Eugenie Russo

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Eugenie Russo (born November 14, 1954 in New York City ) is an American - Austrian pianist .

Life

Eugenie Russo studied at the Conservatory of Oberlin (Ohio) at Jack Radunsky before at the University of Music and Performing Arts her studies with Carmen Graf and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Elisabeth Leonskaya continued. She completed her studies in 1982 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Hans Graf .

She has lived in Vienna since 1976 and was head of the keyboard department at the Josef Matthias Hauer Conservatory in Wiener Neustadt from 1991 until it closed in 2010 , where she was also head of a master class for piano. She has been a professor at the Vienna International Pianists Academy in Vienna since 1997 and is also a guest lecturer at several colleges and universities in North America.

Russo played numerous solo concerts in Germany , England , Finland , Italy , Japan , Austria, Poland , Russia , Spain , Czechoslovakia , Turkey , Hungary and the USA, where she made her debut in New York's Carnegie Recital Hall in 1986 .

She had solo appearances in the Great Hall of the Wiener Musikverein , in the Cappella Hall in Saint Petersburg and at international festivals such as the Béla Bartók Festival in Szombathely , the Wiener Festwochen 1988 and 2003, the Wiener Klangbogen and the Arnold Schönberg Center in June 2003 in Vienna. In 1987 and 1992 she was invited to the states of Virginia and Tennessee as "Artist in Residence".

Eugenie Russo appeared in the multi-part TV documentary "Bernstein & Beethoven" for PBS - Unitel and recorded three solo albums for the mechanical Disklavier for the Yamaha Corporation in Tokyo .

Radio and television recordings for ORF , Saarlandischer Rundfunk , Leningrad TV, Czech Radio, NTV (Turkey) and PBS in New York City complement her artistic activities.

Discography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eugenie Russo at www.paladino.at , accessed on May 16, 2016
  2. ↑ Diploma thesis Structural Change at the Austrian Conservatories under public law ... by Ursula Rumpler, pp. 44–72.
  3. ^ Wiener Musiksommer (Klangbogen) in the Oesterreichischen Musiklexikon , accessed on May 26, 2016
  4. ^ Artist portrait on Bock's Music Shop , accessed on May 26, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Russo, Eugenie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Austrian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City