Lily Maisky

Lily Maisky was born in Paris, moving to Brussels soon after. She began playing the piano at the age of four, with Lyl Tiempo, also studying with Hagit Kerbel, Ilana Davids and Alan Weiss. Lily was a pupil at the “Purcell School of Music” from 2001 till 2005 where she also studied jazz piano. She has received master classes and musical advice from renowned artists including Martha Argerich, Dmitri Bashkirov, Joseph Kalichstein, Pavel Gililov and Vitalij Margulis to name a few.
Concert appearances have taken her throughout Europe and she regularly Asia, North and South America. Lily has been invited to many of the great festivals such as the Verbier Festival, Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, the Edinburgh Festival, Miyazaki Festival, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Bergamo-Brescia, the Beijing Piano Festival, the Franz Liszt festival in Austria, Julian Rachlin and Friends in Dubrovnik, Montpellier Festival, Gstaad Festival, the Schlesswig-Holstein Music Festival as well as the Berlin Festival and many others. She has had the privilege of performing concertos
under the batons of maestros Leonard Slatkin, Thomas Sanderling, Gerd Albrecht, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Junichi Hirokami, Daniel Raiskin, Alberto Veronesi, Jack Martin Händler, Josep Caballé-Domenech, Enrique Diemecke and Charles Olivieri Munroe, amongst others. She has also performed in such prestigious venues as the Royal Festival Hall in London, Zurich’s Tonnhale, Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Munich’s Prinzregentheatre, Hamburg’s Leiszhalle and Elbphilarmonie, Berlin’s Konzerthaus and Philarmonie, Venezia's La Fenice, Bonn's BeethovenHalle, Tokyo's Suntory Hall, Rome's Teatro Olimpico, Moscow Conservatory, Saint Petersburg Philarmonie, New York’s Carnegie Hall, Seoul’s Performing Arts Center, Athens Megaron, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Essen Philarmonie, Auditorium de Lyon and Teatro Colon in Argentina among many others.
Lily has released several recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, EMI and Belgian label Avanti Classics, has been frequently broadcasted on radio and television worldwide as well as featuring in several documentaries. Her latest releases on Deutsche Grammophon, “Adagietto” and “Twentieth Century Classics” were very well received and there are many more projects in the making. She also features in the latest film by Aleksey Igudesman “Breaking Rachmaninoff” commemorating Rachmaninoff’s 150th anniversary.
Lily has a predilection for chamber music and forms a regular duo with Mischa Maisky since 2005, as well as the Maisky trio with her brother Sascha. She has also performed with such artists as Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Dora Schwarzberg, Renaud Capuçon, Maxim Rysanov, Gérard Caussé, Daishin Kashimoto, Sergey Krylov, Martha Argerich, Nicholas Angelich, Frank Braley, Ralph Kirshbaum, Jan Vogler as well as Yossif Ivanov, Marc Bouchkov, Rosanne Philippens, Philippe Quint, Alissa Margulis, Hrachya Avanesyan, Geza Hosszu-Legocky, Boris Andrianov, Isztvan Vardai, Alexander Mogilevsky, Alexander Chaushian, Orfeo Mandozzi, Alena Baeva, Boris Brovstyn and the Szymanowski and Gropius string quartets.
Lily is a Steinway Artist and the proud owner of the last instrument of the legendary Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.

"Lily Maisky establishes her credentials as an exceptional pianist"
BBC Music Magazine

"Lily Maisky played with grace, vigour and composure proving how well rounded a musician she is."
Musical Criticism, Edinburgh International Festival

"As an experienced, sensitive but independent young pianist, Lily Maisky presented herself in Munich’s Prinzregententheatre as highly talented."
Süddeutsche Zeitung