Lilya Zilberstein
Lilya Zilberstein (also: Lilija Silberstein , Russian Лилия Зильберштейн ; born April 19, 1965 in Moscow ) is a Russian pianist who lives in Vienna.
Life
Lilya Zilberstein attended the Moscow Gnessin School from 1971 to 1983 and studied with Ada Traub, then at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow with Alexander Satz until 1990. She became world famous overnight when she won first prize at the 1987 Busoni Competition in Bolzano . After her debut the following year with Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and her first appearance in Munich, she received a contract with Deutsche Grammophon . In 1990 she moved to Germany with her husband and lives near Hamburg. In 1998 she won the Accademia Musicale Chigiana Prize in Siena . In 2003 she returned to Bolzano and was on the jury of the Busoni competition, in 2009 she was president of the Busoni competition.
Lilya Zilberstein appears time and again as a soloist with major orchestras and conductors, since 1991 regularly with the Berlin Philharmonic ; other orchestras: Dresdner Staatskapelle , London Symphony Orchestra , the Czech Philharmonic , the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with conductors such as James Levine , Claudio Abbado and Neeme Järvi .
As a chamber musician, Lilya Zilberstein u. a. Piano duo partner of Martha Argerich and has made recordings of violin sonatas with the violinist Maxim Vengerov and cello sonatas with the cellist Gautier Capuçon .
In the festival summers she had several appearances at the Peninsula Music Festival in Wisconsin , again in 2009, as well as several times at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and Martha Argerich's Music Days in Lugano as well as in many other places.
Above all, however, Lilya Zilberstein gives concerts as a soloist in piano recitals around the world. One of her most important successes was a piano recital in London's Wigmore Hall in June 2009, which attracted a great deal of press coverage in several British daily newspapers.
In addition to her work as a pianist, Lilya Zilberstein teaches a few selected postgraduate pianists. In addition, she gives world-renowned master classes, including a. in the USA, Italy, Taiwan and South Korea, as well as regularly at the London Royal Academy of Music . Zilberstein has been a guest professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater since 2009. In 2015 she was the first woman to take over the chair of piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . Since 2011 she has also taught at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena.
Lilya Zilberstein is married to the trumpeter Alexander Gerzenberg - her sons Daniel (* 1991) and Anton (* 1996), who both won several first prizes at the national competition Jugend musiziert in 2009 , appear as Duo Gerzenberg .
Web links
- Official website
- Works by and about Lilya Zilberstein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Review of June 10, 2009 from THE GUARDIAN, London (English)
- Review of June 10, 2009 from THE INDEPENDENT, London (English)
- Review of June 13, 2009 from THE SUNDAY TIMES, London (English)
- Lylia Zilberstein- Accademia Musicale Chigiana
Individual evidence
- ↑ Petra Schellen: Musical Exile. "I thought birch trees only existed in Russia". The daily newspaper , September 28, 2009, accessed on January 2, 2017 .
- ^ Peninsula Music Festival
- ^ Institute for the piano concert subject. Univ.Prof. Lilya Zilberstein. University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , accessed on January 2, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zilberstein, Lilya |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Silberstein, Lilija; Зильберштейн, Лилия (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |