Historical
Piano Concerts Series
About
the Musicians
Tanya Blaich
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Born
in Walla Walla, Washington, Tanya Blaich made her concerto debut with
the Washington-Idaho Symphony at age 15. In addition to recent North
American performances in Alice Tully Hall, NEC's Jordan Hall, and the
Banff Centre for the Arts, Blaich has performed extensively in recital
halls in Austria, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, and France. She has
performed for the Piatigorsky outreach program in New England, and has
been heard on WGBH, Austrian National Radio, and the WCRB Radio
Performance Series.
Currently a faculty member of New England
Conservatory’s collaborative piano and voice departments, Blaich
directed the Undergraduate Opera Studio from 2006 to 2009. She is also
the co-coordinator of the Liederabend Program at NEC. As a guest
artist, she has given recitals and master classes at Dickinson,
Dartmouth, and Atlantic Union Colleges and Columbia University, and has
also performed with members of the Lydian String Quartet at the
Emmanuel Music Schumann Series in Boston, and at Brandeis University.
Blaich also appeared with members of the Miro and Colorado Quartets, as
well as soprano Sari Gruber at the Skaneateles Chamber Music Festival.
In 2010 she served as coach and rehearsal pianist for the Boston
Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood performance of Mozart’s Entführung aus
dem Serail, and for the past two summers Tanya has taught at the Summer
Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice at NEC. In Vienna,
Blaich coached and accompanied for Kammersängerin Hilde Roessel
Majdan's voice studio at the Goethe Conservatory.
Tanya Blaich
attended the University Paris-Sorbonne, and graduated from Walla Walla
College with high honors, studying humanities, French, and music. After
earning her diploma with distinction from the Vienna Conservatory in
vocal accompaniment and chamber music, she completed both her M.M. and
D.M.A. from New England Conservatory. She was the recipient of the
Hannah Adler Scholarship in Vienna, and the Natica Righter Williams
Endowed Scholarship at NEC. Blaich has worked with such distinguished
artists as Walter Berry, Thomas Quasthoff, Gundula Janowitz, and
Norbert Brainin among others. In collaboration with baritone Klemens
Geyerhofer, Blaich won the top prize at the 2000 Robert Schumann
Competition in Germany.
As
the Blaich/Leverett Duo, Tanya Blaich and Monica Jakuc Leverett have
been playing together since 2009. They have appeared in a number of
Chamber Music at Wistariahurst concerts in Holyoke, MA and in other
Massachusetts venues. They met doing the Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes
and have a musical friendship which includes duets, Tanglewood
concerts, and hikes in old growth forests.We welcome her to our concert series.