The Dutch-born pianist Clara Biermasz received her musical
training in the classes of Prof. Alexander Warenberg and Prof. Klára Würtz at
the Academy of the Arts in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She completed her bachelor
studies in 2004 and then studied in the classes of Prof. Balázs Szokolay and
Prof. Balázs Réti at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, Hungary, and in
the class of Prof. Michael Hruby at the University of Music and the Performing
Arts in Vienna. She completed her M.A. with distinction in 2012.
Clara has attended master classes held by Itamar Golan, Jan Wijn, Alan
Weiss, Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, Martijn van den Hoek, Gergely Bogányi, Istvan
Gulyás and Paolo Giacometti.
She is an award-winner at many international competitions, including
the first prize (VSB Prize) and the Youth Jury Prize at the Princess Christina
Competition in the Netherlands (1996), the first prize in the category of
chamber music and ‘Primo Premio Assoluto’ – the overall winner in all
categories (respectively in duo with Ádám Jávorkai) at the international
competition ‘Premio Città di Padova’, Italy (2008). In 2008, Clara was also a
prize-winner at the ‘18th International Chamber Music Competition Thessaloniki’
in Greece.
Clara has held concerts at the following venues: in the Vienna
Konzerthaus, at the Beethoven Festival Wien, at the Chopin Festival in Gaming
(Austria), as well as at such prestigious places as the Palazzo Leoni
Montanari, Vicenza, the Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice, the Palazzo Zacco-Armeni in
Padua (Italy), the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, the National Theatre in
Miskolc (Hungary), the Dutch Embassy in Vienna, the Dutch Embassy in Cairo
(Egypt), the Dutch Embassy in Muscat (Oman), the Bogense Summer Festival
(Denmark), the Festival Peinture en Musique (France), Vredenburg in Utrecht, de
Doelen in Rotterdam, the Muziekcentrum Frits Philips, Eindhoven, the Hermitage
Amsterdam (Holland) and at festivals like the Cello Festival in Dordrecht and
the ‘Settimane musicali al Teatro Olimpico’, Vicenza, as well as the Kodály
Society Wales, where she also has held master classes.
She has made several recordings for international radio and television
stations, among others for ATV and ORF (Austria).
In 2013, she made her first CD with sonatas for cello and piano by
Brahms and Grieg for the austrian label Gramola (Gramola 99034).
This CD was sponsored by ARP and Blüthner.
Clara Biermasz has been the scholarship-holder of different cultural
funds in the Netherlands such as the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Stichting
Willem Mengelberg Fonds, Stichting Fonds voor de Geld- en Effectenhandel,
Stichting A.F.V.O.M.S., Stichting Niemeijer Fonds and Stichting Vreedefonds.
‘… An exceptional talent with great technical skills …’ (International
Federation of Chopin Societies and the International Chopin Society in Vienna,
2011) ‘Her wonderfully clear narrative tone simply made us forget everyday
concerns …’ (Wiener Chopin-Blätter, 2012)
‘The solo pieces she played-impressionist poems in music by Debussy and
one of Chopin’s Nocturnes-were a testament to the talent that has won Clara
many international prizes…’ (Times of Oman, 2014)
‘Two exceptional talents with brilliant technical and refined
interpretative skills’ – Padova Cultura on the Duo Jávorkai & Biermasz
(2008)
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