Classical pianist with over 10 years teaching experience.

Iryna S.

Irina S received a Master of Arts degree in Piano Performance, with honors, from California State University, Fresno, where she studied piano under professor Andreas Werz. Iryna was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, in 1986 and started playing the piano at age seven. At the age of 16 she graduated from the Kharkov Music School and was accepted to the Lyatoshinskiy Music College in Kharkov where she studied with Nikolai Dubinenko for four years. After graduation she moved to the United States and began studying at Gavilan College in Gilroy, California, under Maria Amirkhanian. In addition to her regular studies, she has participated in master classes with Vahan Mardirossian, Elena Kuschnerova, Markus Groh, Vardan Mamikonian, Giuseppe Andaloro, Biljana Urban and Jon Nakamatsu, all guest artists for the Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Concerts series in Fresno. She was the winner of the 2009 and 2015 Fresno State Concerto Competition which resulted in performances as soloist in Schumann’s Piano Concerto and Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Fresno State Symphony Orchestra. In the spring of 2010 she was featured in the Young Artist Spotlight on the KVPR radio station. Irina has given recitals at Gavilan College, Porterville Community College, and The Music Tree music store in Morgan Hill. She has also performed as a guest pianist at the Marian Filice Youth Piano Competition at Gavilan College and at the MTAC (Music Teachers Association of California) meeting in the Valley Music Center. She was a finalist in the 2012 Kruschke Piano Competition, a system-wide event of the California State University held at CSU, Chico. Irina performs regularly as an orchestral pianist, and she has performed with the Fresno Philharmonic and Monterey Symphony Orchestra. She maintains a private piano studio and collaborates with musicians in various chamber music groups.