Virginia Eskin’s concerto appearances include the Annapolis, Buffalo, Louisville, New Hampshire, Rochester, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Utah Symphony Orchestras, the Boston Classical, the Israel Sinfonietta, and the Boston Pops. She has also performed as a soloist with the New York City and Boston Ballet Companies, and at New York’s Morgan Library in New York. During 2005¬06 she presented recitals at the Athenaeum in La Jolla and Sonoma (CA), Mohonk Music (NY), and the Atherton Theatre in Honolulu; and made an Elbe River tour in Germany with the Portland String Quartet. She performed Clara Schumann’s piano concerto with the Atlanta (GA) Chamber Symphony, MacDowell’s Concerto in D minor in Athens with the National Orchestra of Greece and Beethoven’s 3rd Concerto with Symphony by the Sea (MA). Her recordings include works by American composers Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, Rebecca Clark and George Chadwick. With the Hawthorne Quartet she recorded Chamber Music From Theresienstadt (Channel Classics), Music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (Koch), and Silenced Voices (Northeastern). She recorded Dvorak’s Piano Quintet with the Portland String Quartet (Arabesque). Her “Ragtime Project” includes Fluffy-Ruffle Girls (Koch 1999), American Beauties: The Rags of Joseph Lamb (Koch 2000 re-release), and Spring Beauties (Koch 1998). She has also recorded Mrs. H.H.A. Beach (Koch), works by Marion Bauer and Ruth Crawford (Albany), and previously unrecorded works by Marion Bauer (Albany). Ms. Eskin appears frequently on college campuses as a speaker and performer. She has been a guest on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. She holds the appointment of Visiting Artist, Northeastern University Department of Music, and received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Keene State College (NH) to recognize her contributions to women’s music. Ms. Eskin is the host of First Ladies of Music,a recent 13-program radio series sponsored by Northeastern University and produced by WFMT, Chicago. This program has been carried by over 140 radio stations in the US and abroad since March 2006. In 2008 Koch will release her premiere recording of works by Czech composer Vitezslava Kaprálová, who perished during the Holocaust at age 25.

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