Natalia Trull was born in St. Petersburg, where she began her piano studies at the Leningrad Conservatory under T. Rumshievich. In 1974, she continued her training at the Moscow State Conservatory, studying with Yakov Zak and Mikhail Voskresensky, later perfecting her artistry at the Leningrad Conservatory under Professor T. Kravchenko.

She is a laureate of numerous international competitions, including First Prize at the Belgrade International Piano Competition (1981), Second Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1986), and the Grand Prix at the Monte Carlo International Competition (1993).

Trull began her distinguished teaching career in 1981 as assistant to T. Kravchenko at the Leningrad Conservatory, later becoming a full professor. In 1988, she joined the Moscow State Conservatory as assistant to Mikhail Voskresensky, where she was appointed Associate Professor in 1995 and promoted to Professor of Piano in 2004. Since 2007, she has also taught at the elite Special Piano Department under Vera Gornostaeva.

As a soloist, she has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, and Monte Carlo Symphony Orchestra, as well as all major Russian orchestras. She has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos, Raymond Leppard, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Eri Klas, Vasily Sinaisky, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Fedoseyev, and others.

Her repertoire spans more than fifty concertos, with Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor a particular hallmark—performed over one hundred times worldwide, including celebrated appearances at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Eri Klas and at Tokyo’s Suntory Hall with the Tokyo Philharmonic under Kazuhira Koizumi.