The Fort Lee Public Library is pleased to welcome Victoria Schwartzman for a solo classical piano performance on
Sunday, October 27th at 2pm in the meeting room. Ms. Schwartzman
will be presenting the following: Beethoven 32 variations, Schubert Impromptu
op.142, Bartok Suite op. 14 and Rachmaninov Moments Musicaux op.16. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Victoria
Schwartzman performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician. Victoria
has appeared at the Music Mountain Festival with the St. Petersburg String
Quartet, in the New York Philharmonic Ensembles series at Merkin Hall, at
Bargemusic, in the Gessner- Schocken concert series in Cambridge, WMP Concert
Hall, and the Nicolas Roerich Museum concert series in New York City. As a
member of the Yanvar Trio, she was a prizewinner in the Val-Tidone Chamber
Music Competition and a finalist in the Zinotti International Chamber Music
competition, both in Italy. As soloist with orchestra, Victoria has performed with the
Jerusalem Chamber Orchestra, the Longy School of Music Chamber Orchestra, and
the Riverside Orchestra. She has performed at the Quartet Program in
Pennsylvania, and participated in the Tel-Hai International Piano Festival in
Israel and the Lyrica Chamber Music Festival in New Jersey. Also active in the
field of opera and art song, Victoria was vocal coach and accompanist at Boston
Lyric Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, the Brevard Music Center, the Westchester
Summer Vocal Institute, and the American Institute of Musical Studies Festival
in Graz, Austria. She recently gave a master class in Russian vocal
repertoire at Queens College, New York. She is on the coaching faculty in the
Vocal Department at Montclair State University. After graduating from Jerusalem Conservatory, Victoria continued
her education at the Longy School of Music and New England Conservatory. While
pursuing various degrees in solo and chamber music performance, she was
selected to perform in master classes given by Dmitri Bashkirov, Menahem
Pressler, and Richard Goode, among others. Her principal teachers include Irina
Kivaiko, Issak Kossov, Victor Rosenbaum, Sally Pinkas, Eda Shlyam, and
Eteri Andjaparidze.
Seating is limited, children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.
