Pianist Laryssa Krupa to appear with New Sussex Symphony
NEWTON, N.J. - Pianist Laryssa Krupa will be guest soloist with the New Sussex Symphony performing the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 on Saturday, May 22. The all-Tchaikovsky program will be conducted by Karen Pinoci, featuring Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet" Overture and the "Sleeping Beauty" Suite.
The concert will be held at First Presbyterian Church of Newton, 54 High St., at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $10, general admission; $5, students and seniors. For more information call (973) 579-6465.
Ms. Krupa is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Fernando Laires and Leon Fleisher. She made her New York debut in 1983 at Carnegie Recital Hall.
Her professional experience includes performances with orchestras, in solo recitals with chamber ensembles in the United States, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Italy and Ukraine, where she performed as soloist with the Rome Festival Orchestra and the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra.
Ms. Krupa was co-founder and music director of the Nova Chamber Ensemble, which has held annual concert series in New York City and New Jersey since 1985, and with whom she has recorded and performed numerous American premieres.
The pianist has also had several concert tours in the United States and Ukraine with the Lysenko String Quartet of Kyiv.
Ms. Krupa frequently performs two-piano repertoire with her husband, concert pianist Alexander Slobodyanik, with whom she performed at the Australian International Chamber Music Festival, New Paltz Piano Summer in upstate New York and Merkin Concert Hall in New York City.
This fall, in October, she and Mr. Slobodyanik, as co-founders of the Morris International Festival of the Arts, which reopened at the Morristown Community Theater in Morristown, N.J., in 1994, will be honored by the Community Theater and will also take part in the celebration of the 10th anniversary of its opening.
Ms. Krupa is currently on the faculty of the County College of Morris.
Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, May 16, 2004, No. 20, Vol. LXXII
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