Lilya Zilberstein

Lilya Zilberstein (also: Liliya Silberstein, Russian Лилия Зильберштейн; born April 19, 1965 in Moscow) is a Russian pianist, who lives in Hamburg.

Life

Lilya Zilberstein attended from 1971 to 1983, the Moscow Gnessins school and studied with Ada Traub, then at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow with Alexander Satz until 1990. They became world- famous overnight when she in 1987 won the first prize at the International Piano Competition Ferruccio Busoni in Bolzano. After her debut in the following year at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and her first appearance in Munich, she was awarded a contract with Deutsche Grammophon. In 1990 she moved with her husband to Germany and lives near Hamburg. In 1998, she won the prize of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. In 2003 she returned to Bolzano back and was in the jury of the Busoni Competition, in 2009 she is president of the Busoni Competition.

Lilya Zilberstein occurs repeatedly as a soloist with major orchestras and conductors, as since 1991 regularly with the Berlin Philharmonic; further Orchestra: Dresden 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 has inter alia Klavierduopartnerin by Martha Argerich and has provided recordings of violin sonatas with violinist Maxim Vengerov and cello sonatas with cellist Gautier Capuçon.

In the festival summers she had multiple appearances at the Peninsula Music Festival in Wisconsin, so again in 2009, as well as several times in the Schleswig -Holstein Music Festival and the Music Festival by Martha Argerich in Lugano and in many other places.

But above all, as a soloist in concert Lilya Zilberstein piano evenings around the globe. Among her most significant achievements included a piano recital at London's Wigmore Hall in June 2009, which drew a large press coverage in several British newspapers after themselves.

Besides her work as a pianist Lilya Zilberstein teaches a few select postgraduate pianists. Furthermore, they are world-renowned master classes, including in the USA, Italy, Taiwan and South Korea, as well as regularly at the London Royal Academy of Music. Since 2009, Zilberstein guest professor at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg.

Lilya Zilberstein is married with trumpeter Alexander Gerzenberg - their sons Daniel (* 1991) and Anton (* 1996 ), both in the professional piano duo and chamber music have won several first prizes at the National Competition Young Musicians 2009, will come as a duo Gerzenberg.