German pianist Elisaveta Blumina, an Echo Klassik Awards prizewinner and artistic director of the Hamburg International Chamber Music Festival, began her training at the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory. She continued her studies at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre and the Bern Conservatory. Her teachers have included prestigious artists such as Evgeni Koroliov, András Schiff and Radu Lupu.

Blumina achieved international recognition with performances at New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Berliner Philharmonie, Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, Beethovenhalle Bonn, and the National Concert Hall, Dublin. She is one of the leading interpreters of 20th- and 21st-century music, and her recordings of the works of Weinberg have won particular international acclaim.

Blumina is one of the founding members of the Blumina Ensemble and is the regular piano partner of the Staatskapelle Berlin Wind Quintet. She is also reguarly a guest at international festivals. Blumina is an adviser for the concert series of the Neue Synagoge Gröbzig Museum and, in 2015, founded her own chamber music festival, the Giluim Festival, in Schönebeck, which is dedicated to cultivating and preserving the forgotten Jewish musical tradition, ‘Verfemte Musik’.