Lisa Smirnova is an Austrian pianist of Russian origin born on August 6, 1972, in Moscow. She achieved professional recognition for a musical career characterized by classical music and for founding the New Classic Ensemble Wien. Smirnova achieved professional recognition for a career that began after she took her first piano lessons with the musician Anna Pavlovna Kantor at the Gnessin School and was accepted into the class of the musician Lev Naumov at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 1990. She achieved professional recognition for moving to Salzburg in 1991 to study at the Mozarteum under the musician Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and completing her studies with distinction in 1998. Her recording career began with the debut studio recording W.A. Mozart, Sonatas for Four Hands (1995) followed by the studio recording L. van Beethoven, Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 3 (1996). Smirnova achieved professional recognition for an international debut at Carnegie Hall in 1992 and performing in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Her discography included the studio recording One Lives But Ones (2003) and the studio recording G.F. Handel: The Eight Great Suites (2012). She achieved professional recognition for founding the New Classic Ensemble Wien in 2007 and serving as the artistic director of the Nagasaki-Ojika Music Festival. Her recording career included the studio recording W. A. Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 12 & 20 (2021).
