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Well known to Vermont audiences, Natasha Koval-Paden brings considerable performing experience to the concert stage.
Raised in the Ukraine, and trained there under the tutelage of Vladimir Horowitz's sister, Koval-Paden arrived in the United States with a scholarship to Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Genhart. She later was a student of Edward Steuermann's at Juilliard. Since then her career has spanned several continents and included programs with a number of distinguished orchestras and chamber groups. Ms. Koval-Paden has performed extensively with the Soviet Émigré Orchestra, now the Tchaikovsky Cha Chamber Orchestra, under the directorship of Lazar Gosman.
Recent concertizing featured a five-city tour in Japan and a four-month dresidency at Oxford University's Wolfson College as visiting artist in residence. Ms. Koval-Paden performs regularly in England and South America.
Reviewers have consistently applauded Natasha Koval-Paden's musical vitality and understanding, her special, gifted sense of color, and what one has called her "architectural clarity."
Natasha Koval-Paden has made her home in South Burlington, Vermont, and currently teaches piano part-time at Middlebury College and St. Michael's College.