Passion, high expressivity and the expansion of the harpsichord’s expressive possibilities have drawn the international press’s increasing attention to the Latvian-born harpsichordist Tatjana Vorobjova in recent years: “…She is definitely one of the most interesting harpsichordists working today. Of course her playing is incredibly virtuosic and has an incredible lightness – but that’s not the main point – it’s her beautiful cantable playing on the harpsichord.“ (WDR 3, live concert recording from April 21, 2024)
In August 2023 she had her solo debut harpsichord recital at the “Utrecht Early Music Festival”.
“…Tatjana Vorobjova delivered an outstanding interpretation…sonorous, dynamic, lively and differentiated interpretations, and she fully lived up to that.” (Johan van Veen review “The Revival of the Harpsichord”, Utrecht Festival 2023)
Tatjana Vorobjova was born in Riga (Latvia), where she began her musical education by playing the piano. She is a graduate of the Emīls Dārziņš Music Special School and the Department of Musicology at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. Her passionate interest in early music and harpsichord playing led her to study harpsichord in Oslo and Cologne with Prof. Ketil Haugsand and at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels with Hermann Stinders (Master of Music). She received additional inspiration from master classes with Robert Hill, Bob van Asperen, Frédérick Haas and Jesper Christensen.
Her particular concern, expressed in richness of sound, dynamics and sophisticated nuance, is the search for expanding the expressive possibilities of the instrument in both solo and continuo playing. Expressive cantabile harpsichord playing is at the forefront of her interpretations.
Tatjana Vorobjova lives as a freelance harpsichordist in the Cologne area. Concerts have taken her to the Cologne Philharmonic, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Konzerthaus Dortmund, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg and to many concert halls in Germany, Belgium, England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Latvia and USA.
She presented her latest solo programs at the International Festival for Early Music Cologne and the Festival Shalom-Musik Köln. In 2024, a solo recital by Tatjana Vorobjova from the Marktkirche in Detmold was broadcast on radio by Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) Cologne. In august 2023 she had her solo debut harpsichord Recital at the Early Music Festival Utrecht 2023 “Revival”.
In recent years, she has also become enthusiastic about playing the clavichord. She was a scholarship holder of the German Clavichord Society and presented a program at the Clavichord Days in Cologne in 2023, as well as her first clavichord recital in Latvia in 2025, and a” Vis-à-vis” clavichord and harpsichord program in the concert series Zentrum Alte Musik in Cologne (2025).
As a sought-after continuo harpsichordist, she regularly plays with the chamber orchestra “Sinfonietta Köln”, the “Neues Rheinisches Kammerorchester”, the baroque orchestra “Consortium Musica Sacra Köln”, Essener Baroque Orchestra and others.
Her first CD (2006) with her ensemble “Le Parnasse Musical” with works by Johann Christian Bach and W.A. Mozart was enthusiastically received by the Concerto magazine: “…the exceptional harpsichordist Tatjana Vorobjova, who comes from Riga, must be highlighted…she makes the music shine with as much fire as sensitivity, seemingly effortlessly.”
“Cembalo cantabile” was released by “Amati” in 2016 with excellent feedback from “American Record Guide” and “Toccata actuell”. “…a highly expressive interpretation… This is cantabile playing of the highest order.” (Johan van Veen, Musica Dei Donum).
The next two solo album CDs on MDG (Dabringhaus & Grimm) “Johann Krieger – Six Musicalische Partien” (2021) and “Domenico Scarlatti…ma cantabile” (2022) were received by the international press (Fanfare/USA, Crescendo/Belgium , Classic Today/Germany) and nominated for the “Opus Klassik” award.
“… A magnificent new Scarlatti recital that celebrates the poetic nature of the Scarlatti sonatas…” ( Fanfare USA).
Next album CD “J.S. Bach…con passione” (MDG, 2024) was immediately received with great interest by the press and was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award.
„…Vorobjova is able to coax an impressive range of dynamics and colours from the harpsichord…A marvellous recital.“ (Ken Meltzer, Fanfare).
Her new album “ Le Clavecin Poétique” ( MDG 2025) was recently released, recorded with the famous Colmar Ruckers Harpsichord 1624 at the Musee Unterlinden in Colmar.