2024 Competition Jury
Lilya Zilberstein
Germany
Lilya Zilberstein is a Russian-born, world-renowned pianist. She began playing the piano at the age of five. Following twelve years of lessons with Ada Traub at the Gnessin school of music in Moscow, she went on to study with Alexander Satz at the Gnessin Institute, taking her final exam in 1988. In 1985 she had already won the first prize in the competition of the Russian Federation and was also among the prize-winners at the All-Union’s Competition in Riga. Lilya Zilberstein lived in Germany since 1990 and has performed in the country’s finest concert halls, in the most important festivals, and with the most famous orchestras. In 2014 she became the first woman to chair the classical piano department at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
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Lilya Zilberstein
Germany
Lilya Zilberstein is a Russian-born, world-renowned pianist. She began playing the piano at the age of five. Following twelve years of lessons with Ada Traub at the Gnessin school of music in Moscow, she went on to study with Alexander Satz at the Gnessin Institute, taking her final exam in 1988. In 1985 she had already won the first prize in the competition of the Russian Federation and was also among the prize-winners at the All-Union’s Competition in Riga. Lilya Zilberstein lived in Germany since 1990 and has performed in the country’s finest concert halls, in the most important festivals, and with the most famous orchestras. In 2014 she became the first woman to chair the classical piano department at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
lilyazilberstein.com
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100058055802339
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