Irina Zahharenkova - About

I would like to express my deep gratitude to BBT for giving me the Fellowship Award. It has been an extremely developing experience, which influenced my professional life and gave me a lot of encouragement. For this great support, so important for me as a musician, I am very thankful.

Irina Zahharenkova is one of the most outstanding keyboard performers of her generation to emerge from Estonia and embraces a wide repertoire from baroque to contemporary on piano, fortepiano and harpsichord. Irina has won countless prestigious prizes and awards and is in demand as a soloist with leading international orchestras performing at top venues and festivals throughout Europe and in Japan. She also holds teaching positions at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and Sibelius Academy in Finland, both of which she is an alumna.

BBT funded the recording of a piano and harpsichord demo CD which led to further support for two well-received albums on the Classical Records label, featuring Scarlatti Piano Sonatas and Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

Irina was supported with a BBT Fellowship between 2007 and 2012.

For a current biography please visit artsplmf.com

Press Release: Scarlatti Piano Sonatas

Photographs by Mait Jüriado and Pette Rissanen