Lydia Artymiw

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Lydia Artymiw
Лідія Артимів
Born
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Occupation(s)Pianist and educator
Notable workAvery Fisher Career Grant winner and recipient of the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Prize

Lydia Artymiw [a] is native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and an American concert pianist and Emerita Distinguished McKnight Professor of Piano in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. [1] [2]

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Formative years

Artymiw was born in Philadelphia to Ukrainian parents and began piano studies at age four with George Oransky  [ uk ] at the Ukrainian Music Institute  [ uk ]. Her principal teachers were Freda Pastor Berkowitz, who also taught for over fifty years at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, from 1962–1967 and Gary Graffman, her primary mentor, with whom she studied from 1967 to 1979. Artymiw graduated summa cum laude from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 1973, which honored her with a "Distinguished Alumna" award in 1991. [3]

Career

Artymiw has appeared as soloist with over 100 orchestras world-wide, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl, and the American, Baltimore, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Detroit, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Francisco, Kansas City, National, Seattle, and Florida Symphonies, the St. Paul and St. Luke's Chamber Orchestras. She has performed at over 50 festivals including Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, Aspen, Caramoor, South Mountain, Chautauqua, Hollywood Bowl, Newport, Maverick, Music Mountain, Seattle, Bellingham, Bay Chamber, Chamber Music Northwest, Eastern Shore Maryland, Grand Canyon, Bravo!Vail, Ouray, Tucson, Bantry, Round Top, Meadowmount, Montréal, Virginia Waterfront, Hampden-Sydney,RPPF, and St. Barts. She has appeared in chamber performances with the Alexander, American, Borromeo, Concord, Daedalus, Guarneri, Miami, Orion, and Tokyo Quartets as well as in duo recitals with Arnold Steinhardt, Michael Tree, Kim Kashkashian, Marcy Rosen, Pina Carmirelli, Benita Valente, John Aler, and Yo-Yo Ma. She was a member of the Steinhardt-Artymiw-Eskin Trio with Arnold Steinhardt and Jules Eskin for ten years. She has also performed solo recitals in most major American cities including New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland (OR), Miami, Houston, Austin, Minneapolis, Detroit, and Pittsburgh, as well as in Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, Finland, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, France, Estonia, Ukraine, China, Taiwan, Korea, Philippines, Singapore, and New Zealand. [4]

Artymiw has been successful on the international competition circuit. She won third prize in the 1978 Leeds competition (UK) and was a finalist in the 1976 Leventritt competition (USA), a year in which no first prize was given. She was also a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1987 and the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award in 1989. Artymiw has served as a competition juror for the 2022 Charles Wadsworth Piano Competition in Georgia, the 2019 First China International Competition (Beijing), the 2017 Lang Lang Futian International Piano Competition, the 2015 First Van Cliburn Junior International Piano Competition and Festival, and for the William Kapell, Esther Honens, Wisconsin PianoArts, Pro Musicis, and the New York International Piano Competitions. In 2024 she will be a juror at the OSM (Montréal International Piano Competition) and for the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition in Utah. She has also been on the juries for twenty piano concerto competitions at Juilliard and the Manhattan School, as well as Juilliard's Bachauer and Nordmann Fellowship Competitions. Lydia Artymiw is Emerita Distinguished McKnight Professor of Piano at the University of Minnesota where she was on the faculty from 1989-2020. [5] In 2000, she received the Dean's Medal at the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. [6] In 2015, Artymiw was awarded the 2015 Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education Prize by the Board of Regents. Since 2015, Artymiw has been a guest piano faculty member at Juilliard. She presented piano master classes at both Juilliard and Curtis in 2016 as well as for the Manhattan School in 2021. [7]

She has recorded for Chandos, Centaur, Pantheon, Artegra, and Bridge. Her recordings have received awards from Gramophone (Best of the Year) and Ovation (Best of the Month), and she was nominated for a 2019 Grammy Award with cellist Marcy Rosen for their Bridge CD of "The Complete Cello/Piano Works of Felix Mendelssohn." Her Chandos CD of Tchaikovsky's "The Seasons" sold over 20,000 copies and is still in print. [3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Ukrainian: Лідія Артимів, romanized: Lidiia Artymiv

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References

  1. ↑ "Prof Lydia Artymiw." Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota, retrieved online February 23, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Lydia Artymiw, Pianist." Chestertown, Maryland: Washington College, April 21, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Lydia Artymiw | ArkivMusic". www.arkivmusic.com. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  4. ↑ University of Minnesota. College of Liberal Arts. (1994). "CLA Today, March 1994". CLA Today: 11. hdl:11299/171156.
  5. ↑ "Lydia Artymiw, piano." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, retrieved online February 23, 2019.
  6. ↑ University of Minnesota. College of Liberal Arts. (2000). "CLA Today, Summer 2000". CLA Today: 14. hdl:11299/171495.
  7. ↑ "May 2015 Board of Regents Meeting". Board of Regents | University of Minnesota. May 2015. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
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