Irina Lyakhovskaya (Piano)

Irina Lyakhovskaya is a highly regarded pianist performing as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist. She has given many performances at leading international venues, including the Southbank Centre, Wigmore Hall, Symphony Hall, Cadogan Hall, Kings Place, St John’s Smith Square, the St Petersburg Philharmonic, Smetana Hall, the Porto Coliseum, and at concert clubs and festivals across the UK. In 2016 – 2020, she was an Artist in Residence at Eastbourne Arts Centre, where she performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas in an 8-concert cycle.

As a concerto soloist, she has performed works by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Grieg, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Skryabin and Rachmaninov. She lives in London and is a faculty member at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Born in St Petersburg, she studied with Alexander Sandler at the St Petersburg Conservatoire and with John Bingham in London.