Biography
Irina is a multi-faceted artist, whose talents range from concert pianist to chamber musician, from accompanist to musical dramatist.
A graduate in classical piano from Moscow’s prestigious Tchaikovsky Conservatory, she received the “Congratulations of the Jury” for her work as a soloist and chamber musician. At the Conservatoire de Genève, she obtained a post-graduate degree as soloist and chamber musician, With Distinction.
Irina recently performed Chopin’s Concerto No. 1 with the l’Orchestre Symphonique Genevois at Victoria Hall. As a chamber musician, she has played with Estelle Revaz, Maxim Rysanov, Oleg Kaskiv and Sergey Ostrovsky. She has also accompanied Sophie Graf, Hélène Hebrard and will play with Camilla Nylund in 2016.
Irina has won numerous international competitions, her first at age 13 at the Ústí nad Labem in Czechoslovakia. She won the China International Piano Competition at age 16 and the Moscow National Accompanist Competition at 22. At the 2007 Zurich Orpheus Competition, she was awarded a recording contract.
Her repertory is broad, with a fondness for Russian composers such as Prokofiev, Schedrin, Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff. Romantic composers, such as Liszt, Chopin and Schumann are also among her favourites, as are the modern composers Dutilleux, Gubaidulina, Jean-Luc Darbelay and Schedrin.
Irina has performed as a soloist at numerous festivals, including the Schubertiade in Payerne, Switzerland, the Château de Loumarin in Provence and the Festival of Chamber Music in Divonne, France. She has also played at concerts in Sweden, India, Japan, and has recorded three CDs.
In 2008, she joined Trio Arc and has been performing regularly with them at Swiss venues such as Wettingen, Baden, Aarau and Compesières.
Adding to her array of artistic projects, Irina has performed in three “literary concerts” with actor-director Alain Carré’s dramatisation of the tumultuous romantic life of Franz Liszt, and the tormented sombre journeys of Rainer Maria Rilke and Federico Garcia Lorca. Her next project will tell Sergei Rachmaninov’s exile to the USA.
