Armenian-born Marianna Shirinyan is one of the most creative and in sought after pianists in Europe today. Her vibrant and virtuos musicianship puts her in demand, both as soloist and as chamber musician. Shirinyan plays with great sensitivity, understanding, technical brilliance and beauty of tone, which allows her to offer a wide range of repertoire. Her love for the music and her joy in sharing it with a larger audience are apparent in her performances. She has received Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s prestigious P2 award for her contribution to Danish music life and the critics prize of the association of Danish critics. She is a frequent guest at a string of international music festivals. Simultaneously she has won the reputation of being one of this generations leading pianists through solo appearances with orchestras as the Bavarian Radio Symphony, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Oslo, Helsinki and Copenhagen Phil. She enjoyed collaborations with conductors such as Michael Balke, Lawrence Foster, Zoltan Kocsis, Antonello Manacorda, Eva Ollikainen, Jun Märkl, Daniel Raiskin, Lan Shui, Thomas Søndergård, Marc Soustrot, Krysztof Urbanski and Joshua Weilerstein. Shirinyan is a professor of piano at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. She is a Steinway artist and artistic director of the Oremandsgaard Chamber Music Festival in Denmark and co-artistic director of the Valdres Sommersymfoni in Norway.