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LILIAN AKOPOVA

Lilian Akopova was born in Erevan and grew up in Kiev. She took her first piano lesson at the age of 5, later entering the Lisenko Central Music School for especially gifted children and graduated with honours in 2000.

From 2001 until 2007 she studied at the Munich Hochschule für Musik und Theater with Elisso Virsaladze, and obtained the Meisterklassenpodium. Moreover she took part in masterclasses with Andras Schiff, and Paul Badura-Skoda.

Lilian Akopova is a holder of the Vladimir Spivakov, Vladimir Krainev, Gulbenkian Foundation, Yehudi Menuhin, Live Music Now scholarships.

Lilian Akopova developed a concerting activity in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Romania, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, USA, France, playing in prestigious concert halls (Salle Cortot Paris, Konzerthaus Berlin, Palau de la Musica Valencia, Teatro Bibiena Mantova, Gasteig Munich).

Acclaimed by the audience and the critics, Lilian Akopova appears regularly as a soloist with the State Orchestra of Moscow, with the Klagenfurt Symphony Orchestra, the State Symphony Ochestra of Ukraine, the Haydn Orchestra in Italy, under the direction of Gottfried Schneider, Enrique Garcia Asencio, Arthur Fagen.

Among her chamber music partners are Wen Xiao Zheng, Lena Neudauer, Roman Patkoló. She also collaborates with the actors Peter Simonischek, Wolf Euba. Last festival included concerts at the Classic Young Stars in Berlin, Stavanger Festival – Norway, Saint-Yreix in France and Mozartiade in Augsburg.

Ms. Akopova recorded for the Bayerische Rundfunk, Deutschland Radio Kultur and was broadcast on French, Italian, Ukrainian, radios and televisions. Her first recording, dedicated to Schumann, appeared in 2010 at the label Genuin.