Carina Stangorra
Carina Stangorra comes from a musical family that has cultivated the musical tradition for generations. She began playing the piano at the age of four and attended the Emīls-Dārziņš Special School for the Musically Gifted. She then studied piano with Ilse Graubiņa at the Latvian Academy of Music in Riga and as a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with Prof. Hans Leygraf at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). She attended master classes with György Sebók, Bruno-Leonardo Gelber, Vitaly Margulis and Renate Kretschmar-Fischer. In 1995 the "Gesellschaft zur Förderung der westfälischen Kulturarbeit e.V." in Münster awarded her the "Kulturförderstipendium der Westfälischen Wirtschaft". From 1996 to 1998, the artist was a scholarship holder of the Rhineland-Palatinate state foundation Villa Musica, where she received important chamber music impulses from renowned professors such as Martin Ostertag, Thomas Brandis, Ulf Rodenhäuser and Leonard Hokanson. In 1998 Carina Stangorra was awarded the Villa Musica Course Scholarship Prize.
Internationally she won, among others, the 1st prize at the Artur Schnabel Competition Berlin and the 2nd prize at the "International Piano Competition in Pescara" (Italy). Her diverse concert activities as a soloist, chamber musician and song accompanist as well as various radio recordings with the "SFB" and the Swiss radio "DRS2" lead her regularly to many music centers in Europe. She has been a guest at festivals such as the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.
As an official accompanist and juror, the pianist regularly participates in competitions and master classes (e.g. Kloster Schöntal, Montpellier, Palazzo Ricci Montepulciano, Konturen Brühl) and has worked with artists such as Prof. Johannes Moser (violoncello), Prof. Guido Schiefen (violoncello), Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender (violin), Prof. Berent Korfker (violin) and Prof. Petru Munteanu (violin), whose violin class she pianistically supervised at the University of Music and Theatre Rostock from 2008-2010.
Since 2006 Carina Stangorra has been a lecturer for piano and chamber music at the Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt. Since the winter semester 2013/14 she has also been a lecturer for accompaniment at the University of Music Würzburg.