Viktoria Lakissova from St. Petersburg began playing the piano at the age of five, receiving her initial instruction in her hometown. She studied in Russia and Germany with Ekaterina Murina (St. Petersburg Conservatory) and Volker Banfield (University of Music and Theatre Hamburg), graduating with a concert diploma. Additionally, she visited masterclasses with Lev Naumov and Karl Heinz Kämmerling.

Since childhood, Viktoria Lakissova has enjoyed international success in major piano competitions worldwide. She won numerous prizes, for example in Moscow, Sydney, Athens, Marsala, Mannheim, and Bremen. In 2002, she was awarded the Ritter Prize by the Hamburg Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation for her exceptional artistic achievements.
Viktoria Lakissova sustains a successful career as a concert pianist since many years. She performs regularly both in Germany and abroad, as a soloist and with different chamber music ensembles. She has received invitations to major festivals, including the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Pro Baltika International Festival, the Bremen Piano Pur Festival, and the Tübingen International Piano Festival.
Her frequent chamber music partners include Valeri Krivoborodov, former principal cellist of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Czermak, the orchestra’s former concertmaster and her husband, violist and musicologist Mark Heinzel. She has cooperated regularly with the Shostakovitch String Quartet. Furthermore, Viktoria Lakissova has recorded several 19th-century chamber music works with various ensembles of the NDR Symphony Orchestra.
Since her orchestral debut with the Northwest German Philharmonic in 1997, Viktoria Lakissova has consistently collaborated with German symphony orchestras. Among the orchestras she has performed with are the Baden State Orchestra Karlsruhe, the Halle State Philharmonic, the Münster Symphony Orchestra, and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra.
Her first solo CD was published by Sony Classical, containing works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Ravel and Skrjabin. The CD “Hommage à Scarlatti,” released by Labor Records, New York, brings together works by Scarlatti with works dedicated to him from the 19th and 20th centuries. She recorded Mozart’s piano concerto in c minor with the Classical Philharmony Bonn and Beethovens third piano concert with the Northwest German Philharmony. Viktoria Lakissova has additionally made numerous radio and TV recordings of piano and chamber music works for a wide variety of ensembles, including broadcasts for Deutschlandradio Kultur, NDR, Radio Bremen, and Televisión Española.
From 2001 to 2008, Viktoria Lakissova was lecturer for piano at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Since December 2010, she is full-time professor of piano at the Berlin University of the Arts.
She has given piano and chamber music masterclasses in Trento, Riva di Garda and at the Hitzacker Summer Festival.

Viktoria Lakissova sustains a successful career as a concert pianist since many years. She performs regularly both in Germany and abroad, as a soloist and with different chamber music ensembles. She has received invitations to major festivals, including the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Pro Baltika International Festival, the Bremen Piano Pur Festival, and the Tübingen International Piano Festival.

Her frequent chamber music partners include Valeri Krivoborodov, former principal cellist of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Czermak, the orchestra’s former concertmaster and her husband, violist and musicologist Mark Heinzel. She has cooperated regularly with the Shostakovitch String Quartet. Furthermore, Viktoria Lakissova has recorded several 19th-century chamber music works with various ensembles of the NDR Symphony Orchestra.

Since her orchestral debut with the Northwest German Philharmonic in 1997, Viktoria Lakissova has consistently collaborated with German symphony orchestras. Among the orchestras she has performed with are the Baden State Orchestra Karlsruhe, the Halle State Philharmonic, the Münster Symphony Orchestra, and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra.

Her first solo CD was published by Sony Classical, containing works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Ravel and Skrjabin. The CD “Hommage à Scarlatti,” released by Labor Records, New York, brings together works by Scarlatti with works dedicated to him from the 19th and 20th centuries. She recorded Mozart’s piano concerto in c minor with the Classical Philharmony Bonn and Beethovens third piano concert with the Northwest German Philharmony. Viktoria Lakissova has additionally made numerous radio and TV recordings of piano and chamber music works for a wide variety of ensembles, including broadcasts for Deutschlandradio Kultur, NDR, Radio Bremen, and Televisión Española.
From 2001 to 2008, Viktoria Lakissova was lecturer for piano at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Since December 2010, she is full-time professor of piano at the Berlin University of the Arts.
She has given piano and chamber music masterclasses in Trento, Riva di Garda and at the Hitzacker Summer Festival.

From 2001 to 2008, Viktoria Lakissova was lecturer for piano at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Since December 2010, she is full-time professor of piano at the Berlin University of the Arts.

She has given piano and chamber music masterclasses in Trento, Riva di Garda and at the Hitzacker Summer Festival.