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Bratislava Conservatory and P. I. Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow (piano – Jakov Zak, Stanislav Nejgauz), where she also completed postgraduate study
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departmental assistant at Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava
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since 2006
employed at the University of New Haven, state of Connecticut, USA
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teaching activity at musical faculties in Germany (Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt, Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg), as also in Bowdoin College and at Portland Conservatory of Music
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currently lives in USA
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While professionally engaged in Slovakia she performed with the most important Slovak orchestras. Her concert performance in the USA and Europe has been varied and extensive (solo concerts with orchestra and independent recitals). She has performed with orchestras abroad such as the Berlin Radio Orchestra, Portland Symphony Orchestra in USA, Orchestre National de Lille in France, Eastern Connecticut Symphony, Orchestra of Southern Finger Lakes in New York etc.
Festivals in which she has participated include Russian Winter, Arcady Music Festival in USA, BHS, Berolina (in Germany, biennale of contemporary music), etc. She has made numerous concert appearances also at music institutes and universities in Europe and the USA.
Eva Virsik has collaborated with radio stations in Europe and the USA, and she has made recordings e.g. for SWR in Germany and for French television. She has given a recital in direct transmission for Morning Pro Musica on Boston radio. Her concerts have been broadcast on the American TV channel PBS, as well as radio stations in Maine and Connecticut. Her latest CD “Piano Encores” (2010) was highly rated by a critic in the magazine “Fanfare” (2011).