Irina Lyakhovskaya
Professional accompanist
Music
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Faculty of Music
King Charles Court
Old Royal Naval College
Greenwich
London
SE10 9JF
Tel: +44 (0)20 8305 4444
Email: i.lyakhovskaya@trinitylaban.ac.uk
Area of Work
AccompanistBiography
Irina Lyakhovskaya was born in St Petersburg, Russia. She graduated from the St Petersburg Conservatoire in 1999, where she studied with Alexander Sandler. In 2000, she was invited to continue her studies in England as a postgraduate scholar at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (then known as Trinity College of Music) with John Bingham.
In 2003, Irina won first prize in the TCM Association’s Soloist Competition with her interpretation of the Schumann Piano Concerto. Since then, she has given many performances at leading international venues including the Philharmonic Hall in St Petersburg, Smetana Hall in Prague and the Coliseum in Porto. In the UK, she has appeared at the Southbank Centre, Symphony Hall, St John’s Smith Square and Cadogan Hall performing solo recitals and as the concerto soloist in Mozart, Haydn, Schumann, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov concertos. Her work has also been broadcast on BBC television and radio.
An active chamber musician, Irina performs internationally with violinist Eleanor Percy, with whom she has given numerous recitals at the Wigmore Hall in London. They have recorded sonatas by Brahms and Prokofiev for the ImLab label, and the complete Mozart sonatas for Melodiya. Currently, Irina is artist in residence at Eastbourne Arts Centre where she is performing the complete Beethoven piano sonatas in eight concerts.
Irina has worked at Trinity Laban as a professional accompanist since 2002.
Qualifications And Background
St Petersburg Conservatoire, 1999
Trinity College of Music – now Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Qualifications/Educational Background
St Petersburg Conservatoire, 1999
Trinity College of Music – now Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Creative Outputs
Debut CD with Eleanor Percy on Russian label IMLab (2003)
Complete Mozart Violin and Piano sonatas for historic Russian label Melodiya:
Vol. 1, the Mannheim, Paris and Salzburg Sonatas
Vol. 2, the Viennese sonatas
Awards
1st Prize in the TCM Associate’s Soloist Competition, 2003