Teaching Languages : German, English
Teaching Dates : Aug. 10 - 14, 2025
The pianist Biliana Tzinlikova is at home on the solo stage and both as a chamber musician and song accompanist. Her curiosity and spirit of discovery enable her to look back on a multi-faceted discography, which largely includes world premiere recordings from the piano literature.
Biliana Tzinlikova developed the spectrum of her pianistic abilities during her studies under the influence of different piano traditions: the Russian Piano School - studies with Marina Kapatzinskaja at the State Academy of Music in Sofia - and the Leygraf Piano School - master concert studies with Christoph Lieske at the Mozarteum University. The intensive work with Ruggiero Ricci (1998 - 2003) and Ferenc Rados (2002 - 2005) was also particularly formative. Furthermore, BilianaTzinlikova gained important impulses from master classes with Elisso Virsaladse, Arndzej Jaszinsky, Pavel Gililov, Menahem Pressler, Paul Badura-Skoda, Alexander Lonquich and Klaus-Christian Schuster.
More recently, her artistic work as a concert pianist has focused on the rediscovery and performance of forgotten piano music. This passion is showcased in her CD recordings. In 2014, she released a world premiere of Franz Anton Hoffmeister’s Piano Sonata on a 3 CD set (Grand Piano, Naxos International), which promptly made a name for her in the professional world. The recordings received enthusiastic reviews from internationally recognized music organizations and academics alike. She continued recording, releasing a CD with virtuosic variations from Stephen Heller in 2016, piano music of the French composer Louise Farrenc in 2018, and a CD with works from Germaine Tailleferre, Georges Auric and Louis Durey in 2020. (All three published by Paladino
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Since 2017 Tzinlikova has also been working together with actresses and actors to organize cross-genre concert programs that focus on female composers’ works in music history. As a sought after chamber music partner, she collaborates often, locally and abroad, with internationally renowned artists such as Christian Gerhaher, Adrian Eröd, Thomas Selditz, Klara Flieder, Thomas Riebl, Colin Jacobsen, Ulf Schneider, Ann Harvey-Nagl, Vesna Stankovic, Stephan Picard, Patrick Demenga, Gustav Rivinius, Dany Bonvin, Esther Hoppe, Christophe Pantillon, Marta Sudraba, Andreas Schablas, Christoph Zimper, and members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
As a soloist, she has performed at the Mozart Week Festival in Salzburg, and with Stefan Sanderling with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. She has given concerts in almost every country in Europe, as well as the USA. In 2004, she had her debut in the Viennese Concert house. Biliana Tzinlikova is a professor at the Mozarteum University in Austria. Since her habilitation she has led a class for piano and chamber music there, and is the initiator and artistic director of the festival "Kammermusiktage Erika Frieser", which is dedicated to works by female composers.
Since May 2023, Biliana Tzinlikova has been a co-founder and member of the Ehrbar Chamber Music Society in Vienna.
