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In her return to this country, young Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter, rewarded in 2006 with the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award, will offer a programme entirely dedicated to Beethoven & Chopin

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Born in Buenos Aires in 1973, Ingrid Fliter began her piano studies in Argentina with Elizabeth Westerkamp. Ms. Fliter began playing public recitals at the age of eleven and made her professional orchestra debut at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires at the age of 16. In 1992 she moved to Europe where she continued her studies at the Freiburg Musikhochschule fur Musik with Vitaly Margulis, in Rome with Carlos Bruno, among others.

Already the winner of several Argentine competitions, she went on to win prizes at the Cantu International Competition and the Ferruccio Busoni Competition in Italy and in 2000 was awarded the silver medal at the Frederic Chopin Competition in Warsaw. In January 2006, she was named the recipient of the 2006 Gilmore Artist Award. Only the fifth pianist to have been so honored, the Gilmore Artist Award is made to an exceptional artists.

With residence in Milan & New York, she develops an intense international carrer. She made her American orchestra debut with the Atlanta Symphony. Since then she has made debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, tand the Los Angeles Philharmonic . In Europe and Asia, Ms. Fliter has performed with the Rotterdam, Israel and Royal Liverpool Philharmonics, the BBC Symphony, Royal Scottish National and the Gulbenkian Symphony Orchestra; Equally busy as a recitalist, Ms. Fliter has performed in the most important cities of the USA, as recently at Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Museum, Europe and Asia.

An exclusive EMI recording artist, Ms. Fliter’s first CD, an all-Chopin disc, was released in 2008. Her second EMI recording of the complete Chopin Waltzes released in 2009. Live recordings of Ms. Fliter performing works by Beethoven and Chopin at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam as well as a DVD of a recital at the Miami International Piano Festival are available on the VAI Audio label.