Angela Yoffe, Piano

Biography

Admired for her outstanding musicianship, extraordinary sensitivity and virtuosity, pianist Angela Yoffe has performed in the concert halls of United States, Europe, Japan and Canada.

Ms. Yoffe was born in Riga, Latvia where she began her musical training, later immigrating to Israel, wheew she studied with Victor Derevianko in Tel-Aviv. She continued her studies in the U.S. at the Southern Methodist University. She has been a piano assistant in the violin studio of Ms. Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School, where she studied chamber music with Jonathan Feldman.

As a chamber musician and recitalist Angela Yoffe, has performed in New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, Berlin, Paris, Geneva, Rome and Tokyo. She has also appeared with the Seattle Symphony, the Omaha Symphony, SWR Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony and with New York's Jupiter Symphony under the batons of Andrey Boreyko, Gerard Schwarz, Victor Yampolsky, Sebastian Lang-Lessing and the legendary Jens Nygaard.

Angela Yoffe has received top prizes in many competitions, including the Dvarionas International Piano Competition in Lithuania. She also won the Edna Ocker Best Accompanist Award at the Corpus Christi International Competition.