Sofja GÜLBADAMOVA
PIANO
Prizewinner of many international competitions in USA, Spain, France, Germany and Russia, has won 2008 the first prizes at two prestigious piano competitions in France.
At the Rosario Marciano International Piano Competition (2010, Vienna) she was awarded the Grand Prix and a few months later she won the 2nd prize at the International Piano Competition “André Dumortier” in Belgium.
Sofja Gülbadamova has been dedicating herself since many years to the music of the Hungarian composer Ernst von Dohnányi.
A live recording of the piano concerto No.2 with Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra under Dm. Jurowski came out in 2017 at the label hd-klassik.
In February 2018 a double CD featuring Dohnányi‘s major works for piano, followed by both piano concertos (2020) as well as the Variations on a Nursery Song (2022) for piano and orchestra had been issued by Capriccio. The latter CD was chosen Editor’s Choice of the Month (02/2022) and appeared in the list of the „Best recordings so far“ in the British magazine “Gramophone” in May 2022.
Furthermore, it was nominated for the International Classical Music Awards. The latest release in the series (2024) was recorded on a Bösendorfer piano with a semi-circular keyboard that belonged to Dohnányi himself.
Since 2019, several CD’s – with solo programs, as a chamber music partner as well as a soloist with orchestra – were released by Hänssler CLASSIC and Querstand.
Among the most significant recent concerts are to be mentioned Sofja Gülbadamova’s performances as a soloist under the baton of such famous conductors as Michel Tabachnik, Michail Jurowski, Marko Letonja, Kirill Karabits, Alevtina Ioffe, Dmitri Jurowski, Gábor Hontvári, Emmanuel Plasson, Massimiliano Caldi, Marc Piollet, Antoni Wit, Frank Cramer and many others. She performed at the Elbphilharmonie and the Laieszhalle Hamburg, at the Berlin Philharmony, at the Konzerthaus Berlin, at the Liederhalle Stuttgart, at the Kurhaus Wiesbaden as well as at other important venues and festivals in Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, in Switzerland, in the Netherlands, in Sweden, in Poland, in Hungary, in Russia, Moldavia, Kazakhstan, in the USA, in Chile, Columbia and Argentina.
As a chamber musician she collaborates with such outstanding artists as James Tocco, Florian Uhlig, Gary Hoffman, Justus Grimm, Denis Goldfeld, Hartmut Rohde, Alexandra Soumm, Thomas Carroll, Marc Coppey, Guillaume Martigné, Aleksandr Khramouchin, the Quartet Sine Nomine, the Psophos Quartet, to name just a few.
2017 Sofja Gülbadamova was appointed artistic director of the International Brahms Festival in Mürzzuschlag (Austria).
