Ekaterina Novitskaya (married name Hervy; born 24 October 1952) is a Soviet and Belgian pianist. She was born in Moscow, in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, and is the daughter of Georgy Novitsky, dean of the Faculty of History at Moscow State University.
She studied at the Central Music School and subsequently at the Moscow Conservatory, where her teachers were Evgeny Timakin and Lev Oborin. In 1968, she won the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, one of the world's most prestigious piano competitions. Although the competition was normally open only to performers aged seventeen and above, its organizers made an exception for her; she became the first female laureate in the competition's seventeen-year history.
In 1978, Novitskaya married the Belgian pianist François-Emmanuel Hervy, whom she had met ten years earlier during the Brussels competition. They have five children. She lives in Mons and continues to tour extensively. Her New York debut took place in 1985.
In 1996, Mstislav Rostropovich organized Novitskaya's first tour of Russia since her emigration. She performed works by Mozart, Chopin, and Debussy at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, with further appearances in St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Her recordings notably include interpretations of Sergei Prokofiev; he was the focus of her recital disc in Melodiya's Classical Music Masterpieces series.