Daria Ionkina took part in a few music projects as a soloist in Saint-Petersburg Music House during 2018. One of these projects was “River of talents”, which gave her the opportunity to play with the State symphony orchestra named after V.Safonov. The end of 2018 was marked by participating in the Piano Marathon, which took place in the Mariinsky Concert Hall.

In 2016 Daria Ionkina graduated Moscow State Conservatory named after P.Tchaikovsky with professor Elena Richter and also Conservatorium van Amsterdam with professor Naum Grubert. From 2016 till 2018 Daria was a postgraduate student in Moscow State Conservatory.

During a few years Daria Ionkina took part in the international master-classes with such professors as Dmitri Bashkirov, Boris Petrushansky, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Asaf Zohar, Enrico Pace, Epifanio Comis, which took place in Russia, the Netherlands, Israel, Italy.

Daria Ionkina is a laureate of many international competitions:
– Viva-Music International competition (2019, Riga, 1st prize)
– I Open Piano Competition of the Moscow Music Society (2019, Moscow, 2nd prize)
– 2nd International competition “Musica classica” (2019, Ruza, 2nd prize)
– International competition of young pianists, duo-pianists and chamber ensembles named after Maria Yudina (Saint-Petersburg, 1st prize)
– International competition named after Dmitry Kabalevsky (Moscow, Grand-prix chamber ensemble category and special prize)
– XVI International chamber music competition (Jurmala, 1st prize)
– 6 Europaischer Kammermusikwettbewerb Karlsruhe (2nd prize)
– International piano competition «Premio Roberto Melini» (Trento, Italy, special prize «Family of R.Melini»)
– International competition «IMKA» (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1st prize)
– International piano competition dedicated to music of F.Schubert (Moscow, 1st prize)