Leah Siltberg

Pianist Leah Siltberg is an active and sought-after performer in several contexts. Based in Minneapolis, Siltberg has performed or recorded with the Weisman Art Museum’s SONIC WAM, the James Sewell Ballet, Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul’s Schubert Club, Thursday Musical, the Chamber Society of Minnesota, and the American Composers’ Forum. In 2010, Siltberg was featured as a solo performer in Jerusalem’s Mozart and Chopin festivals and performed as part of a chamber music tour of the West Bank and the Golan Heights. In 2008, she performed Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto with Minneapolis’s Kenwood Symphony. In 2007, she was part of the premier of a Colombian trio at the White House Conference on the Americas. Although Siltberg most often concertizes as a collaborative pianist, she has performed both solo and collaborative recitals in the United States, Canada, Central America, the Middle East, Spain, and New Zealand. Siltberg graduated from Toronto's Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music with a Performance Diploma, Bachelor of Music, and Artist Diploma under the tutelage of former Leningrad Conservatory piano chair Boris Lysenko and the Duke Trio's Peter Longworth and completed a M.Mus. and DMA in collaborative piano and coaching at the University of Minnesota with Timothy Lovelace and Noriko Kawai.