Tchalik Quintet
The Tchalik Quartet also performs as a piano quintet with pianist Dania Tchalik, the fifth and final member of the sibling ensemble. This fully family-based formation—exceptionally rare in today’s musical landscape—stands out for its remarkable artistic cohesion and its immediately recognizable collective sound.
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With the addition of the piano, the ensemble explores a wide-ranging repertoire and can also appear in smaller formations (duo, trio, quartet), offering great flexibility in programming.
Dania Tchalik, piano & arrangements
The pianist Dania Tchalik began his musical training at the prestigious Stolyarsky School in Odessa before settling in France. He then entered the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP), where he was awarded five First Prizes in Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue and Forms, 15th–17th-century Polyphony, and Aesthetics. During the same period, he continued his piano studies with Rena Shereshevskaya and Valery Sigalevitch, studied orchestration with composers Guillaume Connesson and Thierry Escaich, all while pursuing art history studies at the École du Louvre, graduating top of his class. His orchestrations of Debussy’s Préludes have been performed by the Orchestre National de Lyon, and he is regularly commissioned by the Tchalik Quartet for arrangements that are performed on major stages. Since 2003, he has been a professor of harmony at the Conservatoire and the Académie Supérieure de Musique in Strasbourg.
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Dania Tchalik maintains an active career as a concert pianist, appearing at various festivals in France and abroad (Nohant Festival Chopin, Radio France Montpellier Occitanie, Auvers-sur-Oise, Concertgebouw Nijmegen, among others). He is particularly devoted to chamber music, performing both in duo with his brother, violinist Gabriel Tchalik, and in larger ensembles with his other siblings within the Tchalik Quartet.
