Prizewinner of International Competitions and a Festival

• German  Piano Magazin´s "Piano News  Prize” for interpretation of Chopin during "Hommage of Frederic Chopin", Düsseldorf/Germany (2005)

• 1st. Prize at Lions Competition, Germany (2008)

• Public-Prize at the Piano Festival Rösrath 2008, Germany.

• 1st. Prize at International Piano Competition "Lorenzo Perosi" Italy (2007)
• 1st. Prize at International Piano competition "Carlo Mosso", Italy (2007)
• 2nd. Prize at 7th International Piano competition "Giovani Talenti", Italy (2007)
• 3rd. Prize at the International EPTA competition for young Pianists, Belgium (2006)

BIOGRAPHIE

Inga Fiolia, born in 1983 in Tbilisi (Georgia) in a family of musicians.

She gave her debut at the age of 7 with Georgian State Chamber Orchestra at the Tbilisi State Conservatory. This was followed over the next three years in the Philharmonic Hall with the Georgian National Symphony.  Since then Inga Fiolia performed with Bergishe Symphony, Philharmonie -Suedwestfallen Orchestra, Student Orchestra of Aachen, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaroslawl’s National Symphony Orchestra Russia.

2011 Inga Fiolia gave her debut recitals in Switzerland, Marocco and France (Cortot Hall, Paris) after  numerous performances  in Germany ( "Chamber Music Summer Festival  of Villa Musica  Meinz", "1^st Cologne Festival for Contemporary Music","Rösrath Piano Festival" ) , Panama-City, Japan,  Austria (Mirabell Schloss, Salzburg), Belgium (Grand Hall of Brussels Conservatory), Russia (Moscow State Conservatory, Glinka Museum of Musical Culture of Moscow; Jaroslavl´s national Philharmonic Hall) and Georgia (Tbilisi national Conservatory; Georgian national Philharmonic Hall).

Her performances were broadcast on German Radio Channel "Deautschlandradio" and Georgia TV.

She is since 2010 a Chamber Music Artist of the “Yehudi Menuhin Association “Live Music Now”, where she also realize concerts with her own moderations. 

Inga  Fiolia´s repertoire includes baroque up to 21st century music and seldom played Prokofieff´s   sonata No.9. She gave “premiere” performance of some contemporary music pieces by  German, French  and  Belgian composers of the 21st century.  

Along with her work as a soloist, Inga Fiolia  is also chamber musician  and song pianist. She is the partner of tenor Christian Lanza, has worked together with brasilian Pianist of WDR Orchestra -Paulo Alvares (Contemporary Music Improvisation for 2 pianos) and members of Minguet Quartet during the “International Chamber Music-Week” Böhlen.

As  a song pianist she recorded a sound to a german film  “Nähe auf Distanz.  Letter exchange of  Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn”, produced 2009  by “Beethovenfest Bonn” and broadcast on German WDR TV & Radio in 2010.

Born in Georgia into a musical family, Inga began  at the age of six her studies at the "Specialized Music School of Tbilissi State Conservatory” in Georgia and continued later at the "Central Music School  of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory” , which she graduated after five years of studies by Jury Levin and  Prof. Alexey Nasedkin  in  2000. She received  her  Bachelor  and “Konzertexamen” Degrees in Solo Piano and Pedagogy 2011 at “Hochschule für Musik Cologne”, Germany by famous russian pianist, Prof. Vassily Lobanov.  There, in Europa´s greatest Music Concervatory, she also worked two years as accompanist (2009-11). Currently Inga Fiolia is a student in "Ecole Normal de Musique" in Paris.

She has also studied at the “Summer Academy Mozarteum” in Salzburg, the "Summer Music" in Vienna, has been invited to “ Piano Academy Hamamatsu”, Japan and to” International Chamber Music-Week Böhlen”, Germany and has participated in master classes of world´s famous musicians such as Peter Feuchtwanger , Pierre -Laurent Aimard, Rudolf Kehrer (Vienna), Malcolm Bilson (USA), O. Yablonskaya (USA), Sequeira Costa (Portugal), Eduard Brunner (Chamber Music).

Inga Fiolia has received grants and scholarships from “Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben” and “The Solti Foundation”.

Inga speaks 6 languages.