Marianna Shirinyan
piano
Marianna Shirinyan is one of the most creative and in sought after pianists in Europe today. She has received Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s prestigious P2 award for her contribution to Danish music life, the critics’ prize from the Association of Danish critics and just recently the Honorary Carl Nielsen award.
Marianna is a frequent guest at international music festivals, among them the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Schwetzinger Festspiele and the Festspillene in Bergen. She has garnered a reputation as a leading pianist of her generation through solo appearances with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Potsdammer Kammerakademie and Göteborg Symphony Orchestra.
One of her later releases, the Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra by Louis Glass which she recorded together with the Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz under the baton of Maestro Daniel Raiskin was awarded the P2 prize of the Danish radio.
Marianna is a professor of piano at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and guest professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, in addition to curating several chamber music festivals across Europe.