Wagner College Young Musicians Competition 2005
Valeriya presented her Prize Recital
Sunday, May 21, 2006
5:30 p.m.
Music Performance Center, Campus Hall

PROGRAM

with Lesley Swanson, piano

            Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Major..........François Francoeur
                                               Adagio Cantabile
                                               Allegro Vivo

            Music für Solo Cello, Op. 108........................Gottfried von Einem
                                               Moderato

            Cello Suite # 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011......Johann Sebastian Bach
                                               Prelude
                                               Allemande
                                               Sarabande
                                               Gigue

Intermission
 

 Cello Concerto in E minor, O 85..............................Edward Elgar
Adagio, Allegro 

 Hungarian Rhapsody for Cello and Piano................David Popper

Valeriya performing the Bach Sonata

Valeriya performing the Elgar Concerto

  Biography

Valeriya was born in Kief, Ukrain.  When she was six years old, she began taking piano lessons.  At the age of nine, she started cello studies with Tamara Polyakova in Kiev.  In 2001 Valeriya's family moved to New York, and soon thereafter she enrolled in the Special Music School for gifted children, where she was accepted into the class of Prof. Vladimir Panteleyev.  In 2003 she gave her first solo recital, playing the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto.  

Currently Valeriya is a freshman at the Beacon School in Manhattan.  In 2004 she was a laureate of two cello competitions, the Liezen International Cello Competition in Austria and the Antonio Janigro Cello Competition for Juniors in Croatia.  In 2005 she won a scholarship from the Carsen Cello Foundation, and now plays the instrument given to her by the Foundation.  April 2006, Valeriya won second prize at the 8th International Cello Competition for Juniors (under 20) in Liezen, Austria.

 

Recording Engineer, Jeff Cavorley 
Photographs, Jeff Cavorley
Assistant, Jim Mauro