Irina Gres graduated from the P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow as a concert pianist, chamber musician and piano teacher. Here she gained relevant experience through extensive concert performances and collaboration with concert and opera singers. After her graduation she worked as a répétiteur and piano accompanist for professional singing, as well as for choir and instrumentalists. Since 2010 Irina Gres has been a member of the teaching staff of the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. Since 2022 she teaches as a lecturer for accompaniment at the International Music Academy Anton Rubinstein in Düsseldorf.