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Sophia Agranovich, Piano

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Sophia Agranovich, Piano

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Multi-award-winning pianist, recording artist, educator and artistic director, Sophia Agranovich is “a bold, daring pianist in the tradition of the Golden Age Romantics…A tigress of the keyboard” – Fanfare. Her performances are captivating audiences by the “orison of uncommon beauty” – Audiophile, “the ideal balance she achieves between the intellectual and the emotional” – Fanfare, “interpretation that dares to be different”, “magnificent shading and superior musicianship” – American Record Guide.

 

A Steinway Artist, Ms. Agranovich has performed in USA, Europe, Israel, and Canada. Recently she played solo concerts at the Pennautier Festival and Juan-les-Pins in France where she premiered compositions dedicated to her by Françoise Choveaux, and was invited to China and Brazil. Some of her prestigious venues are David Geffen Hall, Bruno Walter Auditorium and Paul Hall at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, Roerich and Metropolitan museums, Steinway Hall and gal­leries, Bargemusic, Tenri Cultural Institute, Polish Cultural Foundation, Lambert Castle, Watchung Arts Center, Salle Cortot, Théâtre Na Loba, Ehrbarsaal, Gesellschaft für Musiktheater, Kaiser Hall. She also performed at libraries and numerous colleges and universities, such as the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rubin Academy of Music, National Music Academy of Ukraine and Lviv State Conservatory. Ms. Agranovich has collaborated with Mark Peskanov, Shlomo Mintz, Christopher Collins Lee, Andrew Litton, Alexander Mishnaevsky, Andrew Lamy, Brett Deubner, Gregory Singer, Anatole Wieck, Rupam Sarmah, Lili Haydn, Hamid Saeidi, Kathleen Supove, award-winning Emmy, Grammy, and Billboard top ten musical artists, and members of the major orchestras.

 

Sophia Agranovich has released ten solo albums from 2010 through 2022, including seven on Centaur label. Her albums are charting in top 10 across all musical genres on One World Music Radio and on World Top Radio Airplay Charts. Her discography received outstanding reviews and includes ‘Romantic Virtuoso Masterpieces’ (works by Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Scriabin), ‘Franz Liszt – Bicentennial Tribute’ (‘Un Sospiro’, ‘La Campanella’, Rhapsodie Espagnole, Sonata in b minor); ‘Passion and Fantasy’ (Beethoven: ‘Appassionata’, Chopin: Fantaisie and Sonata in b minor); complete Brahms-Paganini Variations; Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Schumann-Liszt: ‘Widmung’; Schubert: ‘Wanderer’ Fantasie and Chopin: 4 Ballades; Schumann: Carnaval and Fantasie; Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie and Nocturne Op. 48 No.1, Liszt: complete Sonnetti del Petrarca, ‘Dante’ Sonata, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14; Chopin: Sonata in B-flat Minor, 4 Scherzi, Polonaise ‘Héroïque’; ‘In Celebration of 250th Anniversary of Beethoven’ (Fantasie Op. 77, Sonatas ‘Pathétique’, ‘Moonlight’, ‘Tempest’): ‘Liszt: Rhapsodies, Études and Transcriptions’ (Hungarian Rhapsodies No. 6  and No. 13, Études d’exécution transcendante ‘Ricordanza’ and ‘Mazeppa’, Schubert/Liszt StändchenErlkönigDie Forelle).  

 

Ms. Agranovich was awarded 3 Gold and 15 Silver Medals from Global Music Awards, Winner of The American Prize in the Piano Solo division, 2 Gold Medals from Prestige Music Awards, Best Classical Solo / Best Classical Album / Hall of Fame from Akademia Music Awards, 5 Best Classical Piano Albums from Clouzine International Music Awards, Best Classical Artist (2) /Best Female Classical Artist/Best Classical Recording (3) /Best Instrumental Recording from Radio Music Awards, Best Classical Recording and Hall of Fame from Indie Music Channel, 5 Platinum awards in Best Classical Pianist/Best Instrumental Artist/Best female Artist/Best Classical Music categories, 3 Gold Awards in Best Female Instrumental Artist, Best Instrumental Music, Best Performance categories and Instrumentalist of the Year from LIT International Talent Awards, Best Classical Album from One World Music Radio, Steinway Top Teacher Award, Best Classical Album – Gold at One Earth Awards, Best Instrumentalist from InterContinental Music Awards, Industry Leader and Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Awards and more. Her albums and live concerts are broadcast worldwide, most recently in Brazil on Universidade FM 106.9 “Company of the Music”, in Canada on CKWR ‘Women in Music’, Berlin, Munich, Rome, New Zealand, Ivory Coast, London, Tokyo, Osaka, Paris, Tel-Aviv, WMNR Fine Arts Radio, NPR WLPR-FM “Art on the Air”, WQXR Greene Space live with Elliott Forrest, on WWFM “Between the Keys” with Jed Distler, WWFM “Piano Matters” and WQXR “Reflections from the Keyboard” with David Dubal.

 

A native of Ukraine, Sophia Agranovich won the Ukrainian Young Artists Competition–currently Mykola Lysenko International Competition–at ten, being the youngest participant. At thirteen she performed Concerto in E minor by Chopin in Chernivtsi, Lviv and Kyiv. Her concerts were broadcast on national TV and radio stations. Her teachers in Ukraine were professors Anna Stolarevich and Alexander Edelmann, peers of Vladimir Horowitz in the class of Felix Blumenfeld and disciples of Heinrich Neuhaus. At fifteen, Ms. Agranovich entered the Juilliard School in New York City as a student of legendary professor Sascha Gorodnitzki, who himself was a student of Josef Lhevinne (peer of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin). While at Juilliard, she also studied with Nadia Reisenberg, a disciple of the St. Petersburg piano school of Leonid Nikolaev and student of Hofmann and Alexander Lambert – student of Franz Liszt.

 

Ms. Agranovich earned Bachelor and Master Degrees from the Juilliard School, holding full scholarship and a Fellowship teaching Piano Minor at Juilliard. She won First Prize in the Bergen Philharmonic Competition. After graduating Juilliard, Ms. Agranovich began working towards her Doctorate at the Columbia University, but deferred that pursuit to raise a family, which led to her additional 23-year career in Information Technology. Having earned a certification in Computer Science, she worked as a systems analyst for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company where she received the Presidential Quality Award for Computer Systems Design and Support, and later as a senior programmer/analyst/project manager/vice president at Merrill Lynch. Ms. Agranovich also studied naturopathy, traditional Indian medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, receiving certifications in Yoga, Pilates, and other holistic disciplines. She taught Yoga and Pilates at the YMCA branch.

 

Sophia Agranovich is an esteemed pedagogue, lecturer, master class clinician, adjudicator, and is a recipient of numerous teaching awards. Her students often win top prizes in regional, national and international competitions and are playing at prestigious venues and internationally. They had been accepted to Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, New York University, Mannes College  and other notable universities. Their performances were broadcast on radio and TV, including WWFM “Kids on Keys” and WQXR “Young Artists Showcase”. Ms. Agranovich is an active member of various professional music organizations, listed annually in “Who’s Who in America” and “Who’s Who in the World”, has been featured in American Record Guide, Fanfare Magazine, New York Times, The Whole Note, Broadway World, Musical America, World Culture Times and many other major publications, voting member of NARAS (GrammysR) and GrammyU mentor, Artistic Director of ‘Classicals at the Circle’ music series at the Watchung Arts Center and  a Program Chair of Music Educators Association of New Jersey.                               

 


Performances by Sophia Agranovich

Composer Title Date Action
Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude in G minor, Op. 23 No. 5 10/06/2023 Play
Franz Liszt Sonetto 104 del Petrarca 10/06/2023 Play
Franz Liszt Un Sospiro, from Trois Etudes de concert, S. 144 (practice) 10/06/2023 Play
Schubert-Liszt Die Forelle 10/06/2023 Play
Franz Liszt Mazeppa - Etude d'Execution Transcendante n°4 ( live rec ) 10/06/2023 Play
Franz Schubert Wanderer Fantasy Opus 15 10/06/2023 Play
Franz Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13 in A Minor 10/06/2023 Play
Claude Debussy L'Isle joyeuse 10/06/2023 Play
Franz Liszt Après une Lecture de Dante (Fantasia quasi Sonata) 10/06/2023 Play
Franz Liszt CD Album trailer 10/06/2023 Play
Schubert-Liszt Ständchen -Leise flehen meine Lieder, from Franz Schubert’s Schwanengesang 10/06/2023 Play
Franz Liszt Un Sospiro, from Trois Etudes de concert, S. 144 10/06/2023 Play
Franz Liszt Liebesträum No. 3 in A-flat Major 05/19/2022 Play
Franz Liszt Transcendental Étude in F minor "Appassionata" 05/19/2022 Play
Schubert/Liszt “Ständchen" (Serenade) 05/19/2022 Play
Schumann/Liszt Liebeslied "Widmung" ("Dedication") 05/19/2022 Play
Felix Mendelssohn Rondo capriccioso, in E Major, Op. 14 05/19/2022 Play
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2, 'The Tempest' (II. Adagio) 05/19/2022 Play
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2, 'The Tempest' (III. Allegretto) 05/19/2022 Play
Franz Liszt Transcendental Etude No.9 'Ricordanza' 05/19/2022 Play
Robert Schumann Fantasie in C major (part 1) 05/19/2022 Play
Franz Liszt Transcendental Etude 'Ricordanza' 05/19/2022 Play
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata No. 14 in c-sharp minor, "Moonlight", III. presto agitato 05/19/2022 Play
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in C# Minor Op 27 No 2 - Moonlight - Adagio sostenuto (1st Mov) 05/19/2022 Play
Frédéric François Chopin Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op. 53 ‘Héroïque’ 05/16/2022 Play
Felix Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses, Op. 54 (part II) 05/16/2022 Play
Felix Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses, Op. 54 (part I) 05/16/2022 Play
Franz Liszt Un Sospiro, from Trois Etudes de concert, S. 144 05/16/2022 Play
Franz Liszt Mazeppa, from Etudes d’exécution transcendante, No. 4 05/16/2022 Play
Françoise Choveaux Quatre Préludes en hommage a Chopin 08/21/2018 Play
Robert Schumann Carnaval, Op. 9 - Finale 08/21/2018 Play
Franz Liszt Après une Lecture de Dante (Fantasia quasi Sonata) 08/21/2018 Play
Frédéric Chopin Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61 08/21/2018 Play
Robert Schumann Carnaval 1. Preambule 08/21/2018 Play
Robert Schumann Fantasie in C Major (1) 08/21/2018 Play
Franz Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No.14 08/21/2018 Play
Frédéric Chopin Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48 no. 1 08/21/2018 Play
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2 'Tempest' 08/21/2018 Play
Franz Liszt Sonetto del Petrarca No.104 08/21/2018 Play
Frédéric Chopin Fantaisie in F minor, op. 49 08/21/2018 Play
Robert Schumann Schumann Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17 (3) 07/27/2015 Play
Robert Schumann Schumann Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17 (1) 07/27/2015 Play
Robert Schumann Carnaval, Op. 9 07/27/2015 Play
Frédéric Chopin Grande Valse Brillante in E-flat Major, Op. 18 10/06/2014 Play
Franz Schubert Wanderer Fantasy, Op. 15 10/06/2014 Play
Frédéric Chopin Ballade No. 4 in f minor, Op. 52 10/06/2014 Play
Frédéric Chopin Ballade No.3 in A-flat Major 10/06/2014 Play
Frédéric Chopin Ballade No.2 in F Major/A minor 10/06/2014 Play
Frédéric Chopin Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op. 23 10/06/2014 Play
Frédéric Chopin Ballade No. 4 in f minor, Op. 52 06/02/2014 Play
Alexander Scriabin Étude in D-sharp minor, Op. 8, No. 12 03/11/2014 Play
Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude Op. 23 no. 5 in g minor 03/04/2014 Play
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57, "Appassionata" 12/28/2013 Play
Frédéric Chopin Fantaisie in F minor Op.49 12/28/2013 Play
Johannes Brahms Variations on the Theme by Paganini (Books I and II - complete) 12/28/2013 Play
Robert Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op.26, Intermezzo 12/28/2013 Play
Frédéric Chopin Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp Minor, Op. 66 07/09/2013 Play
Frédéric Chopin Fantaisie in F minor Op.49 07/09/2013 Play
Alexander Scriabin Etude in d-sharp minor, Op. 8 No. 12 07/09/2013 Play
Robert Schumann Widmung, Op. 25, No. 1 07/09/2013 Play
Franz Liszt Transcendental Etude No. 10 in F minor 07/09/2013 Play
Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude in G minor, Op. 23 No. 5 11/02/2012 Play
Robert Schumann Études Symphoniques, Op. 13 11/02/2012 Play
Frédéric Chopin Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op. 58 (Allegro maestoso) 11/02/2012 Play
Frédéric Chopin Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op. 58 (Largo and Finale) 11/02/2012 Play
Franz Liszt Liebestraum No. 3 A flat major 07/11/2012 Play
Alexander Scriabin Alexander Scriabin: Etude in D# minor, Op. 8 No.12 07/11/2012 Play
Frédéric Chopin Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op. 23 07/11/2012 Play
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata No.21, Op.53 'Waldstein': 2) Introduzione; 3) Rondo, Prestissimo 07/11/2012 Play
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata No.21, Op.53 'Waldstein': 1) Allegro con brio 07/11/2012 Play
Franz Liszt Sonata in B minor (part 3 of 3) 07/11/2012 Play
Franz Liszt Sonata in B minor (part 2 of 3) 07/11/2012 Play
Franz Liszt Sonata in B minor (part 1 of 3) 07/11/2012 Play
Sergei Rachmaninov Prelude in G minor, Op. 23 No. 5 07/11/2012 Play
Robert Schumann Études Symphoniques, Op. 13 - Part II 07/11/2012 Play
Robert Schumann Études Symphoniques, Op. 13 - Part I 07/11/2012 Play
Frédéric Chopin Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op. 58 (Largo) 07/11/2012 Play
Frédéric Chopin Sonata No.3 in B minor (Finale. Presto non tanto) 07/11/2012 Play
Franz Liszt Transcendental Etude No. 10 in F minor 07/09/2010 Play Add to playlist
Franz Liszt Sonata in b minor 01/09/2012 Play Add to playlist
Franz Liszt Liebesträume No. 3 in A-flat Major (Dreams of Love) 07/09/2010 Play Add to playlist
Franz Liszt La Campanella, from 6 Etudes d’execution transcendante d’apres Paganini, S. 141, arr F. Busoni 01/06/2012 Play Add to playlist
Franz Liszt Rhapsodie Espagnole, S. 254 (Spanish Rhapsody) 01/06/2012 Play Add to playlist
Franz Liszt Rhapsodie Espagnole (Spanish Rhapsody) 12/24/2011 Play
Franz Liszt Un Sospiro, from Trois Etudes de concert, S. 144 12/24/2011 Play
Franz Liszt Un Sospiro, from Trois Etudes de concert, S. 144 01/06/2012 Play Add to playlist
Johannes Brahms Variations on a Theme of Paganini op. 35 (Book II) 12/24/2011 Play
Frédéric Chopin Etude op.10 No.12 'Revolutionary' 12/24/2011 Play
Frédéric Chopin Grand Polonaise in A-flat Major, 'Heroic', Op. 53 12/24/2011 Play
Frederic Chopin Ballade No. 1 in g minor, Op. 23 07/09/2010 Play Add to playlist
Frederic Chopin Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp Minor, Op. 66 07/09/2010 Play Add to playlist
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op.53, "Waldstein" 07/12/2010 Play Add to playlist
Robert Schumann Intermezzo from Faschingschwank aus Wein Opus 26 07/09/2010 Play Add to playlist
Alexander Scriabin Etude in d-sharp minor, Op. 8 No. 12 07/09/2010 Play Add to playlist

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