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Evgenia Fölsche

About

Evgenia Fölsche is a pianist with a particular focus on Romantic piano and art song repertoire. Her artistic work combines interpretative depth with analytical insight and a special sensitivity to the relationship between word and tone in art song.

In addition to her work as a soloist, she devotes herself intensively to song accompaniment, chamber music, and the conception and design of concert and festival programmes. A particular focus lies on nineteenth-century art song as well as on cyclical musical forms and contexts.

Artistic Profile

Evgenia Fölsche works regularly with singers and appears as a song accompanist and musical partner in song recitals, festival projects, and thematically conceived concert series. Her programmes are distinguished by dramaturgical clarity, stylistic precision, and a close connection between music and text.

Analytical and Artistic Mediation

In addition to her concert activities, Evgenia Fölsche also communicates musical content in written and visual form. On the work and programme pages of her website, she publishes numerous scholarly and well-founded analyses of songs, song cycles, and piano works; this is exemplified by the page “Liederkreis op. 39 – Waldesgespräch”, where musical and poetic analysis, notes on performance practice and reception, audio references, and her own artistic visualisations are brought together. This work is complemented by her specialist articles on the theme pages of the Festival der Stimmen, including “Art Song, Piano Song”, “The Semiotics of Song” and “Children’s Opera”.

Collaboration with Singers

A central focus of Evgenia Fölsche’s artistic work is her close collaboration with singers in the fields of art song and vocal chamber music. She understands the role of the pianist not as accompaniment in the narrow sense, but as that of an equal musical partner in a shared process of interpretation and creation.

In concerts, song recitals, and festival projects, she has collaborated, among others, with:

These collaborations include classical song cycles and thematic programmes featuring works by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss, as well as specially conceived concert and festival formats.

Biographical Milestones

Evgenia Fölsche is a German pianist of Russian origin living in Liechtenstein. She began playing the piano at the age of five and appeared in public at an early age. As a teenager, she won numerous prizes at national and international piano and chamber music competitions, including the International T. Nikolaeva Competition for Young Pianists and the All-Russian “New Names” Competition.

She received scholarships from the International Charitable Foundation “New Names” and from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. She completed her studies at the Russian Gnessin Academy of Music in Moscow with distinction. Further artistic impulses came from masterclasses with, among others, V. Krainev, V. Kastelskii, T. Gaidamovich, A. Bonduryansky and N. Shtarkman, and later with Igor Lazko, Peter Eicher and Lev Natochenny. At the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, she also studied vocal coaching with Professor Eugen Wangler.

Concert appearances have taken her to major concert halls in Germany, including the Gasteig, the Liederhalle Stuttgart, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Gewandhaus Leipzig and the Laeiszhalle Hamburg. In addition to solo appearances, she has performed at international festivals and on concert tours.

Concert and Stylistic Profile

Stylistically, Evgenia Fölsche convinces with playing that is rich in detail, clear and at the same time fresh: “It is a pleasure to follow the sparkling or dance-like passages, the interplay between virtuosity and simplicity.” (PIANONEWS) In the art of song, too, her piano playing is described as an artistically sustaining force: in the Vaterland review of Hugo Wolf’s Italian Songbook (9 March 2026), the piano is described as “not merely accompaniment, but motor and framework at the same time”, and Evgenia Fölsche as “the connecting force” who “shaped the miniatures into an arc”. In the review of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin (Vaterland, Julia Kaufmann, 16 March 2025), it is emphasised that she was able to differentiate “skilfully between the individual sound characters” and reacted “flexibly to the baritone’s breathing and rubato”. Thus, her pianism in both solo and song repertoire appears as precise, colourful, and dramaturgically informed musical storytelling.

Discography

On her CD “Musical Bildungsroman”, she combines works by Chopin, Schubert or Liszt transcriptions, and Liszt into a narrative musical journey. The recordings were enthusiastically received by the specialist press. Beyond this, her discography demonstrates her stylistic versatility and pianistic depth.

Competitions & Awards

As a teenager, Evgenia won major piano and chamber music competitions, including the T. Nikolaeva Competition, the 1st All-Russian Open Competition “New Names”, and the International Taneyev Chamber Music Competition. She received scholarships from the “New Names” Foundation and the Russian Ministry of Culture.

Interviews & Press

Interviews, television features, newspaper articles, and concert reviews regularly report on Evgenia Fölsche’s artistic work, her festival projects, and her commitment to art song and piano song. Her work attracted increased media attention in 2025 and 2026, particularly in connection with the Festival der Stimmen.

  • Television interview / TV feature (1FLTV) – 16 March 2026
    Feature on the song recital at the Festival der Stimmen on Liechtenstein television, in connection with the concert evening with Matthias Lika and Franz Schubert’s Winterreise.
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  • Concert review – Vaterland – 9 March 2026
    “Songbook” Lets Love and Wit Sparkle
    Review of the opening concert of the Festival der Stimmen at the SAL Schaan with Hugo Wolf’s Italian Songbook. The review highlights the dramaturgical subtlety of the cycle, the precise interplay between Katharina Ruckgaber, Johannes Kammler and Evgenia Fölsche, and the tonal and interpretative role of the piano as the evening’s connecting force.
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  • Newspaper article – Vaterland – 23 February 2026
    “The Content of the Music Is Important”
    Preview of the 2nd Festival der Stimmen, with an overview of the four concerts in Schaan and Vaduz: Hugo Wolf’s Italian Songbook with Katharina Ruckgaber and Johannes Kammler, Schubert’s Winterreise with Matthias Lika, Nacht und Träume with Maria Nazarova, and the piano recital Ausklang with Evgenia Fölsche.
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  • Television interview (1FL.LI) – 9 February 2026
    Conversation about the 2026 festival, Italian Songbook, Winterreise, Nacht und Träume, the closing concert, as well as Maria Nazarova, Matthias Lika, Katharina Ruckgaber, Johannes Kammler, and her own artistic work.
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  • Television interview (1FL.LI) – 7 March 2025
    On the Festival der Stimmen Liechtenstein 2025, Die schöne Müllerin, Gerrit Illenberger, Benjamin Russell, as well as Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Liederkreis.
  • Newspaper article – Vaterland – 18 February 2025
    “I Would Like to Make Piano Song Better Known”
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  • Concert review – Vaterland – 16 March 2025
    Enthusiastic review of the performance of Die schöne Müllerin.
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  • Review – Vaterland – December 2024
    On the Christmas children’s programme The Nutcracker at the TAK Theater.
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  • Interview – Liechtenstein Music School – 28 October 2024
    “Passing On the Love of Music”
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  • Newspaper article – Vaterland – 26 November 2024
    Report on the project The Nutcracker after Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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  • Wikipedia
    Wikipedia entry on Evgenia Fölsche