Lily Maisky, piano
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Née à Paris en 1987, c’est à Bruxelles que Lily Maisky a grandi. Elle a commencé le piano à l’âge de quatre ans avec Lyl Tiempo et continua ses études auprès de Hagit Kerbel, Ilana Davids et Alan Weiss. Lily a brillamment poursuivi ses études à la “Purcell School of Music” de 2001 à 2005 où elle a étudié également le jazz. Elle a enrichi son parcours en suivant les Master Classes et conseils de grands artistes de renom tels Martha Argerich, Dmitri Bashkirov, Joseph Kalichstein, Evgeny Mogilevsky, Pavel Gililov et Vitali Margulis pour n’en citer que quelques uns.
Lily donne des performances surtout en Europe et Asie mais aussi aux Etats-Unis dans de telles salles que le Royal Festival Hall de Londres, Leiszhalle et Elbphilarmonie à Hambourg, le Konzerthaus et Musikverein de Vienne, Prinzregentheatre à Munich, La Fenice à Venise, la BeethovenHalle de Bonn, le Konzerthaus de Berlin, Teatro Olimpico à Rome, le Conservatoire de Moscou, la Philarmonie de Saint-Pétersbourg, Carnegie Hall à New York, Seoul’s Performing Arts Center, Megaron à Athènes et Suntory Hall à Tokyo parmi beaucoup d’autres.
Lily a été l’invitée de nombreux festivals de renom comme le Festival de Verbier ou le Progetto Martha Argerich à Lugano, le Freiburg Zelt Music Festival, le Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Schlesswig Holstein, le Festival Miyazaki au Japon, le Festival de Piano de Beijing, Bergamo-Brescia en Italie, le Festival Franz Liszt en Autriche, Julian Rachlin and Friends à Dubrovnik, le Festival International de Musique de Chambre d’Utrecht sous la direction de Janine Jansen, le Festival de Gstaad et les Rencontres de Bel Air en France.
Lily a une prédilection pour la Musique de Chambre et forme un duo avec son père depuis plus de 10 ans, ainsi que le Maisky Trio avec son frère Sascha depuis de nombreuses années. Elle a collaboré également avec beaucoup de grands musiciens tels que Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Renaud Capuçon, Dora Schwarzberg, Chantal Juillet, Sergey Krylov, Martha Argerich, Nicholas Angelich, Frank Braley et Gérard Caussé. Elle figure régulièrement avec des collègues de la nouvelle génération tels que Alissa Margulis, Hrachya Avanesyan, Geza Hosszu-Legocky, Alëna Baeva, Orfeo Mandozzi, Boris Brovstyn, Boris Andrianov et le Quatuor Szymanowski.
La jeune pianiste à joué sous les batons des Maestros Leonard Slatkin, Gerd Albrecht, Thomas Sanderling, Josep Caballé-Domenech, Enrique Diemecke, Jack Martin Händler, Alberto Veronesi, Daniel Raiskin, Charles Olivieri-Munroe et est parue sur multiples enregistrements des labels EMI, Deutsche Grammophon et Avanti Classics.
Lily Maisky was born in Paris, moving to Brussels soon after. She began playing the piano at the age of four, with Lyl Tiempo, also studying with Hagit Kerbel, Ilana Davids and Alan Weiss. Lily was a pupil at the “Purcell School of Music” from 2001 till 2005 where she also studied jazz piano. She has received master classes and musi- cal advice from renowned artists including Martha Argerich, Dmitri Bashkirov,
Joseph Kalichstein, Pavel Gililov and Vitalij Margulis to name a few.
Concert appearances have taken her throughout Europe and she regularly tours the Far East, North and South America. Lily has been invited to many of the great festi- vals such as the Verbier Festival, Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, the Edinburgh Festival, Miyazaki Festival, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Bergamo-Brescia, the Bei- jing Piano Festival, the Franz Liszt festival in Austria, Julian Rachlin and Friends in Dubrovnik, Rencontres de Bel Air in France, Gstaad Festival, the Schlesswig-Holstein Music Festival as well as the Berlin Festival and many others. She has had the privi- lege of performing concertos under the batons of maestros Leonard Slatkin, Thomas Sanderling, Gerd Albrecht, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Daniel Raiskin, Alberto Veronesi, Jack Martin Händler, Josep Caballé-Domenech, Enrique Diemecke and Charles Olivieri Munroe, amongst others. She has also performed in such prestigious venues as the Royal Festival Hall in London, Vienna’s Musikverein and Concerthaus, Mu- nich’s Prinzregentheatre, Hamburg’s Leiszhalle and Elbphilarmonie, Berlin’s Konz- erthaus, Venezia's La Fenice, Bonn's BeethovenHalle, Tokyo's Suntory Hall, Rome's Teatro Olimpico, Moscow Conservatory, Saint Petersburg Philarmonie, New York’s Carnegie Hall, Seoul’s Performing Arts Center, Athens Megaron, Palais des Beaux- Arts in Brussels, the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Essen Philarmonie, Auditorium de
Lyon and Teatro Colon in Argentina among many others.
Lily has released several recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, EMI and Belgian label Avanti Classics, has been frequently broadcasted on radio and television world- wide as well as featuring in several documentaries. Her latest releases on Deutsche Grammophon, “Adagietto” and “Twentieth Century Classics” were vert well received and there are many more projects in the making.
Lily has a predilection for chamber music and forms a regular duo with Mischa Maisky, as well as the Maisky trio with her brother. She has also performed with such artists as Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Dora Schwarzberg, Renaud Capuçon, Maxim Rysanov, Gérard Caussé, Chantal Juillet, Sergey Krylov, Martha Argerich, Nicholas Angelich, Frank Braley, as well as Yossif Ivanov, Marc Bouchkov, Rosanne Philip- pens, Philippe Quint, Alissa Margulis, Hrachya Avanesyan, Geza Hosszu-Legocky, Boris Andrianov, Isztvan Vardai, Alexander Mogilevsky, Alexander Chaushian, Orfeo Mandozzi, Alena Baeva, Boris Brovstyn and the Szymanowski Quartet.
Lily is a Steinway Artist and the proud owner of the last instrument of the legendary Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.