RICHLAND CONCERT ASSOCIATION
Schedule
February
16, 2025 – Varshavski & Shapiro Piano Duo @ Seventh-day Adventist Church, 26625 Crestview Drive,
Richland Center, WI
Varshavski & Shapiro: February 16, 2025
“A piano duo that can charm even the most versed music lovers” (Gazeta Krakowska, Poland), the Varshavski-Shapiro Piano Duo is comprised of pianists Stanislava Varshavski and Diana
Shapiro, who began playing together in 1998. Since then, they have gone on to
capture the top prizes at numerous competitions, including the most prestigious
competition for piano duos – the Murray Dranoff
International Piano Competition in Miami. A winner of the Astral Artists’ 2012
National Auditions, the Varshavski-Shapiro Piano Duo
also won first prizes at the Italy’s XV Piano Competition “Rome 2004,” the
Jerusalem’s Kol HaMusica
Young Artists Competition, the Israel Chamber Music Competition, the XIII
Schubert Competition in the Czech Republic, and the First International Piano
Duo Competition in Bialystok, Poland.
The Varshavski-Shapiro Piano Duo has performed in such
distinguished venues as the HKAPA Concert Hall in Hong Kong, Henry Crown Symphony
Hall in Jerusalem, Teatro Valle in Rome, and Lincoln
Theater in Miami. They have appeared with the Radio Orchestra in Munich, the
Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Warsaw
Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Miami’s New World Symphony. Outside of their
current home base in Wisconsin and Illinois, the duo has recently given
concerts in Georgia, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Texas, where they
performed Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos with the Wichita Falls Symphony
Orchestra.
The Duo has recorded
for the Bavarian Radio, the Radio 4 of Hong Kong, the Israeli National Radio
and TV, and the New York’s WQXR. They have recently produced a CD in
collaboration with the Wisconsin Public Radio. The performances were also
broadcast live on WPR and recorded for a documentary film, presented on
Wisconsin television.
As music educators, Varshavski and Shapiro frequently present lectures and
master classes across the United States. In 2016, they have been invited to
showcase at the National Conference of the Chamber Music America and served as
judges at the Chicago International Competition for Piano Duos.
Both Ms. Varshavski and Ms. Shapiro hold Bachelor’s and Master’s
degrees from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where they studied with
a legendary Israeli duo Alexander Tamir–Bracha Eden. They continued their education under renowned
American pianist Victor Rosenbaum, and in 2011 both pianists completed Doctoral
degree studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ms. Shapiro is an
Assistant Professor of Piano and a Chair of the Music Department at the Silver
Lake College and Ms. Varshavski is a Director of
Education at the Holy Family Conservatory of Music.
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