Photographs

The stage door,
the piano,
the flowers.

45 photographs from her own archive. The newest first: her studio, California and India. Then the concert stage, an outdoor stage in Times Square, a church, a room with an oil painting on the wall.

Katya Grineva's studio: a black grand piano in a bright white room with tall windows — 01

Katya Grineva beside the piano on the stage of the Royal Opera House, red and gold balconies behind her — 02

Katya Grineva in a long arched colonnade in India, holding a sun hat — 03

Katya Grineva in India, standing in a room hung with paintings and filled with sculpture — 04

Katya Grineva in a yellow gown beside a grand piano set on the lawn of a garden in California — 05

Katya Grineva in a yellow gown standing at a Steinway among the hedges of a California garden — 06

Katya Grineva in a yellow gown beside a piano under white garden umbrellas — 07

Katya Grineva in a blue dress at a grand piano in a gallery hall hung with paintings — 08

The stage after a concert, the grand piano standing open and a large floral basket at its right — 09

Carnegie Hall at night from 57th Street, an American flag over the lit red awning and people passing on the sidewalk — 10

Katya Grineva from behind in a black gown, waiting in the backstage doorway that opens onto the Carnegie Hall stage — 11

Katya Grineva framed in the backstage doorway, the lit hall filling the space behind her — 12

Katya Grineva smiling in the backstage doorway, a red flower at the waist of her black gown — 13

Backstage, Katya Grineva laughing with a hand in her hair while a man passes behind her — 14

The Carnegie Hall auditorium from stage level, tiers of lit boxes rising into the dark, Katya Grineva small and in white at the piano — 15

Katya Grineva in a black ball gown standing beside a Steinway grand, the gilt hall warm behind her — 16

Katya Grineva laughing beside the open Steinway in a black gown — 17

Katya Grineva bowing with one hand resting on the piano lid, in a black gown — 18

Katya Grineva walking away down a cream Carnegie Hall corridor in a black gown — 19

Katya Grineva playing in a black gown strapped with red roses, the audience blurred behind her — 20

Katya Grineva in a red gown at the piano, a tall white floral arrangement standing at her right — 21

Katya Grineva in an olive satin gown at the Steinway, seen across the width of the stage — 22

Katya Grineva in a yellow tiered gown beside the Steinway on the Carnegie Hall stage — 23

Katya Grineva in the yellow gown beside the piano, red roses lying across the lid — 24

Katya Grineva leaning down from the stage in a yellow gown to take lilies from a kneeling audience member — 25

Katya Grineva at the stage edge in the yellow gown, taking flowers from the audience while a phone films from the front row — 26

Katya Grineva in a coral gown beside the Steinway, holding a single red rose — 27

Katya Grineva in the yellow gown walking across the empty stage — 28

Katya Grineva in the coral gown at the piano, framed wide against the empty stage — 29

The house seen past the piano, Katya Grineva in the coral gown playing to a full auditorium — 30

Katya Grineva at the piano in a dark gown, bouquets across the lid and a basket of red roses at her right, the audience in silhouette — 31

Katya Grineva in a cream lace dress beside a lit Christmas tree, a marble staircase and statue behind her — 32

Katya Grineva in an ivory tulle gown at a black grand piano in a private room, an oil painting and stained glass behind her — 33

Black and white portrait of Katya Grineva seated at a grand piano, turned toward the camera — 34

Katya Grineva standing by the piano in a dark gown, a cellist playing at her right — 35

Katya Grineva at a grand piano at the front of a church, the congregation in the pews before her — 36

Katya Grineva on an outdoor platform in Times Square while a crew sets up a keyboard, billboards rising behind — 37

Katya Grineva seated at an open grand piano, smiling toward the camera — 38

Three wrapped bouquets of red and yellow flowers resting on the closed Steinway lid — 39

Katya Grineva with a man in a tuxedo and dark glasses, a large black and white orchestra photograph on the wall behind them — 40

Katya Grineva at an open grand piano on a wooden stage, red flowers banked at her right — 41

An early portrait of Katya Grineva at the piano in a black and white halter top — 42

An early portrait of Katya Grineva in a black and red off shoulder dress, leaning on the piano — 43

A grainy sepia portrait of Katya Grineva laughing, her hair long and dark — 44

An early frame, Katya Grineva smiling behind bouquets at the piano — 45