Angela Yoffe, Neighbor

Pianist, producer, and educator, Angela Yoffe, is widely admired for her dazzling musicianship and passion for music education. Yoffe is the founder and executive director of the North Shore Chamber Music Festival and the Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund, which provides support, guidance and inspiration to gifted young artists from around the world at the early stages of their careers.

Yoffe is also founder of the Collaborative Piano Class at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. Her educational EMA program has led collaborative projects with the Betty Haag Academy of Music, Bright Stars Chicago, International Center on Deafness and the Arts and the Lurie Children’s hospital.

Angela Yoffe has performed as a chamber musician and recitalist in New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, London, Berlin, Paris, Tel Aviv, Geneva, Rome and Tokyo among others. She has appeared as soloist with the Seattle Symphony, the Omaha Symphony, SWR Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony and with New York’s Jupiter Symphony under the batons of Andrey Boreyko, Gerard Schwarz, Jens Nygaard, and other leading conductors. Yoffe has been invited to perform at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, Lockenhaus Festival in Austria, Festival de Radio France, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Colmar Festival in France, MIDEM Festival, Ravinia Festival, Pablo Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, the Schwetzingen Festspiele, and the Bantry Festival in West Cork.

Angela Yoffe’s extensive discography on BIS and Koch labels includes wide range of repertoire from Beethoven to world premiere recordings of new works of Lera Auerbach and Gita Kancheli.

Ms. Yoffe was born in Riga, Latvia into a family of highly respected musicians. After studying in Latvia and Israel, she continued with Joaquín Achúcarro and Jonathan Feldman in the United States and was an assistant to Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School of Music.