Collaborative Piano
Natasha (Natalia) Kislenko has performed extensively as a soloist and a collaborative pianist in Russia, Europe, and the United States.
She has appeared in recital and chamber music performances with numerous distinguished soloists, including Sarah Chang, Torleif Tedeen, James Buswell, Zvi Zeitlin, Theodore Kuchar, Tadeu Coelho, and Leone Buyse. As a soloist, Ms. Kislenko has received top prizes in international piano competitions in Germany, Portugal, France, the Slovak Republic, and the United States. She made her solo recital debut in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 1996.
Ms. Kislenko holds graduate degrees in piano performance and accompaniment from the famed Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Russia, the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University (Dallas), and the State University of New York, Stony Brook, where she completed her doctorate in 2004.
Ms. Kislenko moved to Santa Barbara in 2007 to assume a full-time teaching position at UC Santa Barbara. Previously, she served on the faculties of California State University, Fresno, for five years and Meadowmount School of Music (New York) in the summer of 2003.
Ms. Kislenko is an alumna of the Music Academy (2001) and has been a member of the faculty since 2004.