Piano Stories - Kaleidoscope Arts Concert Series 2026

Sunday, August 23

4:30pm - 6:00pm

Every piece of music tells a story, but not always in the same language.

Piano Stories journeys through four distinct musical worlds, spanning different cultures, time periods, structures, and emotional landscapes. From the profound intimacy and searching beauty of Beethoven to Chopin’s sweeping Romanticism, Prokofiev’s bold and restless energy, and the rich colors of Rachmaninoff, each work reveals an entirely different voice of the piano.

Together, these pieces create a kaleidoscope of sound: intimate and dramatic, lyrical and unexpected, delicate and powerful.

One piano. Four composers. Countless colors. Each with a story of its own.

Victoria Schwartzman, Piano

Artistic Director of Kaleidoscope Arts

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Victoria Schwartzman (formerly Mazin) performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician. Victoria has appeared with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra chamber players, at Bard Music Festival, at the Music Mountain Festival, in the New York Philharmonic Ensembles series at Merkin Hall, at Summit Music Festival, at Bargemusic, in the Gessner- Schocken concert series in Cambridge, WMP Concert Hall, and the Nicolas Roerich Museum concert series in New York City. As a member of the Yanvar Trio, she was a prizewinner in the Val-Tidone Chamber Music Competition and a finalist in the Zinotti International Chamber Music Competition, both in Italy. After graduating from Jerusalem Conservatory, Victoria continued her education at the Longy School of Music and New England Conservatory. While pursuing various degrees in solo and chamber music performance, she was selected to perform in masterclasses given by Dmitri Bashkirov, Menahem Pressler, and Richard Goode, among others. Her principal teachers include Irina Kivaiko, Issak Kossov, Victor Rosenbaum, Sally Pinkas, Eda Shlyam, and Eteri Andjaparidze. As a soloist with orchestra, Victoria has performed with the Jerusalem Chamber Orchestra, the New Westchester Symphony Orchestra, the Longy School of Music Chamber Orchestra, and the Riverside Orchestra. She has performed at the Quartet Program in Pennsylvania and participated in the Tel-Hai International Piano Festival in Israel and the Lyrica Chamber Music Festival in New Jersey. Also active in the field of opera and art song, Victoria was a vocal coach and accompanist at the Boston Lyric Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Bard Music Festival, the Brevard Music Center, the Westchester Summer Vocal Institute, and the American Institute of Musical Studies Festival in Graz, Austria. Victoria is as committed to performance as she is to education. She has given a piano masterclass in various schools and colleges and master's class in Russian vocal repertoire at Queens College, NY. She is on the coaching faculty at Montclair State University, and the piano faculty at the Bard College Preparatory Division. She joined the AIMS in Graz faculty during the summer of 2024. Victoria is a Steinway Artist.