In January 2006, Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter was named the recipient of the 2006 Gilmore Artist Award.  Only the fifth pianist to have been so honored, the Gilmore Artist Award is made to an exceptional pianist who, regardless of age or nationality, possesses broad and profound musicianship and charisma and who desires and can sustain a career as a major international concert artist.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1973, Ingrid Fliter began her piano studies in Argentina with Elizabeth Westerkamp. In 1992 she moved to Europe where she continued her studies in Rome with Carlo Bruno and with Franco Scala and Boris Petrushansky at the Academy "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola.  She has also participated in master classes with Leon Fleischer, Alexander Lonquich, Louis Lortie and Vladimir Bakk.

Ms. Fliter began playing public recitals at the age of eleven and made her professional orchestra debut at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires at the age of 16.  Already the winner of several Argentine competitions, she went on to win prizes at the Cantu International Competition and the Ferruccio Busoni Competition in Italy and in 2000 was awarded the silver medal at the Frederic Chopin Competition in Warsaw.

Ingrid Fliter made her major American orchestra debut with the Atlanta Symphony in January 2006, just days after the announcement of her Gilmore Award. Since then she has made debut appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco, St. Louis, National, Cincinnati, Toronto, Detroit, Dallas, Colorado and Oregon symphonies, the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa and at the Mostly Mozart, Grant Park, Aspen and Blossom festivals. Equally busy as a recitalist, Ms. Fliter has recently performed in New York at Zankel Hall at Carnegie and the Metropolitan Museum, in Fort Worth for the Van Cliburn Foundation and in Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit, Vancouver, Santa Barbara and Kansas City.

Highlights of her 08/09 season include debuts with the Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Vancouver, Pacific, Charlotte and Fort Worth symphonies and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; a return to the Detroit Symphony; and recital appearances in San Francisco, Baltimore, Denver, Quebec, Portland, OR, Santa Fe, the Universities of Illinois, Wisconsin and Wyoming and the Ravinia Festival.

In Europe and Asia, Ms. Fliter has performed with orchestra and in recital in Amsterdam, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Salzburg, Cologne, St. Petersburg and Berlin and participated in festivals such as La Roque D’Antheron, Prague Autumn and The World Pianist Series in Tokyo. Recent and upcoming engagements abroad include debuts with the Rotterdam, Israel and Royal Liverpool Philharmonics, the BBC Symphony in London and the Gulbenkian Symphony Orchestra; a debut at Wigmore Hall in June 2007 and a second appearance there in June 2008; recitals in Paris, Barcelona and Istanbul; a tour of Spain with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra; and her eighth tour to Japan.

Ingrid Fliter has also been chosen to participate in London's BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists project. Under the auspices of this program, she has worked with several of the BBC orchestras and appears at the City of London and Cheltenham festivals.

An exclusive EMI recording artist, Ms. Fliter’s first CD, an all-Chopin disc, was released in April 2008. Live recordings of Ms. Fliter performing works by Beethoven and Chopin at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam as well as a DVD of a recital at the Miami International Piano Festival are available on the VAI Audio label.