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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Artistas semelhantes
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Ustvolskaya, Silvestrov & Kancheli: Works for Piano & Orchestra
Elisaveta Blumina, Jürgen Spitschka, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Thomas Sanderling
Classical - Lançado por Grand Piano em 09/09/2016
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Kancheli: A Little Daneliade, Valse Boston, 18 Miniatures & Largo & Allegro
Elisaveta Blumina, Hartmut Schill, Robert Schumann
Classical - Lançado por Capriccio em 03/11/2023
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Weinberg: Piano Sonatas, Opp. 8, 49bis & 56
Classical - Lançado por CPO em 08/06/2018
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Moscheles, I.: Cello Sonata, Op. 121 / Melodic-Contrapuntal Studies
Ramon Jaffe, Elisaveta Blumina
Chamber Music - Lançado por Oehms Classics em 01/01/2003
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Weinberg: Flute Concertos & Other Works
Claudia Stein, Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestra, Elisaveta Blumina, David Robert Coleman
Classical - Lançado por Naxos em 25/10/2019
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Saxophone Chamber Music
Elisaveta Blumina, Peter Bruns, clair-obscur Saxophonquartett, Christoph Enzel
Chamber Music - Lançado por Capriccio em 07/02/2020
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Memories from Home
Classical - Lançado por Dreyer Gaido em 17/01/2020
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Oeuvres pour piano
Classical - Lançado por Grand Piano em 01/04/2013
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Frid: Piano Works
Emanuel Sint, Elisaveta Blumina
Classical - Lançado por Grand Piano em 11/06/2021
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Quiet Piano
Classical - Lançado por Naxos Japan em 19/03/2021
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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 - Lançado por CapriccioNR em 02/10/2020
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In Search of the Miraculous
The Hilliard Ensemble, EQ Ensemble, Elisaveta Blumina
Classical - Lançado por Louth Contemporary Music em 11/03/2013
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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 - Lançado por Oehms Classics em 16/04/2021
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Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Sinfonie No. 6, Op. 79
Konzertchor Rutheneum, Philharmonisches Orchester Altenburg Gera, Elisaveta Blumina, Laurent Wagner
Classical - Lançado por Rondeau Production em 18/09/2020
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Irish Holidays
John Finucane, Elisaveta Blumina
Chamber Music - Lançado por Genuin em 30/03/2018
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Weinberg: Piano Trio - Violin Sonatina - Double Bass Sonata
Kolja Blacher, Erez Ofer, Nabil Shehata, Johannes Moser, Elisaveta Blumina
Chamber Music - Lançado por CPO em 01/04/2014
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Weinberg: Children's Notebooks / Piano Sonata No. 1
Classical - Lançado por CPO em 22/02/2011
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Frid: Phädra, Op. 78 & Piano Quintet, Op. 72
Elisaveta Blumina, Vogler Quartett
Chamber Music - Lançado por CapriccioNR em 05/02/2021
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French Holidays
John Finucane, Elisaveta Blumina
Chamber Music - Lançado por Genuin em 03/02/2017
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La flûte enchantée
Hans-Udo Heinzmann, Elisaveta Blumina
Chamber Music - Lançado por Genuin em 02/09/2014
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Fagotto & pianoforte
Meszaros Gabor, Elisaveta Blumina
Classical - Lançado por La Bottega Discantica em 08/03/2002
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