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The Dutch-born pianist Clara Biermasz studied at the Academy of the Arts in Utrecht, the Netherlands, at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, Hungary, and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She completed her Master of Arts with distinction in 2012.

She is an award-winner at many international competitions, including the 1st Prize, VSB Prize, and the Youth Jury Prize at the Princess Christina Competition in the Netherlands, northern region (1996), the first prize in the category of chamber music and ‘Primo Premio Assoluto’ – the overall winner in all categories (respectively in duo with Adam Javorkai) at the international competition ‘Premio Città di Padova’, Italy (2008) and prize-winner at the‘18th International Chamber Music Competition Thessaloniki’ in Greece.

Clara often performs as a soloist, a chamber musician and as a song accompanist. Clara worked together with her husband, cellist Adam Javorkai (Bank Austria Artist of the Year in Austria 2009), cellists Pieter Wispelwey, Johannes Moser, Reinhard Latzko & Michal Balas, violinist Lieke te Winkel, mezzo-soprano Karin Strobos, writer Jan Brokken and members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. 


Performances at the following venues: in the Wiener Konzerthaus, at the Beethoven Festival Wien, at the Chopin Festival in Gaming (Austria), as well as at such places as the the Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice, the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, the Chopin Centre in Szafarnia (Poland), for the Chopin Center in Hamburg & Darmstadt (Germany), the Dutch Embassy in Vienna, the Dutch Embassy in Cairo (Egypt), the Dutch Embassy in Muscat (Oman), Vredenburg in Utrecht, de Doelen in Rotterdam, the Muziekcentrum Frits Philips, Eindhoven, the Hermitage Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and at prestigious festivals like the ‘Settimane musicali al Teatro Olimpico’, Vicenza. 


Clara passionately teaches a piano class with young talents in Vienna and works as a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna since 2022. 
She has held masterclasses for the Meisterklassen Heinrich Neuhaus Foundation Warschau (Poland), the Kodály Society Wales (England) and the Masterclasses Gutenstein (Austria). Since 2022 Clara works as a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. 


Clara served as a jury member at the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition for children & youth in Szafarnia, Poland, at the Princess Christina Competition in the Netherlands, at the Prima la Musica Competition in Austria, the Premio Città di Padova Competition and as a honorary president at the International Chopin Competition in Tangshan, China. Her students were prizewinners at the Indonesia International Piano Competition, at the International Jenö Takács Piano Competition for young pianists and at the Prima la Musica Competition in Vienna. 

Besides her musical career, Clara is artistic director of the Dutch Chopin Foundation & Chopin Festival Nederland, since 2016 board member and since 2019 vice president of the International Chopin Society in Vienna.


She has made several recordings for international radio and television stations, among others for ATV and ORF (Austria). 
In 2013, her CD with sonatas for cello and piano by Brahms and Grieg was released by the Austrian label Gramola (Gramola 99034). This CD was sponsored by ARP and Blüthner. She recently recorded a Chopin album and her third CD with sonatas by Schubert will be released soon (sponsored by Stadt Wien). 

Clara Biermasz has been the scholarship-holder of different cultural funds in the Netherlands such as the Cultuurfonds, the Stichting Willem Mengelberg Fonds, the Stichting Fonds voor Geld- en Effectenhandel, the Stichting A.F.V.O.M.S., the Stichting Niemeijer Fonds, Stichting Vreedefonds and received a scholarship from the City of Vienna. 

Clara currently lives in Vienna, with her husband Adam Javorkai (cellist) and her two sons, Ruben and Aaron.


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