Ingrid Fliter

“Fliter plays with such grace and heartfelt sincerity... by whatever magical means, [she] touches the heart.” Gramophone
Ingrid Fliter has established a reputation as one of the pre-eminent interpreters of Chopin. A graceful and charismatic performer, Fliter is well-known for her thoughtful and sensitive music-making and effortless technique.

Born in Buenos Aires, Ingrid Fliter began her piano studies in Argentina with Elizabeth Westerkamp and after moving to Europe, she continued her studies with Vitaly Margulis at the Musik Hochschule in Freiburg, in Rome with Carlo Bruno and in Imola, at the Academy ‘Incontri col Maestro’ with Franco Scala and Boris Petrushansky. She also worked with and been mentored by Zoltan Kocsis, Louis Lortie, Alexander Lonquich and Alfred Brendel.

In addition to Fliter’s recording of Chopin’s Preludes, Fliter recorded the Chopin Piano Concerti with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Jun Märkl and the disc attracted extensive critical acclaim. Prior to this her two all-Chopin albums on EMI Classics received five-star reviews. Her most recent recording features the first Mendelssohn and Schumann concertos with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and she records the complete Chopin Nocturnes in November 2018, both for Linn Records.

Fliter’s engagements includes performances at Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian National Philharmonic, Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi, and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. In North America, she has performed with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and Naples Philharmonic. She has worked with conductors including Zoltan Kocsis, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Hans Graf, Giancarlo Guerrero, Jun Märkl, Asher Fisch, Ilan Volkov and Alexandre Bloch. Fliter has performed recitals in London at the Southbank Centre’s International Piano Series, in Stockholm, and in Lisbon.

Winner of the Silver Medal in the 2000 International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Ingrid Fliter was awarded the 2006 Gilmore Artist Award, one of only a handful of pianists to have received this honour.