Tatiana Korsunskaya has taught vocal coaching, lied interpretation, collaborative piano, and chamber music for the last 20 years at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and the Bern University of the Arts. In 2020, she also became a professor of solo and ensemble vocal coaching at the FHNW Basel Academy of Music in Switzerland.
In 2000, Ms. Korsunskaya won first prize at the International Competition “Franz Schubert and Modern Music” in Graz, Austria, and also emerged as the winner of the Thessaloniki International Chamber Music Competition in Greece.
She was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award and received the ECHO Klassik Award in 2015 for Chamber Music Recording of the Year. Ms. Korsunskaya has recorded works by Rachmaninoff (Sony Classical, 2009), Luise Adolpha Le Beau (MDG, 2014), the first recording of piano trios by Eduard N.pravn.k (MDG, 2017), and Franz Schubert and Swiss composers with Regula Mühlemann (Sony Classical, 2019). Ms. Korsunskaya studied piano and chamber music at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Basel Academy of Music, and Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where she learned fortepiano and basso continuo. She has collaborated with many famous singers and lied interpreters, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Kurt Widmer, Norman Shetler, Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Nuria Rial, Juliane Banse, Brigitte Fassbaender, Margreet Honig, and others in concerts and during numerous master classes.
Ms. Korsunskaya regularly gives master classes in chamber music, vocal coaching, and lied interpretation, and is often invited to serve as a jury member of international competitions and castings. Together with violinist Bartek Nizioł and cellist Denis Severin, she founded the Spyros Piano Trio. Ms. Korsunskaya has participated in festivals across Europe and performed at many famous concert halls, including Liederhalle Stuttgart, Vienna Konzerthaus, Wigmore Hall, Tonhalle Zürich, Stadtcasino Basel, Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre, Teatro Goldoni in Florence, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Angelika Kauffmann Hall in Schwarzenberg, and Carnegie Hall New York.
