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NADIA WEINTRAUB, Concert Pianist USA/Israel
American-Israeli concert pianist Nadia Weintraub has established a pianistic career that is noted for its remarkable versatility. Acclaimed "remarkable and impressive" (The New York Times), “vivid and luminous with constantly renewed inventiveness, colourful and spectacular” (Le Soir), "remarkable qualities and talents of a virtuoso personality, one of the most gifted pianist of Israel" (The Jerusalem Post).
Ms. Weintraub performs a vast repertoire from the classical and grand romantics up to 21st century music. She promotes women composers and premiers contemporary music. On the occasion of Clara Schumann's Bicentennial (2019) she performed Clara Schumann's piano concerto and chamber music with members of The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. She toured throughout North America, Europe and Israel performing concerts at renowned halls such as Salla Verdi (Milan), Conservatoire de Musique (Geneva), Salle Pleyel (Paris), Lincoln Center and Madison Square Garden (New York). Weintraub was soloist with major orchestras in the United States ,Canada, Eastern and Western Europe under the baton of renown conductors. Highlights include performing two of Tchaikovsky’s piano concerti on the same evening with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra on their “Homage to Tchaikovsky”, and the Dvořák piano concerto with The Zagreb Philharmonic. Widely acknowledged as a devoted chamber musician, she is co- founder of the "Philomusica" Piano Quartet with members of The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. The quartet was mentored by Maestro Zubin Mehta, performing all the famous chamber music works on prestigious series. The State of Israel's foreign ministry invited Ms. Weintraub to perform cultural-exchange recitals in many countries including the Republic of Germany, for Ambassadors of China, United States, Israel’s Ambassadors to Singapore and Washington D.C , as well as the E.U Ambassadors to the United States in Belgium. Weintraub’s unique piano recitals have been broadcast live on Israel's classical radio "Voice of Music” and she has created festive concerts for International Women’s Day together with the Association Femme D’Europe in Brussels.
Born in New York City into a musical family, her French mother named her after Nadia Boulanger, the legendary Prof. of Composition at Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau in France. Her father, Dr. David Weintraub was a Cantor and renowned voice professor. She moved to Israel with her family as a child prodigy and she began giving concerts from a very young age. In Israel she was a pupil of Prof. Victor Derevianko. A recipient of America- Israel Culture Foundation awards, Claremont prize, laureate of the Geneva International Music Competition, she was awarded full scholarship to The Juilliard School in New York where she earned her Bachelors and Masters of Music as a pupil of the late pianist Joseph Kalichstein.
Concert program
"Un sospiro" Concert Etude in D-Flat Major S. 144/3
Liszt Lieder Transcriptions of:
Franz Schubert
- Auf dem Wasser zu singen (To be sung on the water) S.558 No.2
- Ständchen (Serenade) No.7 from Schwanengesang (Swan Song) S.560
Franz Liszt
- Am Rhein, im Schönen Strome (In the beautiful waters of the Rhine) from Buch der Lieder für Piano – Poems I, S.531 No.2
Robert Schumann
- Liebeslied, S566/R253, “Widmung” (Dedication)
From Années de pèlerinage "Italie" (Years of pilgrimage “Italy”)
- Sonetto 104 del Petrarca, Deuxième Année S. 161/4
- Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este (The Fountains of the Villa d'Este - Troisième Année S.163/5
Valse Impromptu in A-Flat Major, S. 213
Liebestraum No. 3 in A-Flat Major, S. 541
Hungarian Rhapsody No.15 in A minor “Rákóczi March” S. 244