Gourari received her first
piano education at the age of five from her parents, professors at the Kazan Academy of Music. In 1979 she performed her first public concert. In 1990 she relocated together with her parents to
Germany in order to study at the
Hochschule für Musik with Ludwig Hoffmann in
Munich. In 2001 she played a
lead role in
Werner Herzog's movie
Invincible. Gourari performed extensively in
solo or with
orchestras under
conductors such as
Lorin Maazel or
Zubin Mehta. == Competitions ==