Lisa Smirnova

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The Austrian pianist Lisa Smirnova (2017)

Lisa Smirnova (born August 6, 1972 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) is an Austrian pianist of Russian origin.

Life

Smirnova received her first piano lessons from Anna Pawlowna Kantor at the Gnessin Special Music School in Moscow, before she was accepted into Lev Naumov's class at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 1990. In 1991 she continued her studies at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling , which she graduated with honors in 1998. She also deepened her studies with Maria Curcio and Robert Levin in London.

Her international career began with her debut at Carnegie Hall in 1992. Since then she has performed in Europe, Asia and North and South America and was a. a. to be heard in the Suntory Hall Tokyo, the Wigmore Hall London, the Musikverein Wien , the Konzerthaus Wien , the Concertgebouw Amsterdam or the Sala Verdi Milan. She is a regular guest at renowned music festivals such as the Lucerne Festival , the Salzburg Festival , the Salzburg Mozart Week , the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Styriarte Graz. Radio recordings were made on ORF, BR, NDR, SDR, WDR as well as on BBC, NPR and Radio France. Her recordings have been awarded numerous prizes.

Smirnova played under well-known conductors such as Ivor Bolton , Andrey Boreyko , Manfred Honeck , Carlos Kalmar , Lev Markiz, Andres Mustonen and John Storgårds and with orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, the Jena Philharmonie, the Staatsorchester Halle and the Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt, the Württemberg Philharmonic , the Salzburg Chamber Soloists, the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich , the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Beethoven Academy Antwerp, the Tallinn Sinfonietta, the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, the Belgrade Philharmonic, the Wroclaw Philharmonic W. Lutoslawski, the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, or the Illinois Philharmonic. Chamber music partners were u. a. Benjamin Schmid , Clemens Hagen , Sergei Nakariakov , Dmitri Sitkowetski , Antje Weithaas , Thomas Zehetmair as well as the members of the Astor Piazzolla New Tango Quintet, the Belcanto Strings string trio, the wind soloists of the Berlin Philharmonic or the Leipzig String Quartet.

As part of her commitment to new music, she realized numerous world premieres of works by important contemporary composers such as Giya Kancheli , Friedrich Gulda , Rodion Schtschedrin , Valentin Silvestrov , Wolfgang Rihm , Maxim Seloujanov and Minas Borboudakis.

In 2007 she founded the New Classic Ensemble Vienna, to which the musicians Benjamin Ziervogel (violin), Werner Neugebauer (violin), Firmian Lermer (viola), Detlef Mielke (cello) and Herwig Neugebauer (double bass) belong. The main focus of the repertoire is on performances of baroque and classical piano concertos with soloists. Furthermore, from 2007 to 2012 she was the artistic director of the Nagasaki-Ojika Music Festival in Japan.

In addition to her concert activities, Smirnova devotes herself to music education and the promotion of young musicians. Between 2002 and 2015 she held annual master classes in Germany, Austria and Japan. As an assistant to Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling's class, she was given a teaching position at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg in 2007 and until 2009 also taught students at the Leopold Mozart Institute for the Promotion of the Gifted. From 2010 to 2015 she was Artistic Director of the Razumovsky Music Academy in Vienna, which she founded and which promotes musically gifted children and young people. In 2016 she accepted the call to the Robert Schumann University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf , where she holds a professorship for piano and is the managing director of the Schumann Junior training center.

Smirnova's programmatic focus is on the works of the Baroque and Viennese Classics. She is also interested in innovative, cross-genre projects and unconventional concert formats.

Prizes and awards

  • 2012: Instrumental Choice of BBC Music Magazin for the recording of Handel's "The Eight Great Suites"
  • 2005: Diapason 5 for the recording of JS Bach's Six Sonatas and Partitas with Benjamin Schmid (violin) with the piano accompaniment by R. Schumann
  • 1997: Editor's Choice of SoundScapes Magazine Australia for the recording of N. Paganini's 24 Caprices for violin with piano accompaniment by R. Schumann (with Benjamin Schmid, violin)
  • 1993: Brahms Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival
  • 1993: Concours Haydn-Schubert de Sarrebourg
  • 1992: International Piano Competition Cologne - Tomassoni Foundation
  • 1992: Missouri International Piano Competition
  • 1991: Citta di Marsala

Discography

  • L. van Beethoven: Sonata no. 32 op. 111, Prokofiev: Sonata no. 8 op. 84 (live at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam), Paladino Music 2016
  • D. Shostakovich: Preludes; Prokofiev: Visions Fugitives; Weill: 7 Pieces from the “Threepenny Opera” (with Benjamin Schmid, violin), Ondine 2015
  • GF Handel: The Eight Great Suites, ECM New Series 2011/2012
  • JS Bach: Six Sonatas & Partitas for Violin with Piano accompaniment by Robert Schumann (with Benjamin Schmid, violin), 1995/2010 MDG, World Premiere Recording
  • "One lives but ones" Waltzes for Piano Solo, Waltzes by Chopin, Schubert, Strauss / Tausig, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Ravel, Satie, Oehms Classics 2003
  • "Piéces de Concert", Concert & Encore Pieces by Milhaud, Ravel, Brahms, Saint-Saëns, Bazzini, Tchaikovsky (with Benjamin Schmid, violin), Oehms Classics 2003
  • E. Bloch: Suite Hebraique, Complete Works for Viola and Piano (with Daniel Raiskin, Viola), BMG / Arte Nova Classics 2003
  • “Oblivion” - Tangos by Astor Piazzolla, (with the Okoun Ensemble), BMC 2001
  • J. Haydn: Piano Concertos, Hob.XVIII: 3, XVIII: 4, XVIII: 11, (with the Sinfonia Varsovia and V. Schmidt-Gertenbach) BMG / Arte Nova Classics 1997
  • L. van Beethoven, Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 (with the Jena Philharmonic and David Montgomery) BMG / Arte Nova Classics 1996
  • N. Paganini, 24 Caprices for Violin with Piano Accompaniment by Robert Schumann (with Benjamin Schmid, violin), MDG Gold 1996
  • WA Mozart, Sonatas KV 19d, 123a, 186c, 497 for four hands (with Christian Hornef), BMG / Arte Nova Classics 1995

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage of the artist - Biography , accessed on January 8, 2017.
  2. ↑ Homepage of the artist - Biography , accessed on January 8, 2017.
  3. ↑ Press release of the Kreuth Music Festival , accessed on January 8, 2017.
  4. ^ Razumovsky Music Academy Vienna , accessed on January 8, 2017.
  5. ^ Robert Schumann Musikhochschule Düsseldorf , accessed on January 8, 2017.
  6. ↑ ecm records ( memento of November 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 8, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Smirnova, Lisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pianist of Russian origin
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Soviet Union