Announcement of the 2026 Chamber Music Athens Festival. Solo, duo, and trio works by Mozart, Chopin, and Schoenberg-Steuermann. With Itamar Zorman, violin and James Kim, cello.
Solo recital.
Masterclass with JMU piano students.
With the Lysander Piano Trio. Works by Granados, Haydn, Shostakovich, and Schoenberg (arr. Steuermann) “Verklärte Nacht.”
Masterclass with Blair School of Music piano students.
Solo recital.
World premiere of a new solo piano work by Emily Koh.
Pre-concert remarks and participation in a complete performance of Fanny Hensel’s Das Jahr.
Recording sessions for a solo piano project. Stay tuned for more information!
Recital with Lysander Piano Trio. Works by Beethoven, Rebecca Clarke, and Schoenberg-Steuermann.
Recital with Lysander Piano Trio.
Performing Frescobaldi-Bartok Toccata and Mendelssohn-Rachmaninoff Scherzo as well as Lutoslawski Variations on a Theme by Paganini with Terrence Wilson, piano
Teaching in the Piano Institute program.
Performing RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Piano Quintet in C Minor
Renée Jolles, violin • Melissa Reardon, viola • Amir Eldan, cello • Tracy Rowell, bass • Liza Stepanova, piano
Recital and masterclass.
Works by Schumann, Shostakovich, Pärt, and Mendelssohn.
Piano masterclass and judge for the Arthur Fraser Piano Competition at the Southeastern Piano Festival.
Teaching and performing at the UGA Summer Music Camp for pre-college students.
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Recording sessions for a solo piano project. Stay tuned for more information!
Live broadcast of an interview with Stepanova. Watch on the Prague Piano Festival Festival Facebook page. Online audience members are welcome to ask questions.
Conversation with composition students at Boston Conservatory (by invitation only).
Duo recital with Itamar Zorman: Grazyna Bacewicz, William Walton, William Grant Still; solo performance of Strauss-Reger. This performance has been recorded and will be broadcast in early December on the Facebook page of the Covenant College Department of Music.
Virtually visiting Dr. Spencer Myer’s piano studio at Longy.
Stepanova speaks with University of Memphis composition students (by invitation only).
Itamar Zorman and Liza Stepanova perform from home. Reynaldo Moya’s “Rain Outside the Church” (from Stepanova’s upcoming album E Pluribus Unum) and violin/piano works by Kreisler, Bacewicz, Schubert, and Ravel.
Interview and performance. With Itamar Zorman, violin.
Interview-concert-presentation, conceived and edited by Liza Stepanova. With guests, conductor James Conlon, musicologists Michael Beckerman and Michael Haas, and Simon Wynberg, director of the ARC Ensemble. LEARN MORE about this special event and subscribe to Songfest to watch the entire presentation in the archive.
Lysander Piano Trio performs at Utah State University as part of the Wasserman Festival.
Lysander Piano Trio at the Norton Museum. Works by Granados, Higdon, Read Thomas, Mozart, and Brahms. READ REVIEW
Faculty solo recital at the University of Georgia. Works by Mozart, Ravel, Khaleghian, Liszt, and Brahms.
Solo Recital. Works by Mozart, Ravel, Brahms.
With Lysander Piano Trio, works by Mozart, Brahms, and Dvorak.
Lysander Piano Trio with special guests, Dimitri Murrath, viola and Sam Suggs, double-bass.
Solo Recital. Works by Mozart, Schubert, Khaleghian, and Wagner-Liszt. Masterclass at 2pm.
Recital with Itamar Zorman, violin. Works by Janacek, Schubert, and Franck.
Performing Clara Schumann: Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in a celebratory session for Clara’s 200th anniversary year. WATCH PERFORMANCE VIDEO
Three-concert residency with the Lysander Piano Trio.
Performing two concerts and offering six free community events during a residency at the festival. With Luke Fleming, viola (artistic director), Katie Hyun, violin, and members of the Lysander Piano Trio.
