Irina Lankova

Irina Lankova (born September 11, 1977 in Michurinsk , Soviet Union ) is a Belgian classical concert pianist .

Irina Lankova

education

She was born in Michurinsk to an engineer couple and began playing the piano at the age of seven. She completed her musical education with distinction at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow with Irina Temtschenko, where she also studied with Lev Naumow and Vladimir Tropp. In 1996 she moved to Brussels and continued her studies at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels with Eugène Moguilevsky. She received personal musical instruction from Vitaly Margulis and Wladimir Aschkenasi . After her first year at the Conservatory, she was awarded the “Premier Prix” for piano and then earned diplomas in piano , chamber music , music theory and music education and also studied conducting .

career

In 2008 she was accepted into the pianist elite of the Steinway pianists .

She made several albums that received high praise: Rachmaninoff , Liszt , Scriabin , Chopin and Schubert . Since 2013 Irina Lankova has often played in a duo with the violinist Tatiana Samouil . Together they recorded an album called "Caprice" (Indésens) in 2015.

Irina Lankova has been invited to numerous international festivals: Midi-Minimes Brussels, Festival d ' Enghien , Festival de Silly , Festival Monteverdi Cremona , Piano Folies Touquet , Schiermonnikoog Chamber Music Festival, Belœil , Classissimo, Brussels Summer Festival and Festival de Wallonie in Brussels, Fortissimo in Orléans , Académie d'Eté de Nice (where she has also been giving master classes since 2012 ), Festival of Yuri Bashmet , Berlin Festival and Sagra Musicale Umbria in Perugia . She played in the Wigmore Hall in London (debut in 2008), the Salle Gaveau in Paris (debut in 2014), the Flagey, the Chapelle musicale Reine Élisabeth and La Monnaie in Brussels , the French Cathedral in Berlin , the Cidade das Artes in Rio de Janeiro and St Martin-in-the-Fields in London. As a chamber musician, she plays with musicians such as Michael Guttman, Philippe Graffin, Lorenzo Gatto, Frank Braley, Jeroen Reuling, Pascal Moraguès and Marie Hallynck.

Inspired by other arts and always looking for new ways to present classical music, she develops personal multimedia projects. The first such project, Miroirs Goldberg, took place in 2014 in the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula in Brussels and was also performed in 2015 in the French Cathedral in Berlin.

In 2016 she introduced “Piano Unveiled”, a concept of informal concerts that she comments and that are aimed at the general public, in concert and on YouTube.

Irina Lankova is also a producer of classical concerts, she gives lectures on classical music and makes it popular through various performances and collaborations. She is the artistic director of the international music festival Max van der Linden in Belgium.

Private

Irina Lankova is married to a Belgian architect and has two children (* 2007 and 2009). She has a younger brother (* 1985). She lives in Belgium ( Walloon Brabant province ).

Discography

Sergei Rachmaninow , Franz Liszt (2004, CD): Rachmaninow Preludes Op. 23 , Liszt Rhapsody No. 2 with cadences by Rachmaninoff
Alexander Scriabin (2006, CD): Sonatas No. 2 & No. 9 , Pieces Op. 32, Op. 57
Frédéric Chopin (2008, CD): Sonata No. 3 , Ballade No. 1 , Scherzo No. 2 , Nocturnes
Franz Schubert (2013, CD Indésens): 3 piano pieces D946, piano sonata D959, Impromptu D899 No. 3
“Caprice” (2015, CD Indésens): Fritz Kreisler (Caprice Viennois, Prelude and Allegro, Liebesleid, Liebesfreud, Schön Rosmarin), Camille Saint-Saëns (Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso), Georges Bizet (Carmen, Fantaisie de Concert op. 25 ), Niccolo Paganini / Mario Pilati (Capriccio No. 24), Pjotr Iljitsch Tchaikovsky (meditation in D minor, Scherzo in C minor, melody in E major). With Tatiana Samouil (violin)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Martine D. Mergeay: "La beauté me sauve." In: La Libre Belgique . April 12, 2005.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Free Lunchtime Piano Recital - Irina Lankova ( Memento from February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). St Martin-in-the-Fields , November 30, 2002.
↑ Irina Lankova - Piano Concertist ( Memento from January 2, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). In: L'Académie Internationale d'été de Nice. 2015.
^ Françoyse Krier: Steinway Hall Suisse Romande Lausanne. Irina Lankova fait chanter le piano. In: fykmag (interview).
↑ Biography Irina Lankova. In: onepoint.fm. May 15, 2013.
↑ Irina Lankova plays Schubert. Website of Indésens.
↑ ^a ^b Irina Lankova. Piano. In: Classeek.
^ ^A ^b Philippe Cornet: Bach investit la cathédrale. In: Le Vif. September 26, 2014.
↑ Piano unveiled, narrated concerts by Irina Lanková. ( Memento of January 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Website of Irina Lankova.

personal data
SURNAME	Lankova, Irina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 11, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH	Michurinsk

[lb-1] Martine D. Mergeay: "La beauté me sauve." In: La Libre Belgique . April 12, 2005.

[smf-2] Free Lunchtime Piano Recital - Irina Lankova ( Memento from February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). St Martin-in-the-Fields , November 30, 2002.

[3] Irina Lankova - Piano Concertist ( Memento from January 2, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). In: L'Académie Internationale d'été de Nice. 2015.

[fyk-4] Françoyse Krier: Steinway Hall Suisse Romande Lausanne. Irina Lankova fait chanter le piano. In: fykmag (interview).

[5] Biography Irina Lankova. In: onepoint.fm. May 15, 2013.

[6] Irina Lankova plays Schubert. Website of Indésens.

[classeek-7] Irina Lankova. Piano. In: Classeek.

[vif-8] A ^b Philippe Cornet: Bach investit la cathédrale. In: Le Vif. September 26, 2014.

[9] Piano unveiled, narrated concerts by Irina Lanková. ( Memento of January 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Website of Irina Lankova.