Ma­lika
Ma­mino­va

Ma­lika Ma­mino­va (b. 1986 in Sa­int Pe­ters­burg, Rus­sia) is a per­cussi­onist and per­former, ba­sed in Co­log­ne. Her work mo­ves ac­ross orc­hes­tral and cham­ber mu­sic, con­tempo­rary re­per­to­ire and mu­sic the­at­re, sha­ped by an open­ness to dif­fe­rent per­forman­ce si­tu­ations and for­mats. Along­si­de her work in es­tabli­shed con­cert set­tings, she is in­te­res­ted in ex­panding con­cert for­mats and in con­tempo­rary mu­sic the­at­re, par­ti­cular­ly in pro­jects that bring to­get­her dif­fe­rent mu­sical and per­forma­tive app­ro­ac­hes wit­hin a sing­le per­forman­ce con­text.

She per­forms in­terna­ti­onal­ly as a so­lo­ist, orc­hes­tral and cham­ber mu­sici­an, ap­pe­aring in both tra­diti­onal con­cert prog­rammes and sta­ged, in­terdis­cipli­nary con­texts. Her ar­tistic path inc­lu­des col­la­bora­ti­ons with le­ading mu­sici­ans such as Ma­riss Jan­sons, Pe­ter Eötvös, He­inz Hol­li­ger, Ste­ve Re­ich, Te­odor Cur­rent­zis, Ca­rola Ba­uck­holt and Ma­nos Tsan­ga­ris.

Ma­lika stu­di­ed at the Rims­ky-Kor­sa­kov Con­serva­tory in Sa­int Pe­ters­burg, at the Hochs­chu­le für Mu­sik Det­mold, and at the Orc­hes­terzent­rum NRW, and ga­ined furt­her orc­hes­tral ex­pe­ri­en­ce with en­semb­les inc­lu­ding the ORF Aca­demy, the Mah­ler Cham­ber Orc­hes­tra, the Zu­rich Cham­ber Orc­hes­tra, Bi­ele­feld Phil­harmo­nic Orc­hes­tra and Mu­sicA­eter­na Orc­hes­tra.

Ma­lika is a mem­ber of the Ne­der­lands Bla­zers En­semb­le, known for its gen­re-cros­sing con­cert prog­rammes and strong pre­sen­ce on in­terna­ti­onal sta­ges. To­get­her with her sis­ter, com­po­ser and pi­anist Da­ri­ya Ma­mino­va, she de­velops the MA­MI NO­VA Pro­ject, fo­cusing on col­la­bora­tive and sta­ged mu­sical for­mats. In con­tempo­rary mu­sic, she has wor­ked with en­semb­les such as Mu­sik­fabrik, En­semb­le Ga­rage, En­semb­le Re­sonanz and No­tabu En­semb­le. She has ap­pe­ared at ma­jor ve­nu­es inc­lu­ding the Elb­phil­harmo­nie Ham­burg, Ber­lin Phil­harmo­nie, Co­log­ne Phil­harmo­nie, Con­cert­ge­bo­uw Ams­ter­dam, Wi­ener Kon­zert­ha­us, Al­te Oper Frank­furt, Phil­harmo­nie Lu­xem­bo­urg and ot­hers.