On the final day of July, the remarkably talented pianist Golda Vainberg-Tatz, who performs worldwide and has earned numerous awards, returns to Paliesius Manor! The pianist will present our audience with the program “Laiko atspindžiai”.

“A pianist with a wonderfully firm and clear touch” (The New York Times), “a fascinating interpreter” (Tagblatt, Germany), “an artist distinguished by musical depth and virtuosity” (The Times Argus, USA) — this is how the international press describes Golda Vainberg-Tatz. She received her musical education in Lithuania at the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art, and later studied at the Tel Aviv University Academy of Music and the prestigious Juilliard School in New York.

As a soloist, Golda Vainberg-Tatz has performed throughout Europe, Israel, China, and the United States, and has participated in numerous radio and television broadcasts. These include New York’s WQXR radio, the live-broadcast Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago, and the Sundays Live series on KMLT radio in Los Angeles. She has graced major New York concert halls: Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, and the 92nd Street Y. She has also performed in live broadcasts from the Jerusalem YMCA concert series, as well as on Lithuanian radio and television programs.

The pianist has been invited to prestigious international festivals, including the Salzburg Mozarteum Festival, the Shanghai International Piano Festival, the Vilnius Festival, the St. Petersburg Palaces Chamber Music Festival, the French Piano Institute in Paris (Salle Cortot), and many others.

As a soloist, she has performed with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (conductor Liang Zhang); in Lithuania, she has played with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra (C. Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Concerto, conductor Robertas Šervenikas; M. Ravel’s Concerto, conductor Zeev Dorman) and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Saulius Sondeckis, performing W. A. Mozart’s concertos K. 382, K. 453, K. 466, and K. 537, L. van Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto, and the double concertos of A. Schnittke and F. Mendelssohn.

In June 2017, she premiered Jan Radzynski’s Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra, a work dedicated to her, with the St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra (conductor Donatas Katkus). In the United States, she has performed M. Ravel’s “Concert sol” with the Plainfield Symphony Orchestra, J. Brahms’s Concerto in D minor with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, and S. Rachmaninoff’s Concerto in C minor with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

As a chamber musician, Golda Vainberg-Tatz has frequently performed with the Vilnius Quartet, playing E. Chausson’s Double Concerto (together with Raimundas Katilius), and presenting premieres of works by Moisejus Vainbergas, Erwin Schulhoff, and Jan Radzynski in Lithuania, Washington, D.C. (Holocaust Museum concert series), Israel (Museum of the Diaspora in Tel Aviv), Ohio University in Columbus, Toronto (Glen Gould Studio), and at the Canadian Jewish Festival Week.

Among the pianist’s accolades are first prize at the Lithuanian State Young Pianists Competition, scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, the title of laureate at the prestigious Maurice Clairmont Competition in Israel, top prizes at the Young Keyboard Artists Competition (University of Michigan), The World Piano Competition (Cincinnati), the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition, reaching the finals of the Chopin Competition in New York, the Prix du Disque award at the French Piano Institute in Paris, and the Palm Beach Invitational International Competition in Florida.

Golda Vainberg-Tatz is a Steinway Artist. Her recordings include W. A. Mozart’s Piano Concertos K. 453 and K. 466 (conductor Constantine Orbelian, Moscow Chamber Orchestra), released on digital music platforms (Delos, USA), which in 2022 were included in the Idagio Editors’ Pick playlist and Spotify’s top new releases lists. Her released albums also include “The Portrait” (solo recital, FPI), French sonatas for violin and piano with Raimundas Katilius (VSCD), a CD of Robert Schumann’s piano music (3D, France) that received exceptionally favorable reviews from critics at Fanfare magazine and the American Record Guide, and Moisejus Vainbergas’s Piano Quintet with the Vilnius Quartet (Delos).

Golda Vainberg-Tatz studied under Judith Gotler in Lithuania, Mindru Katz and Emanuel Krasovsky in Israel, and in the United States with Bella Davidovich (Juilliard School), Nina Svetlanova (Manhattan School of Music), Jeffrey Swann, and Rosalyn Tureck.

The pianist teaches in the Pre-College Division at the Manhattan School of Music and serves as an associate faculty member at the Juilliard School, as well as a faculty member at the Tel Hai International Master Classes in Israel, the Berkshire Piano Academy, and the Morningside Music Bridge international summer program. She has conducted masterclasses at the Jerusalem Academy of Music, Tel Aviv University, the Shanghai Conservatory, the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art, the Kaunas Spring Festival, and New York University. She is also regularly invited to serve on the juries of international competitions, including the Pozzoli International Piano Competition (Italy), the Olga Kern International Piano Competition, the Malta International Piano Competition, the Shanghai International Piano Competition, the Canadian National Chopin Competition, the “Frina Awerbuch International Piano Competition”, Manhattan School of Music auditions, and Juilliard Pre-College scholarship and concerto competitions. Many of her students have won top prizes in national and international competitions.

In 2003, at the invitation of Professor Rosalyn Tureck, Golda Vainberg-Tatz was appointed director of the Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Competition.