About

Tanya Stambuk. On the occasion of her debut at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Ms. Stambuk was hailed as "a player with a powerful technique, ideas of her own, and considerable promise" by the New York Times. Since then, her concert career has taken her across the United States and throughout Western and Eastern Europe.

She has performed with the Orchestre de Toulouse in France, the Virginia Symphony, Chicago Civic Orchestra in Orchestra Hall, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Bergen Philharmonic, Long Island Symphony, the Lake Charles Symphony and Rapides Symphony Orchestra in Louisiana. Locally, she has been heard as soloist with Washington’s Olympia Symphony, Yakima Symphony, Tacoma Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Washington Idaho Symphony and Oregon's Rogue Valley Symphony.

Ms. Stambuk has been heard in recital at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in Croatia, the Robert Schumann Summer Festival in Germany, and in the Auditorio Nacional Carlos Alberto in Portugal. She was awarded first prize at the Oporto International Piano Competition in Portugal.

Tanya Stambuk has made guest appearances on radio in New York City, Moscow, Croatia, and a live performance interview with Bill McGlaughlin of St. Paul Sunday of American Public Media. She has appeared on the television program entitled IN PRAISE OF WOMEN PIANISTS. Ms. Stambuk has performed at the 92nd Street Y and Merkin Hall in New York City, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, the Phoenix Recital Series in New York, Hudson Opera House in New York, the Music Academy in Philadelphia, the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago, Nordstrom Hall in Seattle, the Seasons Performance Series in Washington, Piano Series at the San Diego Art Museum, and at Brigham Young University, Texas A&M University, and the University of Hawaii. She has also performed in festivals including the Methow Chamber Music Festival, Auburn Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Series, Lopez Island Performance Community Center Series, Northwest Sinfonietta Chamber Music Series, the Camarata Series, Artists Series at the University of Southern Oregon and the Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music Series. Composer Norman Dello Joio chose her to premier his revised Fantasy Variations for Piano and Orchestra in Florida and North Carolina.

Tanya Stambuk has recorded the piano works of Norman Dello Joio on the Centaur label. Fanfare magazine exclaimed, “Stambuk performs with complete technical assurance and emotional conviction.” She also recorded the complete piano trios of composer Daron Hagen with the Finisterra Trio on the Naxos label. This recording won the Five Best American Contemporary Classical Releases by NPR. Tanya Stambuk is a graduate of the Juilliard School, (BM and MM in Piano Performance) and Rutgers University (DMA in Piano Performance). She credits Robert Turner, Sasha Gorodnitzki, and Ilana Vered as her major mentors in learning the art of piano performance. She is a Professor of Piano Performance at the University of Puget Sound. Ms. Stambuk is a Steinway Artist

Music

Any repertoire from Bach to newly composed works for solo piano. I also perform with the piano trio Finisterra and we play works from the classical, romantic and 20th century. In addition, I play for mezzo soprano Dawn Padula and we perform opera arias, art songs and musical theater selections.

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