Dr. Liudmila Georgievskaya has performed as a recitalist in Russia, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, France, Italy, Netherlands, England, Hungary, Spain, 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, UNT Concert Orchestra, Las Colinas Symphony, Garland Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Arlington, and Concert Artists of Baltimore. 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.
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.
An honors graduate of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, she has earned her Artist Certificate under Joaquín Achúcarro at Southern Methodist University in 2010. Since then she has been on the music faculty at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Georgievskaya is also on the piano faculty at the University of North Texas and has has been giving masterclasses worldwide.
From press 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
“In Ginastera's Danzas Argentines (1937) pianist Liudmila Georgievskaya delivered driving, pounding rhythms with pizzazz, dreamy music with poetry”
Dallas Morning News, Scott Cantrell, May 2018
“Her subtle way of shaping and differentiating lines works miraculously”
Pizzicato, Remy Franck, October 2014
“Transcendent in her search for the universal...Georgievskaya gives a pure, correct, elegant interpretation...her approach to Beethoven's classicism is very accurate, variations like the fourth one are executed in a pristine way, and the runaway finale borders on perfection”
Ritmo, Inés Ruiz Artola, March 2014
“Light-fingered, unrhetorical and supremely articulate playing ... What a joy is this performance”
Herald Scotland, Michael Tumelty, February 2014
“There’s a sharp, inquisitive mind shaping the performance, one that’s quickly responsive to every change of direction … It makes for an involving, energizing experience”
The Guardian, Andrew Clements, January 2014
“She plays Beethoven’s fifteen Eroica Variations almost seamlessly … She has perfect balance in the canon in variation VII and she crosses hands so smoothly in VIII and XI that you’d swear you could hear three octaves at once … The last movement’s complex fugue on the simple theme has the Russian pianist at her most brilliant”
Words and Music, Rick Jones, December 2013
“Authoritative, expressive performances”
Dallas Morning News, Scott Cantrell, October 2013
“The concerts and masterclasses were exciting and enlightening … The interpretations inspired us with their depth, clarity and sincerity”
Pravda Vostoka, Gusal Tagieva, June 2004
