Elisaveta Blumina
Pianist Elisaveta Blumina was trained in the Russian tradition but moved to Germany at age 19 and has been active as a soloist and chamber musician. She is also a visual artist.
Blumina was born on July 13, 1976, in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), then part of the Soviet Union. Her mother was a concert pianist and a professor of piano and chamber music, and her father, an engineer in the Soviet space program, also loved music and had many records and scores. Blumina dreamed of a career as a prima ballerina and also took art classes as a teen, but she grew up among her mother's chamber music students, who would use spaces in the family home as practice rooms. Blumina attended a youth program at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and was admitted to the Conservatory itself despite some anxious moments in an exam that dealt with Marxism-Leninism. Her teachers there were T.L. Fidler in chamber music and S.B. Vakman in lied accompaniment. She also began solo piano studies with Natalia Trull, but Blumina's plans changed when Trull moved to Moscow, and at the same time, she won a scholarship for studies in Hamburg, Germany, with pianist Evgeni Koroliov. So Blumina arrived in Hamburg alone, at 19, speaking no German. When she told Koroliov she was homesick, he dourly replied, "Go practice." However, she stayed on in Hamburg, and things soon improved as she attracted top-flight teachers, including András Schiff, Radu Lupu, and Bruno Canino. In 2007, she made her recording debut on the Oehms Classics label, backing cellist Ramon Jaffé on an album of music by Ignaz Moscheles.
Fluent in several languages, Blumina has appeared with top orchestras, maintaining ties in Russia as well as touring in the West. She has performed as a soloist with the Dresden Philharmonic, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, among other groups, and she has appeared at such top venues as the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Carnegie Hall in New York. the Philharmonie and Konzerthaus in Berlin, and the Beethovenhalle in Bonn. She has made some 30 albums, and she was one of the first pianists to perform the keyboard music of composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg in the West. She is also associated with the music of jazz-classical fusion composer Nikolay Kapustin. An enthusiastic chamber player, Blumina founded her own Ensemble Blumina trio. Blumina has mostly recorded for German labels, including CPO, Genuin, and MDG, and in the 2020s, Capriccio Records, where she appeared in 2023 on the album Gija Kancheli: A Little Daneliade; Valse Boston with the Robert Schumann Philharmonie. She has remained active as an artist, and her paintings have been shown in such cities as Nice, Boston, and Tel Aviv. Blumina has taught at the Hamburg Academy of Music and Theatre, the Kronberg Academy, and several other schools, and she is in demand for master classes.
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Ustvolskaya, Silvestrov & Kancheli: Works for Piano & Orchestra
Elisaveta Blumina, Jürgen Spitschka, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Thomas Sanderling
Classical - Released by Grand Piano on 9 Sep 2016
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Kancheli: A Little Daneliade, Valse Boston, 18 Miniatures & Largo & Allegro
Elisaveta Blumina, Hartmut Schill, Robert Schumann
Classical - Released by Capriccio on 3 Nov 2023
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Weinberg: Piano Sonatas, Opp. 8, 49bis & 56
Classical - Released by CPO on 8 Jun 2018
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Moscheles, I.: Cello Sonata, Op. 121 / Melodic-Contrapuntal Studies
Ramon Jaffe, Elisaveta Blumina
Chamber Music - Released by Oehms Classics on 1 Jan 2003
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Weinberg: Flute Concertos & Other Works
Claudia Stein, Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestra, Elisaveta Blumina, David Robert Coleman
Classical - Released by Naxos on 25 Oct 2019
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Saxophone Chamber Music
Elisaveta Blumina, Peter Bruns, clair-obscur Saxophonquartett, Christoph Enzel
Chamber Music - Released by Capriccio on 7 Feb 2020
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Memories from Home
Classical - Released by Dreyer Gaido on 17 Jan 2020
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Oeuvres pour piano
Classical - Released by Grand Piano on 1 Apr 2013
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Frid: Piano Works
Emanuel Sint, Elisaveta Blumina
Classical - Released by Grand Piano on 11 Jun 2021
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Weinberg: Piano Quintet, Op. 18 (Arr. M. Baier for Orchestra) & Children's Notebook
Elisaveta Blumina, Ingolstadt Georgian Chamber Orchestra, Ruben Gazarian
Classical - Released by CapriccioNR on 2 Oct 2020
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In Search of the Miraculous
The Hilliard Ensemble, EQ Ensemble, Elisaveta Blumina
Classical - Released by Louth Contemporary Music on 11 Mar 2013
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Weinberg: Piano Quintet, Op. 18 & Children’s Notebook No. 3, Op. 23
Elisaveta Blumina, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Shanshan Yao, Máté Szűcs, Bruno Delepelaire
Classical - Released by Oehms Classics on 16 Apr 2021
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Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Sinfonie No. 6, Op. 79
Konzertchor Rutheneum, Philharmonisches Orchester Altenburg Gera, Elisaveta Blumina, Laurent Wagner
Classical - Released by Rondeau Production on 18 Sep 2020
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Irish Holidays
John Finucane, Elisaveta Blumina
Chamber Music - Released by Genuin on 30 Mar 2018
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Weinberg: Piano Trio - Violin Sonatina - Double Bass Sonata
Kolja Blacher, Erez Ofer, Nabil Shehata, Johannes Moser, Elisaveta Blumina
Chamber Music - Released by CPO on 1 Apr 2014
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Weinberg: Children's Notebooks / Piano Sonata No. 1
Classical - Released by CPO on 22 Feb 2011
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Frid: Phädra, Op. 78 & Piano Quintet, Op. 72
Elisaveta Blumina, Vogler Quartett
Chamber Music - Released by CapriccioNR on 5 Feb 2021
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French Holidays
John Finucane, Elisaveta Blumina
Chamber Music - Released by Genuin on 3 Feb 2017
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La flûte enchantée
Hans-Udo Heinzmann, Elisaveta Blumina
Chamber Music - Released by Genuin on 2 Sep 2014
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Fagotto & pianoforte
Meszaros Gabor, Elisaveta Blumina
Classical - Released by La Bottega Discantica on 8 Mar 2002
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