Liudmila Georgievskaya

An internationally acclaimed concert pianist, recording artist, and pedagogue, Dr. Liudmila Georgievskaya has been praised for her “absolute art, technique, and musicality” (Scherzo Magazine, Spain) and “a sharp, inquisitive mind shaping the performance” (The Guardian, UK). Winner of top prizes in over a dozen national and international piano competitions, she has performed in Russia, Italy, Spain, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, France, the Netherlands, England, Hungary, Cuba, Colombia, Panama, and across the United States. Her performances have been broadcast on radio and television in Russia, the United States, Uzbekistan, Italy, and Vatican City. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras across Russia, Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Her first solo CD, released by Odradek Records and featuring works by Beethoven and Schumann, received widespread acclaim from the international press and won two Global Music Awards. Subsequently, she recorded her second album, Inner Impressions, featuring piano works by Tchaikovsky, Mompou, and Rodrigo, followed by her third CD devoted to piano works by living composers, titled Elegies and Visions.

In addition to her solo career, she often performs in piano duos with her husband, Thomas Schwan, and her sister, Olga Georgievskaya. She frequently champions contemporary music and is a long-time member of Voices of Change, one of the most distinguished new music ensembles in the United States.

An inheritor of the Russian piano school, she studied in Moscow with Tatiana Galitskaya and Liudmila Roschina, both students of the legendary Russian pianist Samuil Feinberg, himself a pupil and disciple of Alexander Goldenweiser. She graduated summa cum laude from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, completed a post-graduate course with Sergio Perticaroli at the Santa Cecilia National Academy in Rome, and earned her artist certificate from Southern Methodist University with Joaquín Achúcarro. She completed her doctorate in piano performance under Pamela Mia Paul at the University of North Texas.

Liudmila Georgievskaya expresses her lifelong dedication to music through a busy performance and teaching schedule. As Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of North Texas in Denton, she is deeply committed to providing her students with the strongest musical and technical training as well as with a sense of humanity, understanding of tradition, and appreciation of the art. She maintains an active international performing career, gives masterclasses and serves on piano competition jury panels worldwide. www.liudmilageorgievskaya.org

Selected Reviews

“Transcendent in her search for the universal[...]Georgievskaya gives a pure, correct, elegant interpretation[...]her approach to Beethoven's classicism is very accurate, variations like the fourth one are executed in a pristine way, and the runaway finale borders on perfection” Ritmo

“Her subtle way of shaping and differentiating lines works miraculously” Pizzicato

“Light-fingered, unrhetorical and supremely articulate playing[...]What a joy is this performance” Herald Scotland

“In Ginastera's Danzas Argentinas (1937) pianist Liudmila Georgievskaya delivered driving, pounding rhythms with pizzazz, dreamy music with poetry” Dallas Morning News

“She plays Beethoven’s fifteen Eroica Variations almost seamlessly[...]She has perfect balance in the canon in variation VII and she crosses hands so smoothly in VIII and XI that you’d swear you could hear three octaves at once[...]The last movement’s complex fugue on the simple theme has the Russian pianist at her most brilliant” Words and Music

“Georgievskaya was an exemplary messenger of Beethoven's pianism, delivering some stupendous dynamic contrasts and achieving a delightful sonority in pianissimo[...]great sound control in pianissimo as well as a stunning interpretative security[...]she knew well how to express the lyricism of this work submerging the audience in a game of contrasts and virtuosity of great beauty[...]Georgievskaya left many people astounded while achieving the sound climax at vertiginous speed and without apparent effort” Scherzo Magazine