Mirabelle Kajenjeri

Resonating Roots: My Story through Sound
A journey across continents  

From the artist: 

This recital is a personal reflection of my journey, heritage, and the musical influences that have shaped my voice. It opens with the evocative works of Viktor Kosenko and Igor Shamo, honoring the land of Ukraine through lyrical and folk-inspired melodies. Frédéric Chopin’s Ballade No. 3 serves as a bridge between cultures—He was a composer who carried multiple identities and infused his music with both nostalgia and freedom. The voyage then unfolds in shimmering waves with Maurice Ravel’s Une barque sur l’océan before culminating in Kreisler/Rachmaninoff’s Liebesfreud, a celebration of light and joy.  

Finally, I return to my roots with an improvisation on traditional and popular Burundian songs, weaving ancestral rhythms and melodies into my own pianistic expression.  

Mirabelle Kajenjeri is a French pianist “with a unique touch, manipulating some of the most challenging acrobatics with a (discreet) smile, disarmingly natural and generous,” (La Libre Belgique).

In September 2022 her first album “Étincelles” was released in collaboration with KNS Classical.

Born in 1998 to Burundian and Ukrainian parents, she recently had the opportunity to highlight this singular mix, as a guest speaker at the TEDxRoubaix (TED Talk) event.

Mirabelle’s talent has been rewarded in numerous international competitions, including First Grand Prize of the Santa Cecilia International Piano Competition in Porto (2021) and Semi-Finalist of the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition in Tel-Aviv (2023).
She is also a laureate of foundations such as the Fondation Safran (2023), the Wilhelm Kempff Foundation (2022), Lieven Piano Foundation Vienna (2021), Yamaha Music Europe Foundation (2020), and the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now (2019).

From an early age, Mirabelle performed in concerts as part of renowned festivals such as the Flagey Piano Days, the Lille Piano Festival, the Piano Campus Festival and the Festivals de Wallonie and accompanied by various orchestras in France and abroad (Orchestre Cordes 21, Brandenburgische Staatsorchester Frankfurt, and Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa).

She currently resides in Vienna, Austria, where she is pursuing a postgraduate degree at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien with Anna Malikova.

Having graduated from the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover (Master) in the class of Ewa Kupiec and from the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles (Bachelor) with Mikhail Faerman, she previously studied with Vladimir Soultanov at the Conservatoire de Roubaix and her discovery of the piano, at the age of five, was initiated by Natalia Grebennikova in Kyiv.

Alongside her career as a pianist, she is also passionate about the violin. Having studied both instruments simultaneously since childhood, Mirabelle obtained her bachelor’s degree in 2018 at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles with great distinction parallel to her piano bachelor’s degree.