Russian-born pianist Genya Paley has been a faculty member of New York’s Special Music School of America since 2001. She has also been on the faculty of the Preparatory Division of the Mannes College of Music since 1997, and the Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance since 1977. Ms. Paley was a faculty collaborator with violin students at the Juilliard School of Music in the classes of Dorothy Delay from 1977 to 1983. Ms. Paley was also a chamber artist and faculty collaborator at the Aspen Music Festival in 1978.
Prior to her teaching positions in the United States, Ms. Paley was on the faculty of the Belorussian Music College in the former USSR. Ms. Paley received her musical education (M.M.) from the Belorussian State Conservatory of Music in Minsk. Over the years, Ms. Paley’s students have earned numerous prizes from various international competitions. Many of these pianists are now sought-after solo and chamber artists, performing at prominent festivals stretching as far as Alaska and Florida, from California to Vermont. In 2008, her student Peter Asimov recorded the Concerto for Three Pianos by W. A. Mozart with the pianists Derek Han and Wu Han and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, conducted by Massimo Quarta. In the spring of 2006, Ms. Paley’s career was celebrated in a Tribute Concert at Merkin Hall, featuring performances by former and current students. Many of them returned fresh from their own faculty posts at music conservatories, or had traveled from graduate performance studies in order to participate. Ms. Paley has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in all the major concert halls in New York, including Merkin Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Carnegie Hall. In addition, Ms. Paley has performed extensively throughout the United States, including the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. As a chamber artist she has appeared at the Aspen Music Festival, as well as the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. “The excellent piano artistry of Dumka coach-accompanist Genya Paley” was noted enthusiastically in a review of her performance in April 2000 in the Ukrainian Weekly. She has also made numerous appearances throughout the former USSR and East Europe. Her recent engagements as a faculty member include the 2006 summer season of the Sulzbach-Rozenberg International Music Festival in Germany and from 2008-2011, the International Music Academies in Regensburg, Germany and Cremona, Italy. Ms. Paley currently resides in New York City.
