Piano
Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter has won the admiration of audiences worldwide with performances that combine passion, sensitivity, and effortless technique. In January 2006, she was named recipient of the 2006 Gilmore Artist Award, only the fifth pianist to be so honored. The award recognizes an exceptional pianist who, regardless of age or nationality, possesses broad and profound musicianship and charisma, and who desires and can sustain a career as a major international concert artist.
Ms. Fliter made her American orchestra debut with the Atlanta Symphony that same month. Since then she has appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the San Francisco, St. Louis, Toronto, Detroit, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Indianapolis, and Seattle symphonies, among others, as well as at the Mostly Mozart, Grant Park, Aspen, Ravinia, and Blossom festivals. Equally busy as a recitalist, Ms. Fliter recently performed at Zankel Hall in Carnegie Hall, Chicago's Orchestra Hall, and in similar venues in Boston, San Francisco, Vancouver, Detroit, and Baltimore.
Ms. Fliter has performed with orchestras and in recital in Amsterdam, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Salzburg, Cologne, St. Petersburg, and Berlin, and has participated in festivals including La Roque D'Antheron, Prague Autumn, and the World Pianist Series in Tokyo. Recent engagements abroad have included appearances with the Rotterdam, Stockholm, Israel, and Royal Liverpool philharmonics, the BBC Symphony, the Philharmonia in London, and the Sydney Symphony; and recitals in Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Tokyo, Sydney, and London.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1973, Ms. Fliter began her piano studies in Argentina with Elizabeth Westerkamp. In 1992 she moved to Europe, where she continued her studies at the Freiburg Musikhochschule fur Musik with Vitaly Margulis, in Rome with Carlos Bruno, and with Franco Scala and Boris Petrushansky at the Academy "Incontrui col Maestro" in Imola, Italy. She has also participated in masterclasses with Leon Fleisher, Alexander Lonquich, Louis Lortie, and Vladimir Bakk.
Ms. Fliter began playing public recitals at the age 11 and made her professional orchestra debut at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires five years later. Already the winner of several Argentine competitions, she went on to win prizes at the Cantu International Competition and the Ferruccio Busoni Competition in Italy. In 2000 she was awarded the silver medal at the Frederic Chopin Competition in Warsaw.
An exclusive EMI recording artist, Ms. Fliter released her first CD, an all-Chopin disc, in April 2008, followed by a recording of the complete Chopin Waltzes in the fall of 2009. Her most recent recording, an all-Beethoven CD, was released in June 2011. Live recordings of Ms. Fliter performing works by Beethoven and Chopin at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam as well as a DVD of a recital at the Miami International Piano Festival are available on the VAI Audio label.