The wife of the famous virtuoso pianist Denis Matsuev is the prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater Yekaterina Shipulina. He and she are folk artists who can be called the pride of the country. Denis and Ekaterina constantly delight fans with their talent and, despite the tight schedule, they always leave time for a family and a joint child. In the theatrical environment, this couple has a reputation as one of the most stable.
Pianist and Ballerina
He is a world-renowned pianist, who for a long time was included among the most enviable Russian bachelors, until a fragile ballerina conquered his heart. Denis Matsuev was always surrounded by music. He is from a musical Irkutsk family: his mother's father Dmitry Gomelsky was a circus musician, mother Irina Dmitrievna taught children to play the piano, and father Leonid Viktorovich Matsuev himself played the piano and wrote music superbly. There were many conductors and pianists in the Matsuev family.
She is a brilliant ballerina who also became the successor of the dynasty. Ekaterina's mother, Lyudmila Shipulina, gave her life to ballet, danced at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater, and her father, Valentin Markov, performed solo here. Katya has a sister, Anya, a twin - the only one in the family who refused ballet, although the girl graduated from a choreographic school. The fate of the future People's Artist Yekaterina Shipulina, one might say, was a foregone conclusion.
From the Urals to Moscow
Katya was born in 1979 in Perm. Parents performed on stage, mother spent a lot of time with students and in the theater. Her daughter didn't relax either. From an early age she was used to conquering peaks, enduring emotional and physical stress, pain that relentlessly pursues ballet dancers. She entered the ballet school in Perm together with her sister, but Anya did not continue her career, and Katya endured everything and decided not to stop there.
In 1994, Shipulina moved to the capital, where she graduated with honors from the choreographic academy and began to conquer the Bolshoi Theater. A year after starting work on the stage, Ekaterina Valentinovna receives her first serious award - the second place in the ballet art competition held in Luxembourg. The ballerina captivates the audience with the skill of reincarnation, the ingenious transmission of the feelings of the stage characters through dance. Since 2018, Ekaterina Shipulina has been named People's Artist of Russia.
New family
The meeting between Denis Matsuev and Ekaterina Shipulina was truly happy, both for connoisseurs of the creativity of two talented people, and for the couple themselves. Spouses do not like to talk about their personal lives, to bring family matters up for public discussion.
It is known that Denis and Catherine met long before the official wedding ceremony. It happened during a social event organized on the occasion of the opening of the restaurant of their mutual friends. Despite the fact that Matsuev and Ekaterina are constantly in public, they managed to put their romance aside in secret for a long time. The pianist and ballerina began to participate in joint creative projects, which were a resounding success; they came together to the Ural festival organized by Denis Leonidovich, timed to coincide with the New Year. The couple have developed traditions that confirm that both are strong people with a hardened character.
What is only the joint winter swimming of a Siberian guy and a Ural girl in Baikal! Other stars of the festival will also plunge into the icy water, delighting the audience with live performances, improvisation and jokes.
The musical family has arrived
The fact that Matsuev and Shipulina started a family, the media representatives learned only in 2016, when the date of birth of their joint daughter Ani was approaching. The girl was born in October. The young father himself told about this happy event in the program "Evening Urgant". As the famous pianist emphasized, he always finds time in his busy schedule for Anna Denisovna.
It is known that Matsuev is a passionate fan of Spartak Moscow, so if a boy was born, he would call him Spartak. Parents are anxious about their daughter, from the first years of life they develop her musical taste, let the baby listen to wonderful classical melodies. According to Denis Leonidovich, the daughter of the great pianist already listens to music selectively, for example, she does not like Liszt's second concert and adores Stravinsky, his Petrushka.
Ballerina, mom, sportswoman and extreme
Prima ballerina Ekaterina Shipulina became a mother without fear and doubt, she had no doubt that she would quickly get into shape and re-enter the stage. Moreover, before the eyes of the Ural girl there was a maternal example: the ballerina of the Perm theater Lyudmila Valentinovna began to dance almost immediately after the birth of her daughters.
It was really easy for Denis Matsuev's wife to get in shape after giving birth, because she leads an extremely active lifestyle. Among Ekaterina Valentinovna's hobbies are tennis, water skiing, fitness, skiing, skating and even football. The latter is one of the hobbies that unites spouses. As a child, Denis was very fond of this sport, especially since he had a grandmother Vera Albertovna Matsueva, who was always fiercely rooting for Spartak.
With such an active and sometimes extreme lifestyle, there is no need to torment yourself with diets, and Ekaterina can afford some of her favorite desserts and dishes, including ice cream and real Uzbek pilaf. According to others, the prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater behaves simply and modestly, does not suffer from star fever.
Neither Matsuev nor Shipulina advertise their personal lives, they answer extremely evasively to all questions from journalists. Denis Leonidovich said that he always hurries home to his beloved wife and daughter. Ekaterina Valentinovna looks really happy next to her husband, and the couple is considered one of the most stable in the theatrical environment. I would like to believe that this wonderful family will exist for a long time and will give its fans a lot of joy, and will arrive in an artistic family.
