Ingrid Fliter

Ingrid Fliter sprang to international attention when she was awarded the 2006 Gilmore Artist Award, one of only a handful of pianists to have received this honor. The Gilmore Artist Award is presented to an exceptional pianist who possesses profound musicianship and charisma and who sustains a career as a major international concert artist. Born in Buenos Aires, she began her piano studies in Argentina with Elizabeth Westerkamp. In 1992 she moved to Europe where she continued her studies at the Freiburg Musikhochschule with Vitaly Margulis, then in Rome with Carlo Bruno, and with Franco Scala and Boris Petrushansky at the Academy "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola. She was a laureate of the Ferruccio Busoni Competition in Italy and was awarded the silver medal at the 2000 Frederic Chopin Competition in Warsaw. Fliter now divides her time between Europe and the U.S.A., where she works with orchestras such as the Cincinnati Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony and Toronto Symphony. Recital highlights in North America have included performances in Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Museum, as well as in Fort Worth, for the Van Cliburn Foundation, and in Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit, Vancouver, Montreal, and Santa Barbara. Fliter has recorded two all-Chopin discs and an all-Beethoven disc for EMI, and her recording of the two Chopin concertos will be released on Linn Records in the spring.