Jania Aubakirova studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in the class of professor Lev Vlasenko.
1983 she won the Grand Prix of the Concours International Marguerite Long et Jacques Thibaud and a special prize of the same Concours, “For the Best Performance of Contemporary French Composers” and Grand Prix of the International Competition of Chamber ensembles (France, 1985)
Mrs. Aubakirova regularly gives the concerts with well-known orchestras in Kazakhstan, the most famous halls in France, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Russia, Poland, Italy, the USA, Israel, Greece, and Hungary. She played in Salle Pleyel, Salle Gaveau, Salle Alfred Cortot, Concert Hall in Sapporo, Grand Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory, Philharmonic Grand Hall, Moscow International Music House, Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, Barbican Hall, Wigmore Hall, Vigoda Hall, Konzerthaus, Kennedy Centre Concert Hal, Carnegie Hall.
Jania Aubakirova cooperation with famous collectives and musicians: Mikhail Pletnev, Alexander Sladkovsky , Alexander Vedernikov, Denis Shapovalov, Marat Bisengaliev, Alexander Trostyansky, Christophe Mangou, quartet «Danel», Russian National Orchestra, Symphony orchestra of the French Radio, Symphony Orchestra of India, English chamber orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra and others.
Jania Aubakirova has managed to tie her extensive concert activities with pedagogical work. Since 1983 she has been a professor at the Kazakh National Kurmangazy Conservatoire. 1997 she became rector of the Conservatoire. Due to her pedagogical activity, the Kazakh piano school has obtained a high level of performance.
Her pedagogical work has also found international recognition and she has often been invited to conduct master classes and give individual classes to young pianists all over the word.
In 1994 Mrs. Aubakirova founded a private college where students receive, along with all subjects also taught at other school, a profound tuition in music and arts. The Author’s College of Jania Aubakirova belongs to the best educational institutions of today’s Kazakhstan.
1998 Jania Aubakirova organized the first independent Music Agency in Kazakhstan, “Classica”. Since then, the Agency has signed responsible for a number of outstanding music events. Among its most successful are “Les Saisons Kazakhes en France” of 1998 and 1999, the filming and editing of 20 music video films, production of 50 CD’s of the best performers of the classical music in Kazakhstan.
The renowned Kazakh pianist Jania Aubakirova is People’s Artist of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Laureate of the State award of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Holder of Order of Arts and Letters of France, Ekaterina the Great Order of II degree.
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