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Biography:
Irina Emeliantseva, pianist and composer, was born in Selco/Bryansk (Russia) in 1973. From 1988 to 1992, she completed preliminary studies in piano at the music school in her hometown, where she received an award for the best interpretation of Prokofiev's works. From 1992 to 1997, she studied piano with N. Eismont and composition with S. Slonimski at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in St. Petersburg, after which she became an assistant in Prof. Slonimski's composition class.
From 1996 to 1999, she attended international master classes in Germany, Russia and Ukraine. She has played numerous world premieres and Russian premieres, including works by Dittrich, Messiaen, Roslawez, Lutoslawski and Humel, as well as her own compositions. Irina Emeliantseva sees her role as a pianist as promoting new piano music.
In 1995, Irina Emeliantseva received the Gartow Foundation Prize for young composers in Germany; in 1996, she won the composition prize at the Sound Ways Festival in St. Petersburg; from 1999 to 2001, she received a DAAD research scholarship to study with Paul-Heinz Dittrich at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin; In 2000, she was a scholarship holder of the Berlin Senate at the Rheinsberg Music Academy. From 2002 to 2003, she studied composition with Hanspeter Kyburz in Berlin and Ernst Helmuth Flammer in Dresden. From 2002 to 2003, she received a NaFöG scholarship (Berlin graduate funding) from the Berlin University of the Arts and, in 2002, a working scholarship at the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop. In 2004, she completed postgraduate studies in composition with Ernst Helmuth Flammer at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden, where she received a scholarship in 2005; in 2007, she was a scholarship holder of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture at the Künstlerhof Schreyahn.
Irina Emeliantseva has received commissions for compositions from the Berlin Senate Department for Science, Research and Culture and from the young.euro.classic. festival at the European Music Summer Berlin.
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