Dr. Liudmila Georgievskaya has performed as a recitalist in Russia, Italy, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, France, Netherlands, England, Hungary, Panama, and the United States. Winner of top prizes in more than a dozen national and international piano competitions, her performances have been broadcast on radio and television programs in Russia, the United States, Uzbekistan, Italy and Vatican City. She appeared as soloist with the Dubna Symphony Orchestra (Russia), Turkeston Symphony Orchestra (Uzbekistan), National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan and with some American orchestras including Meadows Symphony Orchestra, Las Colinas Symphony, Garland Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Arlington, UNT Concert Orchestra, and Concert Artists of Baltimore.
Active also as chamber musician, she is a member of Voices of Change, one of the most distinguished new music ensembles in the United States. She often performs in piano duos with her husband Thomas Schwan and with her sister Olga Georgievskaya. Her solo CD with music by Beethoven and Schumann (Odradek Records, 2013) was received enthusiastically by the international press and won two Global Music Awards.
She graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Russia), as well as from Santa Cecilia Music Academy in Rome (Italy) and from the University of North Texas (USA), where she has earned her Doctorate in Piano Performance. She has earned her Artist Certificate at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, USA) under the guidance of Maestro Joaquín Achúcarro.
She currently teaches piano at the University of North Texas and is on the music faculty at Southern Methodist University, along with performing and giving masterclasses worldwide.
Select Reviews:
“the program she presented... and, above all, the way she interpreted it, left many people open-mouthed: absolute art, technique, and musicality[...]Georgievskaya was an exemplary messenger of Beethoven's pianism, delivering some stupendous dynamic contrasts and achieving a delightful sonority in pianissimo[...]great sound control in pianissimo as well as a stunning interpretative security[...]formidable performance[...]she knew well how to express the lyricism of this work submerging the audience in a game of contrasts and virtuosity of great beauty[...]her mastery of the instrument borders on perfection[...]Georgievskaya left many people astounded while achieving the sound climax at vertiginous speed and without apparent effort” Scherzo Magazine – Michael Thallium (April 2019)
“Georgievskaya and Thomas Schwan, who happen to be married, teamed up for Percy Grainger's alternately rousing and dreamy Fantasy on Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, for two pianos. [...] Georgievskaya and Schwan served the flash with great flair, but they warmly caressed hit tunes from Gershwin's great opera, including 'Summertime' and 'Bess, You Is My Woman Now'. Surely no one walked out of Caruth without a big smile.” Dallas Morning News – Scott Cantrell (February 2019)
