Shani Diluka

A classical pianist born in Monaco on November 7, 1976 to Sri Lankan parents, Shani Diluka began learning the piano at an early age, under the tutelage of Dubravka Kovacevich at the Prince Rainier III Academy of Music. After her first recital at the age of nine, and opening for Hélène Grimaud three years later, the young musician entered the Conservatoire régional de Nice and, in 1997, the Conservatoire national supérieur de Paris, where her teachers included Georges Pludermacher, François-Frédéric Guy, Jorge Chaminé, Marie-Françoise Bucquet, Nicholas Angelich and Bruno Rigutto. A unanimous first prize opened the doors to the Fondation de Come Piano Academy, chaired by Martha Argerich. Alongside international recitals with prestigious orchestras, Shani Diluka records a series of award-winning discs for the Mirare label: Conertos for piano and Lyric Pieces by Grieg (2007), Mendelssohn: Romances Sans Paroles (2009), Beethoven: Concertos for piano and orchestra Nos. 1 & 2 (2010), Schubert: From Fragments to Stars (2016) and Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello & Piano with Valentin Erben (2016). These programs are complemented by two recitals: the eclectic Road 66 (2014), in which she performs Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Philip Glass, Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, John Cage and John Adams, then Temperaments (2017), devoted to Carl Philip Emanuel Bach and Mozart. In 2020, Cosmos: Beethoven & Indian Ragas is published, a collection in which two of the composer's sonatas are accompanied by Mehboob Nadeem's sitar. The pianist continues to expand her repertoire with the recitals The Proust Album with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris conducted by Hervé Niquet (2021), Pulse (2023), where she plays an anthology of minimalist composers (2023), then Renaissance (2025), which visits varied pieces by Monteverdi, Scarlatti, Palestrina, Corelli, Frescobaldi, Handel, Purcell and Bach.

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