Elisaveta Blumina
Dublin based Pianist Elisaveta Blumina has established herself across Europe as an eminent soloist, enthusiastic teacher, and chamber musician of exceptional quality.
Born in St. Petersburg, Ms. Blumina began studying piano at the Conservatoire “Rimsky-Korsakov”. She made her highly acclaimed solo debut at the age of sixteen with the first piano concerto by Brahms, accompanied by the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra directed by Alexander Polyanichko. Aged 19 she came to Hamburg and began to study at the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg, and later at the Conservatoire in Berne. Among her teachers are Mara Mednik, Evgeni Koroliov, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, András Schiff and Bruno Canino. She took master classes with the Alban Berg Quartett, Radu Lupu, Ivry Gitlis and Paul Badura Skoda.
A very important figure for her personal and musical development has been Boris Pergamenshikov, who also invited her to perform in concerts of the “European Chamber Music Association”. Ms. Blumina has won the International Brahms Piano Competition and numerous other international piano competitions in Russia, Germany, Italy and Belgium.
The pianist has raised her profile at many festivals, including the Schleswig-Holstein, the Carinthian Summer, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Campos de Jordao, Verbier and Colmar festivals. She has performed in some of the world’s major concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Laeisz-Halle in Hamburg, the Carnegie Recital Hall in New York, the Beethovenhalle in Bonn and the Conservatoire in Milan. Ms. Blumina has been guest soloist with the Dresden Philharmonic, the Moscow Virtuosi, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Hamburg Philharmonic, the Philharmonc of Bonn, the Romanian State Orchestra, the Symphonic Orchestra of St. Petersburg, the Halle Philharmonic and others. She performed with conductors such as Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Spivakov, Gerd Albrecht, Andrey Boreyko and Daniel Raiskin. Various CD recordings illustrate her broad repertoire and have been well received internationally.
Elisaveta Blumina is a member of the “European Chamber Music Association”, and works regularly with the “Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben”. Her chamber music partners include Pierre Amoyal, Daniel Hope, the Artemis Quartett, the Vogler Quartett, Hans-Udo Heinzmann, Eduard Brunner and Dmitri Makhtin. In 2008 she has founded the “Ensemble Blumina”, together with Paulus van der Merwe (oboe) and Mathias Baier (bassoon).
Critics have mentioned her talent for contemporary music, by composers such as Valentin Silvestrov, Alfred Schnittke and Arvo Paert. For the Naxos label she is scheduled to record piano pieces by Alexander Knaifel, Valentin Silvestrov and the complete works for piano by Galina Usvolskaya. Elisaveta Blumina is currently recording a CD with piano music by Mieczyslaw Weinberg.