Armenian-born Marianna Shirinyan is one of the most creative and sought-after pianists in Europe today. Her vibrant and virtuosic musicianship puts her in demand, both as soloist and as chamber musician. Shirinyan plays with great sensitivity, understanding, technical brilliance, and beauty of tone, which allows her to offer a wide range of repertoire. Her love for the music and her joy in sharing it with a larger audience are apparent in her performances.

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She has received the Danish Broadcasting Corporation's prestigious P2 Award for her contribution to Danish music life, as well as the Critics' Prize of the Association of Danish Critics. She is a frequent guest at a string of international music festivals, among them the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Bodensee Festival, Schwetzinger Festspiele, MDR Summer Music Festival, and Festspillene i Bergen.

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Marianna has garnered a reputation as a leading pianist of her generation through solo appearances with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Oslo, Helsinki, and Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestras, Potsdamer Kammerakademie, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, among others. She has enjoyed collaborations with conductors such as Lawrence Foster, Zoltán Kocsis, Antonello Manacorda, Jun Märkl, Daniel Raiskin, Lan Shui, Thomas Søndergård, Krzysztof Urbański, and Joshua Weilerstein.

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Marianna Shirinyan has a bright discography. One of her later releases, the Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra by Louis Glass, which she recorded together with the Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz under the baton of Maestro Daniel Raiskin, was awarded the P2 Prize of Danish Radio. Marianna's latest release, Rachmaninoff Suites for Two Pianos, together with her former student Dominik Wizjan, released on Orchid Classics, has been highly praised by reviewers and listeners alike.

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Marianna is a professor of piano at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and guest professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, in addition to curating several chamber music festivals across Europe.