Natasha Meadow Aka Nataliya Medvedovskaya is an award-winning composer, concert pianist, and songwriter, whose compositions are hailed as "significant, amazing, dramatic" (Los Angeles Times). A graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Russia, with a double major in composition and piano performance, she moved to New York City in 2003. She won First Prize at the 1995 International Composers’ Competition of the Gartow Foundation (St. Petersburg, Russia); Second Prize as a composer at the International Competition "Golden Channukia"(Berlin, 2005); "Best Classical Composition" and “Best Instrumentalist” from Indie Music Channel (Hollywood, 2015); Honorable Mention in the 14th Billboard Song Contest; Honorable Mention in the 2007 "Song of the Year" International Song Contest; Honorable Mention in the 11th Unisong International Song Contest; Honor Award at the 2006 Great American Song Contest; and Honorable Award at the "Young Virtuosi" International Piano Competition (Chechia, 1989). Her commissioned compositions have been performed in many festivals, including the "Wall to Wall behind the Wall" International Festival at Symphony Space (New York, 2010); at the Chamber Music America Conference (New York, 2007); Albuquerque Music Festival (NM, 2007); International Clarinet Convention (GA, 2006); Mohawk Trial Concerts (MA, 2006); and Summer Mountain Festival (2005). She had a World Premiere of her 2-hour length orchestral ballet based on the "Adventures of Nils" fairytale (Maryland, 2014). Her String Quartet # 1 was performed in Merkin Hall, Yale University, was broadcast by WQXR internationally and honorably acclaimed in the "Washington Post", "LA Times"," St. Paul Edition", "Kalamazoo Gazette", "Charleston Daily Mail", and others. Her piano performances were favorably reviewed at www.nyconcertreview.com and in New York Stringer Magazine. She played a piano part of 21 Rachmaninoff songs for mezzo-soprano and piano on a Mapleshade Records CD-release of (2006). She has been giving concerts in Weill Recital Hall, Symphony Space, Bargemusic, Bechstein Pianos, Liederkranz Concert Hall, Di Menna Center, and other venues. Natasha is also a poet and cartoonist. Her cartoon is featured on the CD-cover of the "Joke" beautifully designed by Jan Sileo.