31 Facts About Barbara Nissman

Barbara Nissman is especially known for her interpretations and performances of the works of Alberto Ginastera and Sergei Prokofiev which feature prominently in her repertoire.

Barbara Nissman is a writer and a producer of a new DVD series, and a guest clinician presenting concerts, master classes and lectures world-wide.

Barbara Nissman subsequently made her American professional debut as soloist with Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Barbara Nissman has performed with some of the leading orchestras in Europe, including the London Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony, the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Munich Philharmonic.

Barbara Nissman has worked with major conductors of our time, including Eugene Ormandy, Riccardo Muti, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Leonard Slatkin.

Barbara Nissman uncovered the manuscript of Ginastera's Concierto Argentino in the Fleisher Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia and reintroduced the piece in 2011 with the blessings of the composer's estate.

Barbara Nissman made history in 1989 by becoming the first pianist to perform the complete piano sonatas of Sergei Prokofiev in a series of three recitals in both New York and London.

In June 2014 at Steinway Hall in New York City, Barbara Nissman launched her record label Three Oranges Recordings, devoted to furthering classical music and making it more accessible.

The Foundation will support the innovative educational work of Barbara Nissman as manifested in her lectures, master-classes, informal concerts, solo and orchestral appearances, benefit concerts, and her uniquely conceived DVD series of educational master classes.

Barbara Nissman attended the University of Michigan on full scholarship and received a Bachelor of Music degree in 1966.

Barbara Nissman was awarded a three-year post-doctoral grant from the university to begin her international performing career.

Barbara Nissman received grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation and The Philadelphia Foundation, as well as a National Endowment for the Arts recital grant to present the Prokofiev sonata series at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center in 1989.

In March, 2020 Barbara Nissman received the Governor's Lifetime Achievement Award in the Arts from the State of West Virginia.

In June, 2023, Barbara Nissman was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame joining well known classical musicians: George Crumb, Eleanor Steber, Phyllis Curtin and jazz and country greats from the state of West Virginia.

In May, 2024, Barbara Nissman was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music degree from West Virginia University.

Barbara Nissman has long been associated with the music of Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera, and the composer's final work, Piano Sonata No 3, Op.

Barbara Nissman presented the Netherlands premiere of the concerto at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and its UK premiere with the BBC Symphony, and has performed the concerto with the Chicago Symphony, St Louis Symphony and the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Slatkin.

In 2016 Barbara Nissman celebrated Ginastera's 100th birthday with a series of concerts devoted to the man and his music at Spectrum in NYC and at Kings Place, London as well as master classes and lectures throughout the UK.

Barbara Nissman made history in 1989 by becoming the first pianist to perform the complete piano sonatas of Sergei Prokofiev in a series of three recitals in both New York and London, and premiered the two-page fragment of Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No 10 in E minor, Op.

In commemoration of Prokofiev's 100th birthday in 1991, Barbara Nissman performed the complete cycle of his piano sonatas throughout Europe and the United States.

On May 8,2004, Barbara Nissman presented a lecture at the University of London titled "Prokofiev Meets Gershwin: Gershwin Meets Prokofiev," as part of a conference titled Prokofiev and America.

Barbara Nissman performed several of Prokofiev's solo piano works at the conference's John Coffin Memorial Recital.

Barbara Nissman was a featured performer at the dedication of Columbia University's Prokofiev Archive on April 24,2015, with members of the Prokofiev family in attendance.

Barbara Nissman was a featured performer at the International Prokofiev Symposium, held at Louisiana State University in February 2016, that featured addresses by Richard Taruskin, Simon Morrison and Gabriel Prokofiev.

Barbara Nissman was the first to perform and record Bartok's unpublished 1898 Sonata, which she discovered in the Morgan Library's manuscript collection while researching her book.

In 1982, Barbara Nissman was the featured performer in the first Gracht concert held in Amsterdam on the Prinsengracht and attended by 8,000 people.

In 1984 Barbara Nissman was one of the featured performers at the Dedication of the American Poets' Corner at the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York.

In 1988, Barbara Nissman was one of the participants in the "International Celebration of the Piano" held at Carnegie Hall, celebrating Steinway's 135th anniversary.

Since 2002, Barbara Nissman has been involved with the Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation benefit concert series "A Concerted Effort".

In 2007, Barbara Nissman appeared on stage with Don Henley and Billy Joel, performing on the "Walden Woods Steinway" in a gala fundraiser for the Walden Woods Project, held at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Barbara Nissman worked with Ginastera and shares her passion for his music in this portrait and master class.