Despite her age, Akkenzhe is a experienced and highly demanded piano teacher and concert pianist. She shares her knowledge and own unique approach to piano performance on social media and conducts master classes for students. Akkenzhe is a driven professional musician. She aims to influence audiences through her unique artistic approach.
In 2011, she took part in an international competition, through which she was admitted as a student to one of the leading professors, Svetlana Masover, and received a full scholarship for a Bachelor’s degree at the National Conservatory named after Kurmangazy. In 2014, Akkenzhe also started taking lessons with Michael Voskresensky (Moscow Conservatory) and Dina Yoffe (Hamburg Conservatory).
After successfully completing her Bachelor’s degree in 2016, she received an invitation to work in Singapore as a Master Piano Teacher for SMART students. Her work with young pianists resulted in numerous awards for her students in international piano competitions (Chopin Competition, Steinway Competition, Grand Prize Competition London, etc.), while she herself was awarded the Best Teaching Prize at the International Youth Piano Competition in 2017.
A professional classical pianist with her own unique artistic approach
Akkenzhe is one of the bright piano talents recognised by the Ministry of Education in Kazakhstan after winning First Prize at a piano competition in 2014. At the age of five, she began learning the piano. In order to pursue her musical talents, she enrolled at the Republican Boarding Music School of Zhubanov for talented children, where she studied under the guidance of Larisa Minkina, who helped her succeed in piano performance.
In 2010, Akkenzhe was the youngest winner of the International Gaku Piano Competition, where she was awarded Third Prize. Following this success, Akkenzhe was invited to perform as a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra in 2010, which progressed her career to the next level.
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