The pianist Tamara Stefanovich is acclaimed worldwide for her sophisticated recital programmes, as a chamber musician, and as a concert soloist. She has worked with renowned orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and is a regular guest at international concert halls such as Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Royal Albert Hall and the Wigmore Hall in London. She also performs at prestigious festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Flagey Piano Days and the BBC Proms.
Recent highlights have included her debut with the Israel Philharmonic under Kirill Petrenko and Magnus Lindberg’s Third Piano Concerto with the NDR Elbphilharmonie. Her 2023/24 season began at the Beethovenfest Bonn; other performances included concerts with the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony and Das Neue Ensemble. She also gave recitals at venues including the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, the Tonhalle in Zurich and the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid.
She has worked with conductors such as Susanna Mälkki, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Osmo Vänskä and with composers such as Hans Abrahamsen, George Benjamin, Pierre Boulez and György Kurtág. She explored new territory with Christopher Dell, Christian Lillinger and Jonas Westergard in the jazz and improvisation project SDLW. Their first joint album was released in June 2022.
Tamara Stefanovich’s discography includes an Edison Award-winning recording of Kurtág’s …quasi una fantasia… and his Double Concerto. Her recording of Bartók’s Concerto for Two Pianos with Pierre-Laurent Aimard was nominated for a Grammy. Most recently she has released a solo album of études by Vassos Nicolaou and Abrahamsen’s Left, alone with the WDR Symphony Orchestra.
She regularly leads educational projects in London, Cologne and at the Ruhr Piano Festival, and has been guest curator of the festival The Clearing in Portland, and visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music and the Accademia di Musica Pinerolo.
