About
Alina Shalamova and Nikolay Shalamov are a piano duo and pianist couple.
Founding
The couple's piano duo, founded in 2009 - she is Bulgarian, he Russian - won 1st prize at the 64th ARD International Music Competition in 2015, a prize that had only been awarded twice in the 63-year history of the competition, which was founded in 1952 was.
Education
The pair received their training as a duo at the National Music Academy "Pantscho Wladigerow" in Sofia in the class of Prof. Milena Mollova, a Gilels student, and at the Escuela Superior de Música 'Reina Sofia', Madrid. The duo is currently studying with the "Soloist with Four Hands", the piano duo of the brothers Hans-Peter and Volker Stenzl at the Rostock University of Music and Theater. They rounded off their training with master classes with Jacques Rouvier and the duo Tami Kanazawa and Yuval Admony (Japan / Israel).
Repertoire
Shalimova / Shalimov mainly perform original piano duo works from the 18th to 20th centuries. Century on, from Mozart to Czerny and Schubert to Debussy, Ravel and Schönberg to the present day (Paul Hindemith, Ferran Cruixent).
Appearances
In 2017 the duo, which had already given concerts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the North German Philharmonic Rostock and the Symphony Orchestra Sofia, made their debut in the chamber music hall of the Berlin Philharmonic. They have also given concerts in the Auditorio Nacional de Música Madrid, the Palau de la Música Catalana Barcelona, the Philharmonie Luxemburg and the Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels. You were repeatedly guests at the Rheingau Music Festival and the Nymphenburg Summer.