Born December 30, 1960 in Moscow. Her father is the famous cellist Valentin Berlinsky, founder of the Borodin Quartet.
She began playing the piano at the age of 5 and went on to study at the Moscow Conservatory.
At 14, she played with the Borodin Quartet, and at 15, made her orchestral debut, touring throughout the USSR.
At 14, she starred and sang in Valentin Selivanov's film "The Great Cosmic Voyage". Despite the success of her performance in the film, she turned down numerous offers to star or sing in other films; she wanted to devote herself to learning the piano.
At 15, Lyudmila Berlinskaya entered the inner circle of Sviatoslav Richter, considered her spiritual mentor. She was his page-turner and shared the stage with him in 1985 during a four-hand concert, and replaced him in Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw.
In the early 1990s, she moved to Paris with her second husband, Anton Matalaev (first violin of the Anton Quartet), winner of a Grand Prix at Évian.
She performed notably with Mstislav Rostropovich and received the offer to create a festival via Madame Chirac, wife of the mayor of Paris: the Salon Musical Russe.
She founded the Printemps Musical in Paris in 2001.
She taught at the École Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred-Cortot" for over a decade.
In 2009, she founded the Berlinsky Association in tribute to her father.
Since 2011, she has formed a highly acclaimed piano duo with French pianist Arthur Ancelle. They have founded festivals (La Clé des Portes, Rungis Piano-Piano Festival), a dedicated academy (Académie Piano-Piano), and a specialized class at the École Normale de Musique de Paris (since 2023).
