Magda Amara is a regular guest on many international stages. Playing in venues such as the Musikverein, Konzerthaus Vienna, Theater an der Wien, Mozarteum Salzburg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and Tonhalle Zürich, her performances bring her to many important concert halls in Europe and beyond. M. Amara has been invited to many prestigious festivals, including Dvořákova Praha, Le Sion Festival, Festival de Radio France in Montpellier, International chamber music festival Utrecht, Best of NRW, Neuberger Kulturtage and Attergauer Kultursommer, and enjoyed successful collaborations with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the North Netherlands Orchestra, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Brno. As a devoted chamber musician, she has collaborated with outstanding partners, among them Janine Jansen, Renaud Capuçon, Julian Rachlin, Dora Schwarzberg and Stefan Vladar, as well as members of the Vienna Philharmonic and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras. She shares a very close musical relationship with the Dutch cellist Harriet Krijgh, with whom she recorded two CDs, released by the Austrian Label Capriccio in 2013 and 2015. Her projects in the last season included concerts at the Lucerne Festival, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Musikverein Vienna, Lincoln Center New York and many others. Magda Amara was born in Moscow and graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory in the class of Sergei Dorensky. She completed her studies with Stefan Vladar at the University of Music in Vienna, and has placed at eleven national and international competitions, including First Prize at the Jeunesses Musicales and Ennio Porrino Piano Competitions, and Third Prize at the Vladimir Horowitz International Piano Competition.