Zala Kravos

: PRESS QUOTES

"Zala Kravos has already embarked on what is sure to be an astounding musical career." - Chronicle

"Already a rare pearl." - Le Quotidien

"A young lady at the piano enchanted Trier." - Trierischer Volksfreund

"A performing career that is already international enough to make her talk as if she’s an old hand." - International Piano Magazine (UK)

"The youngest pianist in the world. (...) Zala is the name to retain from the new generation of pianists." - Ritmo (ES)

"The rising star of the piano (…) Although only 16 years old, she turns out to be one of the most promising young pianists in Europe." - Koha Ditore (XK)

"Zala Kravos has already made a name for herself in classical piano in Luxembourg and beyond." - Delano (LU)

"She releases her first album, whose maturity is totally staggering." - Musiq3 (BE)

"Musical insight that goes so much beyond a ‘computerized wunderkind’, whose skills are often obtained through endless practice." - HRAudio.net (FR)

"Not a doll, but a mature musician (…) Personally, I think this pianist is one of the most promising discoveries of recent times and I very much hope that she will continue on the path she has chosen." - The New Listener (DE)

"They still exist, the so-called child prodigies. Not only in the field of natural sciences, but also in music, a few still stand out among many. Such a child prodigy is the now 15-year-old Slovenian pianist Zala Kravos." - Radio Klassik (AT)

: BIOGRAPHY

Born in Slovenia in July 2002, Zala Kravos was initiated into music from the age of three in Brussels and received her first piano lessons at five in Luxembourg, where she lives with her family. At six, she entered the Conservatory of the City of Luxembourg, where she has obtained all available diplomas in piano performance and several diplomas in music theory. From 2012 to 2016, she studied in parallel at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (Belgium) with Maria João Pires and continued with Louis Lortie until May 2018, when she passed the 'Young Artist Diploma' exam. In 2019, she was accepted – despite her young age – in the BA (Hons) programme at the Royal College of Music in London, where her piano professor is Norma Fisher. Since 2010, she regularly participates in master classes with internationally renowned pianists.

In 2009 and 2011, she won gold medals at the Luxembourg Competition for Young Soloists. She is also laureate of several international competitions in France, Luxembourg, and the USA.

Since the age of six, she has been making dozens of public appearances every year and has already performed in sixteen countries, including China and the USA. She has participated in several festivals in Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Kosovo, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland.

For about ten years now, she has been giving solo recitals and playing regularly as soloist with orchestras in several European countries. More recently, she has started playing chamber music as well as piano duo repertoire with her younger brother Val.

In December 2018, she was nominated for the prize ‘Export Artist of the Year’ in Luxembourg (as the only teenage performer until now).

In 2017, at fourteen, she recorded in Germany her first solo album, which has been very well received by the critics and the media in seven European countries.

In 2013, she had already recorded two impromptus (Schubert and Chopin) for the jubilee CD marking the 150 years of the UGDA, Luxembourgian music education association.