Moscow-born pianist Elena Baksht first appeared with the Moscow Philharmonic at age 11 and has since concertized throughout the former Soviet Union, Europe, Central America and the United States as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. She has performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Centers's Avery Fisher Hall. Sher returns as Strings soloist for the second time.

Locally, she has appeared on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series and the University of Chicago Recital Series. Before earning a master’s degree at the Juilliard School, she was a full scholarship student at The Manhattan School of Music in the studio of Nina Svetlanova. In 1998, she was a winner of the Artist International Debut Award Competition and a recipient of the Hélène and Jerome Dreskin Foundation Career Grant.

A frequent performer at music festivals around the world, she has appeared at Tanglewood, Fontainebleau, France, the International Music Festival in Castelnuovo de Garfagena and the Bruges Recital Festival Series, among others. An active chamber musician, she regularly concertizes with her husband, violinist Dmitri Berlinsky, in this country and abroad. Currently, she serves on the piano faculty at the College of Music at Michigan State University.

Elena Baksht

Schumann
Overture to Manfred, Op.115

Mozart
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
No. 20 in D Minor, K 466
Elena Baksht, Piano

Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor,
Op. 67