LILYA ZILBERSTEIN - Tartini Piano Master

LUNEDÌ 27 E MARTEDÌ 28 OTTOBRE 2025

• LUNEDÌ 27 10:00-13:00 SALA TARTINI 14:00-17:00 AULA MAGNA
• MARTEDÌ 28 10:00-13:00 SALA TARTINI 14:30-17:30 AULA MAGNA

Lilya Zilberstein got her first taste of international success in 1987 when she won the Busoni Competition in Bolzano. Her victory was a sensation – it took five years until the first prize was even awarded again. By 1988, the Moscow-born pianist was able to perform at big tours abroad in the West. Travelling for her concerts took her to almost all of the European countries, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Canada and Brazil. Lilya Zilberstein started playing the piano at five years old. After twelve years of lessons with Ada Traub at the Gnessin Special Music School in Moscow, she continued studying at the Gnessin Institute under Alexander Satz until she graduated in 1988. In 1985, she won first prize in the Competition of the Russian Federation, and was also one of the prize-winners at the All Union’s Competition in Riga. She emigrated to Germany in 1990. In 1991, Lilya Zilberstein debuted with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Claudio Abbado, which formed the basis of a long-term cooperation. She performed concerts with many famous international orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra in Moscow, the London Symphony and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra della Scala in Milan, the Staatskapelle Dresden, and many others. Alongside Claudio Abbado, she has worked with conductors such as John Axelrod, Paavo Berglund, Semyon Bychkov, Gustavo Dudamel, Christoph Eschenbach, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Alun Francis, Leopold Hager, Dmitrij Kitajenko, James Levine, Vassily Sinaisky, Michael Tilson Thomas, Jean-Pascal Tortelier, Marcello Viotti and Antoni Wit. In August 1998, she was awarded the ”Accademia Musicale Chigiana” prize in Siena. This accolade has been awarded to, among others, Gidon Kremer, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Krystian Zimerman. Lilya Zilberstein has recorded eight CDs for Deutsche Grammophon, including recital programmes, the Grieg Piano Concerto (Järvi, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra) and the Second and Third Piano Concertos by Rachmaninoff (Abbado, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra). She also contributed to the first complete CD recording of the Frédéric Chopin oeuvre, which was released by Deutsche Grammophon in 1999. Recently, several more CDs have been released, including a recording of the Brahms sonata for two pianos with Martha Argerich, released by EMI, and Clementi, Mussorgsky and Rachmaninoff, released by Hänssler Classic. The pianist is a regular guest in the major concert halls and at the most important festivals all over Europe, the USA, Canada, Asia, South America and the Middle East. A few years ago, she played several world tours as the chamber music partner of Maxim Vengerov. With her duo partner Martha Argerich she celebrated her twenty-five-year anniversary on the stage in 2024. Highlights of recent and the coming seasons include concerto performances with the KBS Symphony Orchestra under Pietari Inkinen, with the Orchestra of the Arena di Verona under Eckehard Stier, at the Festival de Mayo in Guadalajara, with the Sinfónica de Minería in Mexico City under Carlos Prieto, and with Orquestra Filarmônica de Minas Gerais under Fabio Mechetti. In Summer 2023, she played Mozart‘s A Major Concerto with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under Daniele Gatti at the „Concerto per l’Italia“ in Siena, which was televised and broadcast worldwide by the RAI. As a chamber musician she toured with Martha Argerich (in Germany, Austria and Switzerland), Tabea Zimmermann (at the Accademia Chigiana and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg), and performed in trio formation with Ilya Gringolts and Antonio Meneses. After a highly acclaimed Heidelberger Frühling debut in a Duo concert with her son Anton Gerzenberg, they will go on an extensive Asia tour in Spring 2025, including Duo and Chamber music recitals in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei and Shanghai and a performance of the Bartók Double Concerto with Taipei Symphony Orchestra under Otto Tausk. At the George Enescu Festival 2024 in Bucharest she played a recital and chaired the Jury of the Piano Competition. Her latest recital tours took her to Mexico, Canada, Australia, Norway, Italy, France, Austria and Germany. Lilya Zilberstein is jury member of important international piano competitions, among them The Cliburn in Fort Worth, Busoni Competition in Bolzano, Enescu Competition and the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels. She devotes a substantial part of her time to the education of young musicians. She gives masterclasses at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena (since 2011) and during her concert travels in universities and conservatories all over the world. From 2009 till 2013, she was Guest Professor at the University of Music and Theatre Hamburg. Since 2014, she is Professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, succeeding Paul Badura-Skoda and Oleg Maisenberg.

Masterclass riservata agli studenti del Master di Secondo Livello, libero accesso in qualità di uditori agli studenti del Conservatorio.

DOCENTI REFERENTI: TERESA TREVISAN e MARCO GAGGINI