Viviana Sofronitsky, Author at Music Master Lab

Viviana Sofronitsky

Viviana Sofronitsky explores the rich, complete world of sound available to classic and romantic composers with their then-new pianos! Viviana performs with two, three, four or five pianos on stage, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in the music performed on instruments as strong and colorful as they were at the time when they inspired young classical and romantic composers to write their masterpieces. The pianos used in the performance are newly built “clones” of the favorite instruments of great composers, produced by the world’s most prolific modern fortepiano maker, Paul McNulty. Her collection of top-quality new pianos includes Mozart’s and Beethoven’s favorites Walter and Stein, Schubert’s Graf, Chopin’s Pleyel and Liszt’s Boisselot. Her recent London Wigmore Hall performance with 5 pianos on stage was acclaimed as a “revelation”. Viviana Sofronitsky has followed in the footsteps of her father Vladimir Sofronitsky, a distinguished Russian pianist. She earned a DMA from the Moscow Conservatory and received historical fortepiano and harpsichord performance degrees from the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag. She won prizes at the "Bach Tage Berlin" and "Musica Antiqua" competitions. Viviana Sofronitsky has recorded with “AVI”, ”ETCetera”, “Centaur“, “Suoni e colori”, “Globe”, “Pro Musica Camerata” (11 CD of complete Mozart concertos) and “Passacaille” lebels. Her current projects include recording Chopin and Liszt on romantic fortepiano. Russian-Canadian citizen Viviana Sofronitsky is based in Prague, from which she travels Europe to perform with her fortepianos.

Historic Pianos of the Great Composers

Performance / By Viviana Sofronitsky

In his late years, pianist and conductor Anton Rubinstein was asked if composers like Mozart and Beethoven would have been happier if they had access to our modern pianos (Music and Its Masters, 1892). I hear this question often, even now. He answered, “I believe that instruments of all periods had tone colors and effects …

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Viviana Sofronitsky

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