Piano
Biography:
Irina Emelianseva, pianist and composer, was born in 1973 in Selco/Brjansk (Russia). From 1988 to 92 she completed preliminary piano studies at the music school in her hometown, where she received a prize for the best interpretation of Prokofiev's works. From 1992 to 97 she studied piano with N. Eismont and composition with S. Slonimski at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in St. Petersburg; after that she was an assistant in the composition class of Prof. Slonimski.
From 1996 to 99 she attended international master classes in Germany, Russia and the Ukraine. She played numerous world premieres and Russian premieres, including works by Dittrich, Messiaen, Roslavez, Lutoslawski and Humel, as well as her own works. Irina Emeliantseva sees her task as a pianist in the dissemination of new piano music.
In 1995 Irina Emeliantseva received the ›Gartow Foundation‹ prize for young composers in Germany; 1996 composition prize at the ›Sound Ways‹ festival in St. Petersburg; 1999-2001 followed a DAAD research grant to study with Paul-Heinz Dittrich at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin; In 2000 she received a scholarship from the Berlin Senate at the Rheinsberg Music Academy; 2002-03 she studied composition with Hanspeter Kyburz in Berlin and with Ernst Helmuth Flammer in Dresden; In 2002-03 she received a NaFöG grant (Berlin Graduate Funding) from the Berlin University of the Arts and in 2002 a working grant at the Lukas Artists' House in Ahrenshoop; In 2004 she completed postgraduate studies in composition with Ernst Helmuth Flammer at the Carl Maria von Weber University in Dresden, where she received a scholarship in 2005; In 2007 she received a grant from the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture at the Künstlerhof Schreyahn.
Irina Emeliantseva has received composition commissions from the Berlin Senate Department for Science, Research and Culture and from the young.euro.classic festival. at the European Music Summer in Berlin.
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