About

Pianist and chamber musician Margarita Rovenskaya has performed extensively in the US and abroad, with recitals in Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall and Steinway Hall. Winner of the Mary Smart International Concerto Competition, Westminster Piano Concerto Competition, Connecticut Young Artist Competition, and American Fine Arts Festival, Margarita has also performed and studied internationally at the Sulzbach-Rosenberg International Music Festival in Germany and the International Academy of Music at Castelnuovo di Garfagnana in Italy, as well as festivals such as the Summit Music Festival, PianoSummer at New Paltz, Beethoven Institute at Mannes, and Round Top Festival Institute, where she was the orchestral pianist of the US premier of Frank Ticheli’s Clarinet Concerto. In 2010, Margarita also premiered Christopher Dietz’s Sonoromoro for chamber orchestra, piano and percussion. In the summer of 2014, she ran the international Summit Music Festival as General Manager, where she also performed both solo and chamber music.
Margarita especially enjoys chamber music. In summer of 2013, she performed in the Manchester Music Festival chamber series. In the summer of 2015, Margarita was Visiting Artist and Piano Fellow at the Heifetz Institute, where she coached and performed chamber music. Margarita has also performed several trios in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie hall as a winner of the Chamber Music Prize at the American Festival of Fine Arts.
Born in Ukraine, Margarita Rovenskaya began studying the piano at the age of six in Chicago. She is a graduate of MSM Pre-College, studying with Efrem Briskin, and earned her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance at Oberlin Conservatory in May 2012, studying with Peter Takacs. She earned her Masters in Piano Studies with Eteri Andjaparidze at New York University in May 2014, where she also served as Adjunct Piano Faculty. She is currently based in New York, where she regularly concertizes and enjoys teaching as piano faculty at several studios and schools.

Music

Recent solo piano repertoire:
J. S. Bach, Partita No. 5 in G major
J. Haydn, Sonata in E-flat major, No. 62
J. Brahms, Klavierstucke op. 76
S. Prokofiev, Sonata No. 5 in C major
M. Ravel, Sonatine
F. Chopin, Impromptus
F. Schubert, Moment Musicaux

Chamber Music:
L. van Beethoven, Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 5 in D major, op. 102 no. 2
L. van Beethoven, Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in F major, op. 5 No. 1
Gabriel Faure, Elegie for piano and cello, Op. 24
R. Schumann, Fantasiestucke for piano and cello, op. 73
R. Schumann, Piano Quartet in E-flat major, op. 47
R. Schumann, Piano Quintet in E-flat major, op. 44
W. A. Mozart, Piano Quartet in g minor, K. 478
C. Franck, Piano Quintet in f minor
Ernest Chausson, Piano Quartet in A major, op. 30
L. van Beethoven, “Ghost” trio in D major, op. 70 no. 1
D. Shostakovich, Piano Trio in e minor, op. 67 no. 2
M. Ravel, Piano Trio in a minor
F. Schubert, “Trout” Quintet in A major, D. 667
J. Brahms, Piano Quartet in c minor, op. 60 no. 3
F. Schubert, Trio in E-flat major, op. 100
A. Dvorak, Piano Quintet in A major, op. 81

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