VALERIA RESJAN was born into a family of musicians. She began her piano studies in Gnessin music school (Rostov-on-Don, Russia) at age 5 under the guidance of Lyudmila Malenkova and later in College of Arts with Valeria Varshavskaya.
She moved to Finland with her parents in 1990 and continued her piano studies at the Sibelius Academy with Hamsa Al-Wadi Juris and Ralf Gothóni in chamber music. In 1996-97 she got a scholarship to study at the Reina Sofía School with prof. Dmitri Bashkirov.
In 1992 Valeria Resjan won the National Maj Lind Piano Competition (Helsinki, Finland) and in 1995 she got the 1st Prize in the International Pilar Bayona Competition (Zaragoza, Spain). In 1996 she was awarded with the 4th Prize at the International Piano Competition of Montreal, where she was also granted the Special Prize as the favourite of the audience.
Valeria Resjan has performed as a recitalist, chamber musician and orchestra soloist. She has been collaborating actively with such internationally renowned musicians as Ola Karlsson, Marko Ylönen, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Jan-Erik Gustafsson, Pavel Vernikov, Elina Vähälä, and also Takács, Chillingirian, Danel and Michelangelo quartets as her chamber music partners. She has played with conductors like Leif Segerstam, Okko Kamu, Klaus Mäkelä, Enrique Garsía Asensio, Jorma Panula, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Osmo Vänskä and Sakari Oramo.
Resjan has given concerts in Scandinavia, Russia, Japan, China, Spain, Canada and the Arab Emirates. In Finland, she has made appearances in many music festivals, including the Kuhmo Chamber Music , Turku and Mänttä Music Festivals, Helsingin Juhlaviikot and Shanghai String Festival. She is often sharing the stage with her violinist son Adrián Ibañez-Resjan and her spouse cellist Ola Karlsson.
Valeria Resjan has recorded the Tchaikovsky trio and Sibelius violin pieces together with Pietari Inkinen ja Tuomas Ylinen, their trio had a concert in the Wigmore Hall of London in 2007.
Resjan is also very much in demand as an accompanist in major competitions such as Paulo and Sibelius competitions. She has been working also at Gstaad String Academy and Lichtenstein Musikakademie as a pianist at Ivan Monighetti’s masterclass.