Diana Tishchenko

Violin

In the Season 22/23 Diana Tishchenko will be returning to the several of the most celebrated concert halls in Europe including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Philharmonie de Paris, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Konserthuset Stockholm, LSO St Luke’s London, Müpa Budapest, Sage Gateshead, Philharmonie Cologne, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Konzerthaus Dortmund, Casa da Musica Porto, NOSPR Katowice, and Bozar Brussels. Orchestral projects include Odense Symphoniker, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Lemanic Modern Ensemble and Berlin Barock Soloists which will consist of the XX-Century repertoire such as violin concertos by Gubaidulina, Kurt Weill, Leonard Bernstein, but also Haydn and Mozart, with appearances among others at Hitzacker Festival and Heidelberger Frühling in Germany, and Royan Festival in France.

In November 2019 her debut album was released on Warner Classics, to universal critical acclaim. Entitled Strangers in PARadISe, it is a hommage to four great composers – Ravel, Ysaye, Enescu, and Prokofiev – on whom 1920s Paris had a huge influence. BBC Music Magazine awarded the album five stars, while Gramophone Magazine complimented her for “a genuinely distinctive, individual voice” as well as “beauty of tone, polish and range of colours”. Le Figaro wrote: “An album that confirms, with the yardstick of Prokofiev, but also Ravel and Enescu, the astonishing maturity of the artist.” In 2021 Berlin University of Arts released her album dedicated to the Felix Mendelssohn Competition with works by Janáček, Debussy, Prokofiev, and the contemporary female composer Ming-Hsiu Yen.

Crimean-born and Berlin-based violinist Diana Tishchenko started the violin with her aunt Lidia Tishchenko, later with Tamara Mukhina at Lysenko Specialized Music School in Kiev. With 18 she entered the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, where with 20 she became the concertmaster of the orchestra working with Sir Colin Davis, Franz Welser-Möst, Herbert Blomstedt, Antonio Pappano and Daniele Gatti and performing in Europ’s most renowned concert venues. She perceived her master and artist diploma degrees at the HfM Hanns Eisler in Berlin with Ulf Wallin, to whom she was assistant later on, and with Boris Kuschnir at the Graz University of Arts.  Upon graduating she performed Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 at the Konzerthaus Berlin conducted by Lahav Shani. The strong music inspiration was provided to her by Ferenc Rados, Rita Wagner, Saschko Gawriloff, Steven Isserlis and Sir András Schiff. 

From 2022 Diana Tishchenko takes over the artistic direction of the concert series “Resonanzen” in Siegburg, Germany. She plays the violin by Antonio Stradivari (XVll Century, Cremona).

Diana Tishchenko was nominated by the Cité de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris and Casa da Música Porto.

Updated on 15 march 2023

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