She won the Busoni competition in 1992 and has been a piano Professor al the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano since 2013.
Kravtchenko began learning piano at age five; she recalls "the great joy of being able to construct a phrase in a certain way and discovering unique sounds".
Geoffrey Norris of The Telegraph said she played it "in a way that thoroughly warmed the heart and thrilled the senses", and explained: She incorporated Chopin's decorative writing into a vision of the concerto that had cohesion, vitality and fluency.
The poetic reverie of the slow movement was set against the glistening roulades of the outer ones in a performance that, with justification, showed complete confidence in what it wanted to say, and knew how to express it eloquently.
[2] Since 2013, she has taught piano at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, in the Italian-speaking Swiss canton of Ticino.