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 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and is a regular guest at international concert halls such as Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Philharmonie de Paris and the Tonhalle in Zurich. She also performs at prestigious festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Flagey Piano Days and the BBC Proms.
Highlights of the 2024/25 season include Luigi Nono’s Como una ola de fuerza y luz with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, and performances with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and at the Fundação Casa da Música in Porto. Recitals take her to Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal, the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Wigmore Hall in London.
Recent highlights have included her debut with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Kirill Petrenko and Magnus Lindberg’s Third Piano Concerto with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra.
She has worked with conductors such as Joana Mallwitz and Esa-Pekka Salonen and with composers such as Hans Abrahamsen, George Benjamin, Pierre Boulez and György Kurtág. Her chamber music partners include Matthias Goerne and Pierre-Laurent Aimard. She explored new territory with Christopher Dell, Christian Lillinger and Jonas Westergaard in the jazz and improvisation project SDLW. Their first joint album was released in June 2022; the second followed in 2024 and received the German Record Critics’ Award.
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. Her most recent album, Organised Delirium, celebrating the centenary of Pierre Boulez, was released in March 2025.
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 di Pinerolo.
