Russian pianist Margarita Nuller to perform in Litchfield

LITCHFIELD – St. Michael’s Parish will present a concert by pianist Margarita Nuller on Sunday, Jan. 7 at 4 p.m., part of the First Sundays at Four series.

Nuller was born into a family of musicians in St. Petersburg, Russia. She began playing the piano and taking lessons from her mother, pianist Tatiana Selkova, when she was just five years old. She then attended a music school, affiliated with the St. Petersburg Conservatory, for gifted children, and subsequently graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory.

Nuller’s repertoire includes major works from the piano literature such as all 32 Beethoven Sonatas, all Chopin Etudes, Scherzos and Sonatas among others. Since her arrival in the United States in 1990, she has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in the New York metropolitan area and in New England. She has also played recitals in Brazil, Russia, Spain, and Portugal, and has been soloist with the Arkansas Symphony, Danbury Symphony, Klassika Orchestra in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Chamber Orchestra of Puerto Rico.

Nuller played her debut recital at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City as a winner of the Artist International Auditions. Her CD of Russian music was released on L’Art label in 2003. She has attended many summer festivals including the SIPO in Óbidos, Portugal, the Shandelee Festival in New York, and Music in the Palaces Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. She has also taught at the University of Hartford, the Moussorgsky College of Music in Russia, and the Connecticut Conservatory in New Milford.

She has a very busy teaching studio in New Fairfield and is on the faculty of the Kent School in Kent. Her students have been accepted at prestigious music schools, including the Eastman School of Music in New York, Peabody Conservatory of Music, and Oberlin College. She has been an adjudicator for the MTNA Piano Competition of New Jersey and for other state and local competitions. She has recently been playing and will be recording works by Boston composer Nickolas Van Slyck.

All are welcome to the concert; tickets are $20. A meet-the-artist reception will follow. St. Michael's

is located at 25 South Street, just off the Litchfield Green. For more information, call 860-5679465