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Classical Concert Series at Middletown Library

The Middletown Township Public Library and the Monmouth Conservatory of Music resume their Classical COncert series with painist Victoria Korchinskaya-Kogan.

According to the website, "Korchinskaya-Kogan, 28, who is of Canadian nationality and resides in Moscow, represents the third generation of musicians in her family. She began taking piano lessons at the age of five. Since the age of thirteen, she has given solo concerts and played with orchestras in Russia and abroad. At the age of seventeen, she enrolled at Moscow Conservatory, where she studied under Lev Vlasenko, Sergei Dorenski, and Pavel Nersessian. In 1998, Korchinskaya-Kogan was a prizewinner at the Tchaikovsky Competition. At the 2000 Andorra International Piano Competition, the 2001 Stravinsky International Competition for Young Musicians in the USA, and the 2005 Gyeongnam International Music Competition, she received first prize. Korchinskaya-Kogan also took second prize at the 2002 International Piano-e-Competition. She has been studying at the acclaimed International Piano Academy Lake Como since 2004."

The event is free and open to the public.

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