Program and Artist Biography

Russian pianist Liudmila Georgievskaya has performed as a recitalist and a soloist with orchestras in Russia, Italy, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, France, England, Hungary, the United States, and Panama. Her performances have been broadcast on radio and television programs in Russia, Uzbekistan, Italy, and Vatican City.

Georgievskaya won top prizes and numerous awards in national and international piano competitions, including the J.S. Bach Piano Competition in Kiev (Ukraine, 1987), Adilia Alieva International Piano Competition in Gaillard (France, 2000), and Twenty-Twenty Music Competition at Hartford University (United States, 2001). From 2003 to 2007 in Italy she also won top prizes and awards at the competitions Premio Ars Nova, Città di Valentino, Giulio Rospigliosi, Riviera Etrusca, and A.Gi.Mus, Domenico Scarlatti, Pino Torinese, Rami Musicali, Lia Tortora, and Benedetto XIII Piano Prize. In 2009, she was a winner at the SMU Concerto Competition in Dallas, as well as at the Liszt-Garrison International Piano Competition in Baltimore, organized by the American Liszt Society.

In Russia, she has been a soloist of the Moscow Regional Philharmonic Organization, for which she gave numerous piano recitals in the Moscow region. In 2004, she became a soloist of the Moscow International Philharmonic Organization of Classical Music.

Ms. Georgievskaya graduated with honors in 2001 from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Her piano teachers include Tatiana Galitskaya and Liudmila Roschina, both former students of the legendary pianist and composer Samuel Feinberg. In 2005–8 she completed a post-graduate course in piano performance with Sergio Perticaroli at the Santa Cecilia National Music Academy in Rome, Italy, where in three years she gave more than 50 recitals throughout the country.

In 2010 after being awarded the Meadows Artistic Scholarship, she received the artist certificate at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, under the guidance of acclaimed pianist Joaquín Achúcarro. She is now working on her doctorate degree in piano performance under Pamela Mia Paul at the University of North Texas.

Liudmila Georgievskaya is currently on the faculty at Southern Methodist University and continues her intense concert career in Europe and the Americas.