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“Music is language, and language is music,” she said. “They reflect history, traditions, beliefs. It helps us open our minds to new ideas, new ways of looking at the world.”
Feature: Las Vegas musician began playing piano at 5 — in Siberia
Las Vegas Review-Journal · 2019
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“Dr. Maria (Masha) Pisarenko is actively involved in the cultural life … as a performer, educator and artistic director. She has performed on some of the most prestigious stages of the world, including in Russia, Asia, Europe, and the United States.”
Clark County, Nevada · 2019
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“The Siberian-born artist has performed throughout Europe, and has won various competitions before coming to the United States. She has been a featured performer on Nevada Public Radio and a guest soloist with numerous orchestras.”
Salt Lake Tribune
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“With a career that began with international acclaim at a young age and has continued to be successful … a mature, highly experienced performing artist, [she] is an individual that can render the sincere emotion and deep feelings of the composers.”
Southern Utah University
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Pianist Maria Pisarenko wins Reno Chamber Orchestra College Concerto Competition — the prize was to appear as featured soloist with the orchestra.
This Is Reno · 2010
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“Siberian-born Pisarenko trained at the Russian Academy of Music and performed in Europe before moving to the States.”
Intimate, masterful and free
Las Vegas Sun · 2008
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Russian Seasons to perform next month — a program of Russian chamber and vocal music she presented and played.
Las Vegas Review-Journal · 2019
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Nevada Public Radio (88.9 KNPR)
Interview — November 2012, and again November 2009
Reno Public Radio (KUNR FM)
Interview — February 2010; Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 with the Reno Chamber Orchestra, broadcast March 2010
Channel One Russia
National television — performance and interview at the First International Tchaikovsky Youth Competition
Radio of Russia, Irkutsk
Interviews — 2016 and 2004
Angarsk Radio
Interview
Vesti Irkutsk
Solo recital at the Irkutsk Philharmonic, and Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the Irkutsk Philharmonic Orchestra — broadcast, with interview
The full account of my training — the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory, the Gnessins Academy, the doctorate, and the teaching line that runs back to Liszt — is on the about page.
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