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Clara Biermasz (30st of march 1981) is a Dutch pianist and piano pedagogue based in Vienna. Her grand-uncle was violinist Louis Biermasz, student of Eugène Ysaye, who was concertmaster of the  de Paris and member of the Crickboom Quartett, consisting of Matthieu Crickboom, Léon van Hout and Joseph Jacob. Her grand-aunt is painter Maria (Mies) Biermasz (1910-1987).

Early years and studies

Clara started to play the violin at the age of 4 and the piano at the age of eleven. Biermasz studied at the Academy of the Arts in Utrecht, at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She completed her Master of Arts with distinction in 2012. Career

Clara often performs worldwide as a soloist, a chamber musician and as a lied accompanist. Clara worked together with cellists like Pieter Wispelwey, Johannes Moser, Adam Javorkai & Reinhard Latzko, tenor Ramón Vargas, mezzo-soprano Karin Strobos, writer Jan Brokken and members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

She performed at the following venues: in the Wiener Konzerthaus, at the Beethoven Festival Wien, at the Chopin Festival in Gaming (Austria), at the Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice, the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, the Chopin Centre in Szafarnia (Poland), the Chopin Center in Hamburg & Darmstadt (Germany), the Dutch Embassies in Vienna, Cairo and Muscat, 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’ in Vicenza.

Biermasz 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 and as a honorary president at the International Chopin Competition in Tangshan, China.

She has held masterclasses for the Kodály Society Wales (England) and the Masterclasses Gutenstein (Austria).

Clara Biermasz has been the scholarship-holder of the Cultuurfonds and the Willem Mengelberg Foundation.

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

Clara currently lives in Vienna, with her husband, cellist Adam Javorkai and her two sons, Ruben (9)and Aron (6)