Gender
Female

Sofia Kiprskaya

Biography
At the age of five, she began to study music. Graduated from the St. Petersburg State Conservatory. N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov and her graduate school (class of Anna Makarova). She studied at the Prague Conservatory and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (class of Jana Bošková). Since the 2008–2009 season she has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra, since 2011 she has been a concertmaster of the harp group. Laureate of the International Harp Competition named after. Felix Godfroy (Namur, Belgium; 1st prize and special prize "Silver Rooster"), International Harp Competition. Lily Laskin (Deauville, France; 2nd prize), Franz Josef Reinl Foundation Harp Competition (Munich; 1st prize), St. Petersburg International Music Competition. Empress Elizaveta Petrovna "Golden Harp" (I prize and special prize for the best performance of Tchaikovsky's works), the International Harp Competition named after. Martin Geliot (Paris; 1st prize and special prize of the jury chairman - composer