Music Branch

The Ojai Art Center presents four classical chamber music concerts each year. 
​The 2020 remaining dates are:
Sunday, March 15 at 2pm
Sunday, June 7 at 2pm
Sunday, November 15 at 2pm   

Pianist Natasha Kislenko
Sunday, March 15 at 2pm

​Pianist Natasha Kislenko returns to the Ojai Art Center this March  to dazzle us with Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky favorites.  Natasha has concertized extensively in the former USSR, Germany, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain and the United States. Critics praise her “great artistry,” “perfect technique,” and “extraordinary richness of nuance and color.”
Previous solo engagements include the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, The Tbilisi Philharmonia, Georgia, the Lugansk Philharmonic Orchestra, Ukraine and Santa Barbara Symphony, CA. Natasha has performed chamber music with many distinguished artists including Sarah Chang, Zvi Zeitlin, James Buswell, and others.
Natasha received top prizes at international piano competitions such as the J.S. Bach competition in Germany and J.N. Hummel competition in the Slovak Republic, as well as in France, Italy, and Portugal. She made her Carnegie Hall solo recital debut after taking the Grand Prize at the Missouri Southern International Piano Competition in 1996. 
Born in Moscow, Natasha holds graduate degrees in piano from the famed Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. She 

earned her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from Stony Brook University, NY.  She has been a faculty member at the Music Academy of the West, CA since 2004. Natasha taught at California State University, Fresno for five years and is presently on the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara. 

Tickets are $15 ($12 for Art Center members and students).  Tickets are sold only at the door. The Ojai Art Center is located at 113 South Montgomery. For information call (805) 640-1158  or e-mail musicbranchconcert@gmail.com 

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