Dr. Reena Berger NatenbergPiano Associate Professor of Music Pittsburg State University |
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Pianist Reena Berger Natenberg has performed internationally as soloist throughout North America, South America, Asia and in Europe, These appearances include performances at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Edward Pickman Hall in Cambridge Massachusetts, The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Midday Concert Series, the House of the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, and the Christ Church Cathedrale, the Chapelle du Bon Pasteur, Salle Claude Champagne, Salle Marie Stèphane and the Gelber Conference Center in Montreal. She was featured on radio and television, most notably in a television documentary pertaining to the Czech culture playing the piano pieces of Smetana and Martinu, and on Boston's radio station WGBH in the program "Off the Record". Dr. Natenberg has also performed in many music festivals. They include: The Banff School of Fine Arts (Canada), The Russian School of Music (Freiberg, Germany), the Kent-Blossom Music Festival (U.S.) and the Orford Arts Center (Canada).
Since moving to the U.S. in 2000, Dr. Natenberg has performed extensively as guest artist at many university music schools throughout the U.S. Other recent concert tours include: China, in August 2004, to perform in the China/Harbin Summer Music Festival; South America in August/September 2005, where Dr. Natenberg presented solo recitals at universities in Southern Brazil, in Asuncion, Paraguay, and at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; return trips to Paraguay in 2006 and 2008 for concerto performances with the Orquesta Sinfónica de la Ciudad Asunción; Asia in 2007, where Dr. Natenberg presented recitals at Universities and concert halls in South Korea, Indonesia, Viet Nam (including at the Hanoi Opera House) and Thailand (including at the Goethe Cultural Center in Bangkok.). She returned to South America in May-June 2008 to perform solo and chamber music recitals at the International Music Festival at the Center of the World (in Quito) and at the University of Cuenca, Ecuador.
A recipient of numerous awards and honors, Dr. Natenberg was born in Montreal. She studied at the McGill Conservatory of Music, the Rubin Academy of Music (Tel Aviv University), the New England Conservatory of Music, and the University of Montreal. Her principal teachers were Marc Durand, Patricia Zander and Viktor Dervianko. She also worked with Garrick Ohlsson, Menahem Pressler, Georgy Sëbok, Vitaly Margulis, Karl Engel, André Laplante, and Anton Kuerti.
A noted pedagogue, Dr. Natenberg was a teaching assistant to the piano department at the New England Conservatory in Boston. From 1994-1999 she was a lecturer in piano at the University of Montreal. Dr. Natenberg is currently associate professor of piano at Pittsburg State University. She has also presented master classes, lectures and seminars throughout the world. Her students have been prize winners of numerous competitions. Many of them are frequent performers who are teaching at reputed conservatories and universities in the U.S. and abroad.