Ingrid Fliter made her American orchestra debut with the Atlanta Symphony in January 2006, just days after the announcement of her Gilmore Award. Since then she has made debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco, St. Louis, Toronto, Detroit, Dallas, Vancouver and Indianapolis symphonies, the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra among others, as well as at the Mostly Mozart, Grant Park, Aspen, Ravinia and Blossom festivals. Equally busy as a recitalist, Ms. Fliter has recently performed in New York at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Museum, and in Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit, Vancouver and Baltimore and for the Van Cliburn Foundation in Fort Worth.

Highlights of her 9/10 season include debuts with the Minnesota Orchestra and Houston, Seattle and Nashville symphonies; re-engagements with the Cleveland Orchestra and the St. Louis, National, Toronto, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Oregon and Colorado symphonies; and recitals in Boston, Montreal, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall and New York’s Town Hall.

In Europe and Asia, Ms. Fliter has performed with orchestra and in recital in Amsterdam, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Salzburg, Cologne, St. Petersburg and Berlin and participated in festivals such as La Roque D’Antheron, Prague Autumn and The World Pianist Series in Tokyo. Recent and upcoming engagements abroad include appearances with the Rotterdam, Israel and Royal Liverpool Philharmonics, the BBC Symphony, Royal Scottish National and the Gulbenkian Symphony Orchestra; recitals in Paris, Barcelona and Milan and a third recital at London’s Wigmore Hall; a tour of Spain with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra; and her eighth tour to Japan.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1973, Ingrid Fliter began her piano studies in Argentina with Elizabeth Westerkamp. In 1992 she moved to Europe where she continued her studies at the Freiburg Musikhochschule fur Musik with Vitaly Margulis, in Rome with Carlos Bruno and with Franco Scala and Boris Petrushansky at the Academy “Incontrui col Maestro” in Imola, Italy. She has also participated in master classes with Leon Fleisher, Alexander Lonquich, Louis Lortie and Vladimir Bakk.

Ms. Fliter began playing public recitals at the age of eleven and made her professional orchestra debut at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires at the age of 16. Already the winner of several Argentine competitions, she went on to win prizes at the Cantu International Competition and the Ferruccio Busoni Competition in Italy and in 2000 was awarded the silver medal at the Frederic Chopin Competition in Warsaw.

An exclusive EMI recording artist, Ms. Fliter’s first CD, an all-Chopin disc, was released in April 2008. Her second EMI recording of the complete Chopin Waltzes will be released in the fall of 2009. Live recordings of Ms. Fliter performing works by Beethoven and Chopin at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam as well as a DVD of a recital at the Miami International Piano Festival are available on the VAI Audio label.