Nadia Reisenberg

Nadia Reisenberg (born July 14, 1904 in Vilnius , † June 10, 1983 in New York City ) was an American pianist and music teacher .

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Nadia Reisenberg was the oldest of three sisters, her sister Anna (Newta) was born in 1906, Clara in 1911. In 1915 the family moved to Saint Petersburg , where Nadia studied piano with Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory . After the October Revolution , the family left Russia and first went to Poland. Reisenberg played there in 1921 with the orchestra of the National Philharmonic under Artur Rodziński Rimski-Korsakov's piano concerto. In the same year the family received visas for the USA and landed on Ellis Island on December 19 after a difficult sea voyage.

There they were looked after by Isaac J. "Sasha" Sherman , who gave Nadia and Clara their first opportunities to perform in private. Nadia continued her piano studies with Alexander Lambert and in 1922 played Ignacy Jan Paderewski's Polish Fantasy in Carnegie Hall in the presence of the composer. In 1924 she married Sasha Sherman; The marriage resulted in two sons: Alexander (* 1925) and Robert (* 1932) - the latter became known as a radio presenter and music critic.

Reisenberg took further piano lessons from 1930 at the Curtis Institute with Josef Hoffmann , as his assistant she worked from 1934 to 1938. Between 1938 and 1940 she played all of Mozart's piano concertos in a series of radio concerts with the WOR Radio Orchestra under Alfred Wallenstein .

From the 1950s on, Reisenberg reduced her solo activity and turned to teaching and chamber music. She taught at the Mannes College of Music (from 1955) and the Juilliard School (from 1977) and from 1960 gave several six-week courses at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem. As a chamber musician, she has appeared with the Budapest String Quartet , the clarinetist Simeon Bellison , the violinists William Kroll and Erick Friedman and the cellist Joseph Schuster .

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SURNAME	Reisenberg, Nadia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	July 14, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vilnius
DATE OF DEATH	June 10, 1983
Place of death	New York City