Elisaveta Blumina: Concert Pianist, Conductor, Multitalented Artist, Organizer, and Artistic Director...
Elisaveta Blumina studied piano and conducting at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Prof. Ilya Musin. She later transferred to the Hamburg University of Music and the Conservatory in Bern to complete her concert exam with Andras Schiff. As a piano soloist and chamber musician, Elisaveta Blumina is a welcome guest in Carnegie Hall in New York, the Elbphilharmonie and Hamburg's Laeiszhalle, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Gasteig in Munich, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Beethovenhalle Bonn, and the National Concert Hall in Dublin, as well as at festivals like Verbier, Colmar, Lockenhaus, and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival. As a pianist, she regularly performs with major orchestras, including the Dresden Philharmonic, Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Staatskapelle Halle, the RTE Orchestra in Dublin, as well as the Moscow Virtuosi, with conductors such as Vladimir Jurowski, Yuri Temirkanov, Oliver Weder, Gabriel Bebeselea, Vladimir Spivakov, and Thomas Sanderling. The list of her chamber music partners reads like the “who’s who” of the classical world. Elisaveta Blumina's almost 40 CDs are recognized as exceptional achievements, not only in the professional world but also awarded prizes such as the "ECHO" and "Opus Klassik," as well as being nominated for the German Record Critics' Prize. Elisaveta Blumina is one of the most-listened-to musicians on Spotify and other social networks. Her CD recordings reach more than 500,000 listeners each month. Her love for chamber music led her early on to conduct larger chamber ensembles as well. She gained her first conducting experience with the chamber orchestra of the "Tzfat Music Festival" in Israel and the string ensemble of the Saxon State Orchestra at the International Shostakovich Days in Gohrisch. Conducting from the piano, she performed with the Staatskapelle Halle, Robert Schumann Philharmonie Chemnitz, Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt (BSOF), and the National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin. In Drogheda, Ireland, she played and conducted a world premiere by New York composer John Zorn. The invitation from the Robert Schumann Philharmonic to lead a CD recording in Chemnitz in 2021 strengthened Elisaveta Blumina's desire to conduct more in the future. Her mentors Vitali Alekseenok, Vladimir Jurowski, and Catherine Larsen-Maquire have been very supportive in this. In the coming seasons, she will conduct the Brandenburg State Orchestra, the Robert Schumann Philharmonie, as well as several chamber orchestras and ensembles. With the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, she will conduct her educational project "Farbenspiele." Other concerts on her schedule include the Johannesburg Philharmonic and Kwa Zulu Natal Philharmonic in Durban. Elisaveta Blumina speaks six languages fluently; she is also a synesthete: she sees sounds in colors (and vice versa). She often paints pictures during the process of studying new (musical) works. These pictures can then be exhibited or projected in concerts. Another talent, namely dancing, also belongs to Elisaveta Blumina's spectrum of expression. In her childhood, she attended the Vaganova Ballet Academy but ultimately chose to study music due to her projected height. For an education project with the Brandenburg State Orchestra, she choreographed some pieces for the participating school classes, and these choreographies were then performed on stage by the children while she conducted the BSOF.

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For Elisaveta Blumina, it is an important goal to fill concert halls with young people, to make audiences younger and more diverse. A crucial part of Elisaveta's work is promoting young musicians. She initiated the association "Berliner Entdeckungen" to support highly gifted children and founded the "Young Ensemble of the Hamburg International Chamber Music Festival." As artistic director of the Hamburg Chamber Music Festival (since 2011), she brings international competition prizewinners together to make music with the Orchestra Academy of the Staatskapelle Berlin and both major Berlin music universities. Upcoming concerts with the ensemble include performances in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg under Elisaveta Blumina's direction.

Antonin Dvorak:
Serenade d-minor for 9 winds, cello and bass op.44

George Gershwin:
"Scenes from Porgy and Bess" for 9 winds, cello and bass (arr. Mathias Baier)