Eva Virsik has performed with orchestras, solo and chamber music in the United States, Europe

and Asia. "The magical sound of the piano... an unsurpassed experience", wrote the daily

Stuttgarter Nachrichten after one of her first concerts in Germany. She presented herself to

audiences in numerous music centers and capitals of Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria,

Germany, Greece, Hungary, France, Russia, Turkey, South Korea, and the USA, including

Carnegie hall. She performed at international festivals, such as the Russian Winter, BHS

(Bratislava Music Celebrations) in Slovakia, Berolina festival in Germany, Karlsbad festival in the

Czech Republic, in the USA twice at the Robert and Clara Schumann Festivals in New York, which

were attended by several descendants of the composer, she appeared at Arkady festival in Maine.

After winning four youth competitions as a child, including the Virtuosi per Musica di Pianoforte in

Czech Republic, at age fifteen she won the first prize at the Smetana competition, received a

special Award of Czech Music Critics, and played her orchestra debut under the baton of Libor

Pešek. Performances at the Rudolfinum hall in Prague and the Reduta hall in Bratislava followed.

She established herself in her native country as one of the leading pianists of her generation,

performing repeatedly as a soloist with orchestras in Slovakia, including the Slovak Philharmonic,

the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Sinfonietta, and the Bohdan Warchal Chamber

Orchestra. Soon after, she became the laureate of the Maria Callas Grand Prix International Piano

Competition in Athens, Greece, and was invited to perform with the Berlin Radio Orchestra and at

the Schumann House in Zwickau, both in a live broadcast on Berlin Radio. After her debut in

France in five concerts tour with the Orchestre National de Lille, she also made her debut in the

USA with the Portland Symphony Orchestra and conductor Toshiyuki Shimada, with whom she

has performed with other orchestras in the USA. In 2008 Virsik made her solo debut at Carnegie

Hall in New York, in 2017 she debuted in Turkey (Ankara) and in 2018 in South Korea at Shinyoung

Hall (Seoul), and the Tribowl Cultural Center (Incheon). She was awarded the prestigious title

Steinway Artist in 2013, and was enlisted in their worldwide roster.

Eva Virsik performed and recorded for radio and television networks and their archives, e.g.

SWR/ARD in Germany, STVR in Slovakia, and in the USA at the invitation of the iconic presenter

Robert J. Lurtsema she played a live broadcasted recital in "Morning pro Musica" on WGBH

Radio in Boston. Her concerts were aired in the USA on the PBS television network and on public

radio stations in Maine and Connecticut. Her CD "Piano Encores" was highly praised in classical

music magazine "Fanfare" (2011) by Washington Post critic Patrick Rucker. In more recent years

in addition to numerous concerts in the USA, she further appeared with the Slovak Sinfonietta 

in Žilina and conductor Oliver von Dohnányi, in a solo recitals in Vienna, including the Mozart house,

as a piano duo with conductor/pianist Alexei Kornienko in Bratislava, with soloists of the Slovak

national opera at the Pro musica nostra festival in Slovakia, with chamber ensembles in the USA -

such as Portland String Quartet, DaPonte String Quartet, and with instrumentalists in New York.

In 2021, Virsik inaugurated a limited edition Lang Lang Black Diamond Steinway piano with a

concert in Stary Klíž, Slovakia, she performed at the United Nations anniversary celebrations in

New York, appeared with Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra and conductor Toshiyuki

Shimada in Beethoven's Triple Concerto (Elissa Lee-Koljonen violin, Sophie Shao cello), and in

Bratislava with violinist Hannah Cho, she appeared with the Southern Finger Lakes orchestra and

conductor Toshiyuki Shimada in the opening concert of the Schumann festival, gave recitals in

Austria and Hungary, presented all-Schumann solo recital at the Slovak Philharmonic hall in

Bratislava, and as a part of her Virsik & Friends series played in a piano duo with guest artist

Svetlana Smolina.

Eva Virsik was born in Bratislava. As a four-year-old, she performed on Slovak television. From

the age of five she composed her own compositions ("I Have Music", Keyart 2002, USA; “Mám

hudbu”, Musica Slovaca, Slovakia, 2026). At the age of eight, she had her first public recital 

in Bratislava, and at the age of eleven, she was accepted to the Bratislava Conservatory. She spent

eight years in Moscow studying at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory under the guidance of former

pupils of one of the most sought after pianist-pedagogues of the twentieth century, Heinrich

Neuhaus: his son Stanislav Neuhaus, and also Yakov Zak, and she completed her university studies

with a Doctor of musical arts. She was piano faculty in Germany at the Hochschule für Musik und

darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt and Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, in the USA at the University

of New Haven and Bowdoin College, in Slovakia at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava,

and as a pedagogue presented also master classes, seminars and performances at universities in

Germany: at Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Leopold Mozart Conservatoryr (LMC)Augsburg, 

Hochschule für Musik Berlin, Hochschule für Musik Hamburg; in the USA: Yale University, 

Bowdoin College, Bates College, University of Connecticut, Portland Conservatory of

Music, Hopkins School; in the Czech Republic: Academy of Performing Arts in Prague; in

Slovakia at the State Conservatory in Bratislava; in Turkey: Marmara University in Istanbul; in

South Korea: Lindenbaum Festival Academy in Incheon and in the USA as part of the last two

Robert and Clara Schumann festivals in Corning and Elmira, New York. 

Virsik published articles about Yakov Zak, and contributed with afterword into a new edition of the book by Heinrich Neuhaus: Art of Piano Playing, re-published in Slovakia in 2023. She repeatedly performed at UN events in New York with a musical program for two Slovak presidents, also for international

diplomatic corps at the anniversary celebrations of the Slovak Republic in Washington DC (2013), for V4 countries at the Hungarian embassy in Ankara, and was honored by the Slovak-American Cultural Center in New York for representation in the performing arts (2010). She received the Coin of Excellence from General Frank J. Grass (Washington, DC, 2013) and in January 2023 she received award in Starý Klíž, Slovakia "for remarkable contribution and presentation of cultural

values benefiting the general welfare of mankind".

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