A native of New York, pianist Barbara Podgurski holds a bachelor of music degree in piano performance, and a master of music degree in both piano performance and theory from the Mannes College of Music, piano studies with Martin Canin, Thomas Sauer, and Fiorella Canin. Ms. Podgurski has performed as soloist and chamber musician in the United States, Canada, and Europe. She has been featured on WQXR's Young Artists Showcase, WNYC's "Soundcheck", a live broadcast on WQED of a concert for the Steinway Society of Western Pennsylvania, and was a guest on WPLN Nashville's "Live from Studio C." Ms. Podgurski has worked with artists including Diane Walsh, Seymour Lipkin, Jeannine Dowis, Bernadine Blaha, Kevin Fitz-Gerald, Marc Durand, Jacob Lateiner, Peter Basquin, Barry Snyder, Janina Fialkowska, Byron Janis, David Krakauer, Madeline Shapiro, Laurence Lesser, Steven Isserlis, Colin Carr, David Finckel, Joel Krosnick, Pamela Frank, the late Barbara Karakauer and Leon Pommers, and members of the Orion, Borromeo, and Brentano String Quartets. An active proponent of new music, Barbara has worked with composers Lukas Foss, Martin Bresnick, and Earle Brown. She has collaborated with renowned cellists Paul Tobias, Marcy Rosen, and Manfried Stilz, violinist Lorand Fenyves, pianists Diane Walsh and Seymour Lipkin, and with flutist Harold Jones. Summer festivals include the Banff Arts Festival, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, and the Academie Franco-Americaine in Provence.

Ms. Podgurski made her Carnegie Hall debut at Weill Recital Hall in 2002 as a member of the Arabella Piano Trio. Her trio was the 2001 winner of the Artists International Competition special prize in the chamber music category. She has performed as soloist and collaborative pianist at Merkin Hall, the Liederkranz Foundation, Steinway Hall, Steinway Galleries, the Caramoor Center for the Arts, Donnell Livrary, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the German Consulate, Trinity Church, National Arts Club, the University Club, Yale University, St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia University, the Flushing Town hall as a founder and director of the series "Piano and Friends." Ms. Podgurski is currently on the board of directors of Musica Reginae, a musical foundation devoted to bringing music and the arts to concert spaces and schools in the boroughs of New York. In 2004, Ms. Podgurski performed at Carnegie's Weill Hall under the auspices of the Armenian Prelacy and Musical Armenia, Trinity Church Concerts at St Paul's Chapel, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was a semi-finalist in the 2004 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition as a member of the Leicester Piano Trio. A DMA candidate as of 2005 at the CUNY Graduate Center, Barbara studies with Martin Canin.

Barbara is currently on the faculty of the Mannes College of Music, Hunter College, and the Music Conservatory of Westchester in New York.

Upcoming Concert:

Feb. 23, 2006
Miami, Florida