia Orchestra in a concert played at the British Embassy in Paris for the Price Waterhouse-Cooper company.
Natasha is currently taking lessons from professor Csaba Onczay at the Liszt Academy in Budapest as well as regularly participating in cello classes given by Jerome Pernoo at the Royal college in London.
Natasha is interested in literature and art. As well as English, she speaks Hungarian and Japanese - her original mother languages.