A French pianist born in 1998 to Burundian and Ukrainian parents, Mirabelle Kajenjeri had the opportunity to highlight this diversity as a guest speaker at TEDx Roubaix, an international event.
She graduated from the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover in the class of Ewa Kupiec and from the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles in the class of Mikhaïl Faerman. Her teachers have included Lorenzo Gatto, Olga Zolotareva, Ning Kam and Elizabeth Degrenand.
Her talent has been rewarded with prizes at numerous international piano competitions, including first prize at the Santa Cecilia Competition in Porto (2021), 2nd prize at the Kissinger Klavier Olymp (2023), and semi-finalist at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition. She is a scholarship holder of the Fondation Gautier Capuçon, Fondation Safran, Wilhelm Kempff Foundation, and Lieven Piano Foundation in Vienna.
Mirabelle Kajenjeri performs regularly in Europe as part of festivals such as Flagey Piano Days, Lille Piano Festival, Festival Piano Campus, Festivals de Wallonie, Kissinger Sommer and collaborates with various orchestras including Orchestre Cordes 21, Orchestre de Picardie, Orchestra Filarmonica Pugliese, Brandenburgische Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa.
Currently completing her postgraduate studies at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien with Anna Malikova, she will be artist-in-residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium from the 2024/2025 season. September 2022 saw the release of her first album, Étincelles, in collaboration with the KNS Classical label.
