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The 3rd International Piano Competition “Wiener Klassik” will take place from July 18th to 19th, 2026 in the Ehrbarsaal in Vienna – the second oldest concert hall in the city, where Brahms, Bruckner, Schoenberg, Reger and Bartók, among others, have performed.
The competition is open to pianists of all nationalities aged 7 to 32 .
The jury consists of renowned pianists and professors from European music universities.
The finalists will perform on July 20, 2026 at the Musikverein Wien (Magna Auditorium / Gläserner Saal) and will receive cash and special prizes (concerts, CD recording, etc.) with a total value of €15,000.
Apply now and become part of the Vienna Piano Summer Festival!
RULES & REGULATIONS
Category 1: 7–9 years
(born between July 19, 2016 and July 18, 2019)
Category 2: 10–12 years
(born between July 19, 2013 and July 18, 2016)
Category 3: 13–15 years
(born between July 19, 2010 and July 18, 2013)
Category 4: 16–23 years
(born between July 20, 2002 and July 19, 2010)
Category 5: 24–32 years
(born between July 20, 1993 and July 19, 2002)
Round 1: The selection for the first round of the piano competition will be made via video submission.
You can submit up to three pieces of your choice. The maximum playing time is:
Category 1: 5 minutes
Category 2: 7 minutes
Category 3: 10 minutes
Categories 4–5: 15 minutes
The videos must be uploaded by 28 February 2026, 23:59 (CET) at the latest.
The results of the first round will be announced by the end of April 2026 .
Please note: If your video exceeds the maximum time, only the specified duration will be considered.
Round 2 : The second round of the piano competition will take place on July 17th and 18th, 2026 in the Ehrbar Hall in Vienna.
The program must include a work by Mozart, Haydn, or Beethoven (from the Viennese Classical period) . If a sonata is chosen, one movement is sufficient. The remaining pieces can be freely selected.
The maximum playing time is:
Category 1: 5 minutes
Category 2: 7 minutes
Category 3: 10 minutes
Categories 4–5: 15 minutes
The second round will take place on July 18, 2026 for categories 1–3 and on July 19, 2026 for categories 4–5.
Round 3 / Prize Winners' Concert.
The winners of each category will perform their second-round program on the evening of July 20, 2026, in the famous Musikverein Wien (Magna Auditorium / Glass Hall).
The first three places in each group receive cash prizes and participate in the prize winners' concert at the Musikverein; in addition, special prizes are awarded (including concerts in Vienna and a CD recording).
The total value of the prizes is €15,000.
PRIZES
→ Prizes with a total value of 15,000 euros will be awarded.
→ The first three participants in each group of the 2nd round will receive cash prizes 💵
→ The first three from each group will perform at the famous Musikverein in Vienna on July 20, 2026 🎹🎶
→ Special Mozart Prize: Solo concert at the Mozarthaus Vienna
→ Special Beethoven Prize: Solo concert in the Ehrbar Hall, Vienna
→ Special Haydn Prize: Professional CD recording at C-Arts Studio Vienna
→ All participants will receive a certificate of participation with a points rating.
→ Individual feedback starting from the first round
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JURY
Franz Liszt University Budapest
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Jovanka Banjac (SRB/AT)
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Jovanka Banjacist was born in Belgrade, formerly Yugoslavia, where her talent for piano was discovered at a very early age. After graduating from music high school in Belgrade, she studied piano in Florence with Oratio Frugoni, who was then an assistant to Arturo Benedetti-Michelangeli at the Rosary College-Graduate School of Fine Arts. In 1974, she graduated with top honors from the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence.
Afterwards, she moved to Vienna to continue her studies with Professor Dieter Weber at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where she graduated with distinction in 1978 with a degree in concert performance. While still a student, she won first prize at the Elena Rombro-Stepanow Piano Competition, organized by the university. As a prize, she received a scholarship, and in subsequent years also a scholarship from the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Sport.
She completed her master's degree at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg in 1984.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who was then still teaching at the Mozarteum, supervised her and certified her diploma thesis on Mozart's piano sonatas.
Jovanka Banjac has been teaching piano at various levels for many years. Since 1995, she has been a piano lecturer at the Institute for Composition, Music Theory and Electroacoustics at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw).
Jovanka Banjac has written and published various educational works: Notentrainer /Haas Musikverlag Köln; Kinderlieder und Fingertanz as well as Weihnachtslieder für Klavier zu vier Hände (Döblinger-Wien).
She has recorded several CDs with works by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Liszt, Scriabin, Czerny, Crammer, Tajcevic, and others. As a soloist, she performed at the opening of the San Lorenzo Festival in Florence in 1974 and in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein in 1976.
All of Mozart's piano sonatas have been recorded by Jovanka Banjac and she continues to actively perform his complete piano works (videos on YouTube).
She currently gives regular masterclasses and advises the winners of the Elevato piano competition.
She sees her mission and task, among other things, as supporting young aspiring pianists with her advice and knowledge, as well as creating opportunities to introduce them to a wider audience.
Boris Bloch (UKR, GER, USA)
Former Professor at the Folkwang University of Arts Essen
Born in Odessa, the pianist and opera conductor Boris Bloch has long been considered one of the most important interpreters of classical and romantic piano music. He studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with the world-renowned pianists and teachers Dmitri Bashkirov and Tatiana Nikolayeva. After graduating, he won First Prize at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Italy and the Young Concert Artists Award in New York.
His repertoire ranges from Scarlatti and Bach through the Viennese Classical composers, Chopin and Liszt, to the German and Russian Romantics, as well as the most important composers of the 20th century. Bloch's profound knowledge of the piano literature of the last three centuries, his familiarity with the entire history of music and its protagonists, combined with astounding virtuosity and a strong artistic personality, form the basis of his playing, which captivates with its depth of expression, richness of color, stylistic independence, and an unmistakable "singing tone".
He has appeared as a soloist with numerous European orchestras – including those in Vienna, Leipzig, Berlin, Bergen, Rome, Budapest, and Moscow – as well as with American orchestras such as Cleveland, Houston, and Pittsburgh. With the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, he performed all of Rachmaninoff's piano concertos, and under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach, he played the rarely performed Busoni concerto. He also performed all of Tchaikovsky's concertos with the Staatskapelle Berlin and Scriabin's piano concerto with the Duisburg Philharmonic.
Bloch also made a name for himself as a conductor, particularly during his time as music director of the Odessa Opera. His conducting repertoire includes, among others, all the operas of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and Rachmaninoff.
Bloch has made numerous critically acclaimed recordings. Several of these are now considered benchmark recordings, particularly his recordings of Liszt's operatic paraphrases, which were awarded the Grand Prix International du Disque Liszt by the Liszt Society of Budapest and the Diapason d'Or in Paris. Other recordings include all of Mussorgsky's piano works, Mozart's Coronation Concerto, Tchaikovsky's Third Piano Concerto and Busoni's Piano Concerto, as well as works by Schubert, Bach, Chopin, and many others.
His most recent releases were on the Gramola label: six CDs with the complete cycles of Liszt's "Années de pèlerinage" and "Harmonies poétiques et religieuses," as well as a box set of selected Beethoven sonatas. He recently completed the Boris Bloch edition, a 10-CD set entitled "Aveu passionné."
His students at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen included Nikolaus Lahusen (1960–2005), Evgeny Bozhanov, Vladimir Kharin, Peter Jozsa, and Eduard Kiprsky. Valentin Malinin and Stanislav Korchagin, among others, participated in his masterclasses.
Franz Liszt University Budapest
Russell Harrold was born in England. He is a graduate of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where he studied with the Irish pianist Philip Martin. He then continued his studies with Professor Sándor Falvai at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, graduating in 2013 with a Master of Arts in classical piano performance.
Since then, Russell has worked as a pianist, répétiteur, and accompanist for opera, choirs, and other musical institutions. His most notable engagements include those with the Hungarian State Opera, the Birmingham Opera Company, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), the BBC Proms Youth Choir, the University of Birmingham, the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Ex Cathedra, and the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also worked as a ballet pianist for the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Royal Ballet School, the Hungarian National Ballet, and the Estonian National Ballet.
As an orchestral pianist and celest, he has performed with, among others, the CBSO, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Viva, the Dohnányi Orchestra, and the Danubia Orchestra. He has collaborated with renowned conductors such as Vasily Petrenko, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, John Wilson, Andrew Litton, János Kovács, and Simon Halsey.
Russell Harrold currently lives in Budapest and works as a répétiteur at the Liszt Academy of Music.
Christiane Karajev (AT)
Professor at the Music University of Vienna (MDW).
60 years at the piano - 40 years of teaching at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
Christiane Karajeva completed her studies at the Vienna Academy of Music and at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.
Her most important teachers included Richard Hauser, Dieter Weber, Lev Naumov and Wilhelm Kempf. At the age of seventeen, she was the youngest prizewinner at the International Beethoven Competition. She performed mainly as a soloist in the most important concert halls in Vienna and traveled to Central Europe, Canada, Mexico, South Korea and the Middle East.
As the pianist of the Beethoven Trio Vienna, she performed successfully with the ensemble in Europe, the USA and Japan until 1999. Numerous CDs have been recorded under the Camerata label.
She regularly leads masterclasses in Austria, Korea and Japan and has worked as a mobile teacher in the international Erasmus program, including in Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Italy, Portugal, Poland and Canada.
In 2017, she held master classes and solo recitals in Iran for the first time.
Her first solo CD with works by Scriabin and Schubert was released by Gramola in 2017, followed by another CD in 2020 with works by Berg, Medtner, Janacek and Schubert.
Cambridge Conservatory
Pianist and educator Jan Loeffler has built a varied career as a soloist, chamber musician, collaborative pianist, and teacher, performing and teaching across Europe, Asia, and North America. He has given recitals in Hungary, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK, Ireland, the USA, and China, with performances at venues including the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Cheltenham Town Hall, Warwick Arts Centre, Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, Wilton’s Music Hall in London, Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal, Forum Leverkusen, Great Hall of the Erholungshaus der Bayer AG Leverkusen, amongst others.
Loeffler has appeared as soloist with orchestras such as Camerata Europeana, Philharmonie Heidelberg, and the Helios Chamber Orchestra, performing piano concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Brahms under conductors including Radoslaw Szulc, Owen Leech, and Jürgen Weisser. He has also worked with members of the Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers, Staatskapelle Weimar, and Camerata Ireland.
In February 2026, Loeffler will give the world premiere of Piano Sonata No. 3 by New York-based composer Steven Christopher Sacco, written for, and dedicated to, him. A recording of the work is planned to follow.
Alongside his performing career, Loeffler is active as a teacher and mentor. He regularly works with students who perform at venues such as Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall, New York), Musikverein Vienna (Gläserner Saal), the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.), Royal Festival Hall (London), Béla Bartók National Concert Hall (Budapest), and Buckingham Palace. They have also worked with ensembles including the City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Asian Chamber Orchestra, and the National Open Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, premiering a new piano concerto by Liam Taylor-West with the latter and performing it in London, Birmingham and Cardiff.
His students have received first prizes at competitions including the Vienna International Piano Competition, Wales International Piano Festival, Vivaldi International Music Competition, and the San Francisco International Innovative Music Competition, and, upon graduating from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, have gone on to further their studies at institutions such as the Royal College of Music London, Royal Academy of Music London, Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, University of Michigan, and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, some of them on full scholarships with teaching assistantships.
Having just returned from Asia, giving a series of masterclasses in Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen and Shanghai, Loeffler has also given masterclasses and lectures at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, Mannes School of Music in New York, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and Hochschule für Musik Dresden.
Loeffler chaired the jury for the finals of the Jersey Young Musician of the Year competition and the finals of the World Piano Teachers Association (WPTA) Hong Kong and Macau Open Piano Competition, alongside Colleen Lee. He has served as an adjudicator for many other competitions, including the Music Teachers National Association Competition in Tennessee, USA, as well as the national finals of the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Intercollegiate Piano Competition, both in the senior and junior divisions.
His research was selected for presentation by EPTA-UK and by the National Conference for Keyboard Pedagogy in the USA, and an edition review of Haydn’s piano sonatas, published by Wiener Urtext, appeared in the EPTA Journal. He has delivered pre-concert talks, including an interview with conductor Sir Mark Elder at Warwick Arts Centre, and appeared as an expert commentator on The Times Radio Breakfast Show discussing pianist Lang Lang’s article on parental involvement in children’s piano studies. In addition to his teaching and performing, Loeffler serves as a committee member of the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe (BPSE), contributes concert and CD reviews to its periodicals, and is Co-Artistic Director of its 2027 Beethoven Festival-Competition. BPSE competition laureates and supported pianists include prize winners of some of the most important international piano competitions, including the Géza Anda, Leeds, Busoni, Artur Rubinstein, Cleveland and Long-Thibaud-Crespin competitions, as well as the recipient of Rudolf Buchbinder’s Prix Serdang.
Loeffler studied with Professor Silke-Thora Matthies at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg, where he earned two diplomas in Instrumental Performance and in Instrumental Pedagogy, and later completed his Master of Performance and Research at the Royal Academy of Music in London under Professor Ian Fountain.
Loeffler has been on the faculty of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire since 2013 where he leads his class of principal study pianists. He joined the faculty of its Pre-College Division in 2015, serving as its Head of Keyboard since 2023, thereby overseeing the development and guidance of young pianists.
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Iura Margulis (DE/US)
Professor at Musik and Arts University Vienna (MUK)
Concert pianist, recording artist, master teacher, lecturer, and author Jura Margulis has been internationally recognized for his compellingly communicative and emotionally charged performances, for the range of his expressive tonal palette and his consummate transcendental virtuosity, as well as for his innovative approach to specialized pedagogy, piano construction, repertoire, technology and pianistic tradition. Reviewers have praised the "absolute authority" of his interpretations and the sense of "controlled obsession" he transmits at the keyboard (Fono Forum). The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung noted that his aesthetic is both "impulsive and contemplative." The Los Angeles Times praised his "excellent pianism" and called him "highly musical:”. The Washington Post applauded his "titanic reserves of sheer power" and his "effortless spontaneity.” The Fort Worth Star-Telegram called his performance "… the perfect Beethoven for the audience of our time … sweeping lyricism … imagination, originality, and good taste pervaded every phrase." Drehpunkt Kultur, Salzburg stated: "After the performance one fleetingly thinks of the pianists that became legends, but comparisons are impermissible. Margulis is a master sui generis (of his own kind)."
His orchestral appearances include performances with the Russian National Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit, the Südwestrundfunk Orchestra, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Venezuela, the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Shenzhen Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana. He has played in numerous festivals, including the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, the Berliner Festwochen at Berlin Philharmonic Hall, the Verbier, the Lugano, and the Sommets du Classique Festivals in Switzerland, the Argerich-Beppu Music Festival in Japan, the Martha Argerich Festival in Hamburg, and the Salzburger Festspiele in Austria. In his younger years Margulis was a laureate in more than a dozen national and international competitions, including Busoni in Italy and Guardian in Ireland. He was also a recipient of the DAAD scholarship and the esteemed Pro Europa prize awarded by the European Foundation for Culture.
AcXve as a chamber musician, Margulis is a founding member of the Margulis Piano Trio and performed with, among many others, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Lilya ZIlberstein, Alissa and Natalia Margulis, Alexander Buzlov, Mark Baranov, Arnold Bezuyen, the soloists of the Moscow Virtuosi, members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Moscow String Quartet. He also concerXzed with Martha Argerich on one and two pianos in Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and the USA. Their next performance is schedule for 2024.
In the last decade (COVID years;-) he performed in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Dallas, CincinnaX, Salt Lake City, Liale Rock, Tulsa, Carmel, AusXn, Phoenix, San Jose, Minneapolis, Memphis, and New Orleans, as well as to Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Elmau, Berlin, Bologna, Bruxelles, Bayreuth, Budapest, Bangkok, Barcelona, Beijing, Paris, Cape Town, Madrid, Yerevan, Warsaw, Aix-en-Provence, Almaty, Ankara, Lugano, Jerusalem, Hong Kong, Sapporo, Seoul, Shenzhen, Salzburg, Vienna, Moscow,
St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Tbilisi, Thessaloniki, Tokyo, and Tallin.
Margulis has recorded ten CDs for Sony, Ars Musici, Oehms Classics, Naxos, and is featured on BMG, AvanX, and Steinway Classics, covering a wide spectrum of repertoire. These recordings have atrracted significant attention, including selection as a „reference recording" by Fono Forum, and inclusion on the "Bestenliste" of the Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Recording Review). His CD featuring piano transcriptions of music from Bach to Caplet (2007), received 10 out of 10 for "artistic quality" from KlassikHeute. The accompanying review stated: "not since Horowitz’s old RCA recording have I encountered a performance of Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre that so grippingly leaps from the stage, as here in Jura Margulis’ own transcription." The review also noted that Margulis’ own transcription of a little-known piece by André Caplet "should, like Ravel’s own transcription of his La Valse, claim a place in the repertoire of young pianists."
Klassik.com, also giving the CD its highest rating, raved that Margulis "cannot be praised enough." Margulis’ Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Berg solo CD was released in fall of 2009; All Music Guide wrote: "This CD is one of the best played, best interpreted, best programmed recitals of piano music of the year". In 2011 Margulis released a CD with the complete Liszt violin and piano duo repertoire with his sister Alissa Margulis.
In 2012 a CD with Schumann’s Dichterliebe in original version and Berg’s Seven Early Songs with tenor Arnold Bezuyen was released.
In 2013 he created the Margulis Sordino Pedal with Steingraeber & Sons, www.MSP.com announces: "The Margulis Sordino Pedal is a quantum leap for the dynamic (volume) and spectral (color) expressive palette of the modern concert grand piano." In 2014 Margulis released an all Schubert con Sordino CD on a MSP Steingraeber D-232 prototype. Fono Forum writes: "Margulis plays (Schubert) with an enthusiasm, a
sensitivity, and a creative imagination that are near incomparable." By now dozens of MSP Grand Pianos are distributed throughout institutions and concert venues worldwide. In 2015 his latest CD was released with all original transcriptions of music form Bach to Shostakovich on the MSP Steingraeber D-232 including a piano duo with Martha Argerich of Night on Bald Mountain by M. Mussorgsky, also in Margulis’ original
transcription - "… astonishing …" Piano News; "… demonic … a brilliant achievement ... " Pianiste. He is the author of (originally an online platform “The Call Project” in 1996-2008) "Pianist To Pianist” (PtoP in 2010), a collection of thoughts, observations, research, methodology, rules, exceptions, concerns, considerations, and secrets … and published it by its eponymous title in print media in 2020 by EmanoMedia, Switzerland.
Jura Margulis’s father and grandfather were significant pianists and pedagogues and methodical piano pedagogy is an integral part of his arXsXc vision. He holds master classes in the USA, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Estonia, Armenia, Israel, Korea, Hong Kong, China, and Japan. Born in Leningrad / St. Petersburg, UDSSR, Jura Margulis was raised in West Germany, where he studied with his father, Vitaly Margulis of Kharkiv, at the MusikHochschule Freiburg. He was also a
student at the prestigious Fondazione per il Pianoforte in Cadenabbia at Lake Como in Italy. In 1994 he moved to the United States to study with maestro Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and made the US his home. A university professor by 30, Margulis in 2008 became the inaugural holder of the Emily J. McAllister Endowed Professorship in Piano at the J.W. Fulbright College of the University of AR State. In 2018 Jura Margulis returned to Europe following an appointment as full professor of piano and
member of the Center of Science and Research at the Music and Art University in Vienna, Austria, where he resides.
Biliana Tzilinkova (AT/BGR)
Professor at Mozarteum Salzburg
The pianist Biliana Tzinlikova is at home on the solo stage and both as a chamber musician and song accompanist. Her curiosity and spirit of discovery enable her to look back on a multi-faceted discography, which largely includes world premiere recordings from the piano literature.
Biliana Tzinlikova developed the spectrum of her pianistic abilities during her studies under the influence of different piano traditions: the Russian Piano School – studies with Marina Kapatzinskaja at the State Academy of Music in Sofia – and the Leygraf Piano School – master concert studies with Christoph Lieske at the Mozarteum University. The intensive work with Ruggiero Ricci (1998 – 2003) and Ferenc Rados (2002 – 2005) was also particularly formative. Furthermore, BilianaTzinlikova gained important impulses from master classes with Elisso Virsaladse, Arndzej Jaszinsky, Pavel Gililov, Menahem Pressler, Paul Badura-Skoda, Alexander Lonquich and Klaus-Christian Schuster.
More recently, her artistic work as a concert pianist has focused on the rediscovery and performance of forgotten piano music. This passion is showcased in her CD recordings. In 2014, she released a world premiere of Franz Anton Hoffmeister’s Piano Sonata on a 3 CD set (Grand Piano, Naxos International), which promptly made a name for her in the professional world. The recordings received enthusiastic reviews from internationally recognized music organizations and academics alike. She continued recording, releasing a CD with virtuosic variations from Stephen Heller in 2016, piano music of the French composer Louise Farrenc in 2018, and a CD with works from Germaine Tailleferre, Georges Auric and Louis Durey in 2020. (All three published by Paladino Music).
Since 2017 Tzinlikova has also been working together with actresses and actors to organize crossgenre concert programs that focus on female composers’ works in music history. As a sought after chamber music partner, she collaborates often, locally and abroad, with internationally renowned artists such as Christian Gerhaher, Adrian Eröd, Thomas Selditz, Klara Flieder, Thomas Riebl, Colin Jacobsen, Ulf Schneider, Ann Harvey-Nagl, Vesna Stankovic, Stephan Picard, Patrick Demenga, Gustav Rivinius, Dany Bonvin, Esther Hoppe, Christophe Pantillon, Marta Sudraba, Andreas Schablas, Christoph Zimper, and members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
As a soloist, she has performed at the Mozart Week Festival in Salzburg, and with Stefan Sanderling with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. She has given concerts in almost every country in Europe, as well as the USA. In 2004, she had her debut in the Viennese Concert house. Biliana Tzinlikova is a professor at the Mozarteum University in Austria. Since her habilitation she has led a class for piano and chamber music there, and is the initiator and artistic director of the festival „Kammermusiktage Erika Frieser“, which is dedicated to works by female composers.
Since May 2023, Biliana Tzinlikova has been a co-founder and member of the Ehrbar Chamber Music Society in Vienna.