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Rita Reichman
Rita was born in Melbourne, Australia, the youngest child of a musical family with Jewish European roots. As a child prodigy, Rita made her first public appearance at three, playing Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata on Australian television. An important early teacher was Jascha Spivakovsky in Melbourne. At 10 she made her American debut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and at 11 with the Philadelphia Orchestra. She studied at the Curtis Institute of Music [www.curtis.edu] with Rudolph Serkin and with Mieczyslaw Horszowski whose teachers had studied with students of Beethoven and Chopin. Other masters with whom she studied were Jorge Bolet, Rosina Lhevine, Rosalyn Tureck, Gaby Casadesus, Philippe Entremont, Tatiana Nikolayeva and Paul Badura- Skoda. She studied chamber music with members of the Beaux Arts Trio, and the Galimir, Budapest and Guarneri String Quartets. This extraordinary musical pedagogy linking her directly to bygone eras gives Rita Reichman’s interpretations an authority and legitimacy. Rita has performed with many of the world’s leading conductors and in recital in France, Italy, America, Poland, Sweden, Austria, Canada, Israel, South Africa, Belgium, China and Australia. She performed in the White House for the President of the USA * [www.culinary.org/collector/bender/menu/menu.htm] and was invited to perform for Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana. Miss Reichman is in the midst of recording a series of concerti with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic [has completed the Ravel and Saint Saens G min] and has recorded an all Chopin solo CD [www.move.com.au/artist.cfm/315]. She was appointed Head of Piano at the Australian National Academy of Music in 2002 [www.anam.com.au], where she transfers the benefits of her unique education and experience to Australia’s top students. Her students have won many of Australia’s top prizes, and some have achieved international careers.