Diana Tishchenko

The recent announcement that Diana Tishchenko will be a Rising Star of the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) in the 20/21 season is testament to the high esteem in which she is held by critics and audiences alike. Under  the auspices of the highly prestigious Rising Star scheme, she will perform in several of the most celebrated concert halls in Europe, including the Philharmonie de Paris, Casa da Musica Porto, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Festspielhaus Baden Baden, LSO St Luke’s London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Müpa Budapest, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Sage Gateshead, Philharmonie Cologne, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Konzerthaus Dortmund, Konserthuset Stockholm, L’Auditori Barcelona, Megaron Athens, and NOSPR Katowice. 

In November 2019 her debut album was released on Warner Classics, to universal critical acclaim. Entitled Strangers in PARadISe, it is a hommage to four great composers – Ravel, Ysaye, Enescu, and Prokofiev – on whom 1920s Paris had a huge influence. BBC Music Magazine awarded the album five stars, while Gramophone Magazine complimented her for "a genuinely distinctive, individual voice" as well as "beauty of tone, polish and range of colours". Le Figaro wrote: "An album that confirms, with the yardstick of Prokofiev, but also Ravel and Enescu, the astonishing maturity of the artist."

Past and upcoming engagements include appearances with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Hamburger Symphoniker, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, OrchestreNational d’Ile de France, OrchestrePhilharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestre National des Pays de Loire, Baden-Baden Philharmonic, and Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, working with conductors such as Long Yu, Lahav Shani, Eliahu Inbal, Joshua Weilerstein, Yaron Traub, Ion Marin, and Christian Ehwald. Appearances at major festivals include Salon de Provence in 2019, the Verbier Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Salzburg Chamber Music Festival, the InternationalesMusik Festival Koblenz, and La Folle Journée de Nantes 2019 in the closing concert broadcast to millions worldwide. 

On hearing her debut concert with the DSO Berlin at the Berlin Philharmonie under Joshua Weilerstein, German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel gave her a glowing review, writing: “[Tishchenko] compels the listener even in the first measures of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1… With a tone of incessant, nuance-rich intensity, she opens our eyes to the inner drama of this piece [...] Simply genius!”

2018 was a momentous year for her containing several highlights. In November 2018 she was awarded he Grand Prix Jacques Thibaud at the legendary Long-Thibaud-Crespin International Competition in Paris by jury chair Renaud Capuçon.

As an enthusiastic chamber musician, and in May 2018 she was participated in Chamber Music Connects the World, performing chamber music with artists such as Gidon Kremer, Steven Isserlis and Christian Tetzlaff.

Diana is a laureate of several international competitions including the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition 2018, First Prize at the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Music Academy Berlin Competition 2017, First Prize at the 2014 Lyon International Chamber Music Competition (Violin and Piano Duo category), the International ARD Competition in Munich and the David Oistrakh International Violin Competition in Moscow.

Born in the Crimea, Ukraine in 1990, Diana Tishchenko she began studying music at early age, eventually continuing an intensive education at the Lysenko Specialized Music School in Kiev. Soon after, she entered the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, where she was concertmaster until 2013, working with Sir Colin Davis, Franz Welser-Möst, Herbert Blomstedt, Antonio Pappano and Daniele Gatti and performing in Europe's most renowned concert venues. She perceived her master and artist diploma degrees at the HfM Hanns Eisler in Berlin with Ulf Wallin, to whom she was assistant later on, and with Boris Kuschnir at the Graz University of Arts. Upon graduating she performed Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No.2 at the Konzerthaus Berlin conducted by Lahav Shani. The strong music inspiration was provided to her by Ferenc Rados, Rita Wagner, Saschko Gawriloff, Steven Isserlis and Sir András Schiff.