What a Concert Pianist Brings to a Las Vegas Event

Where the sound comes from

By Dr. Maria Pisarenko, DMA · concert pianist in Las Vegas · October 2026

I was trained in the Russian piano school: at the Central Music School of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, a school for gifted children, then at the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music, and later at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where I earned my Doctor of Musical Arts. My line of teachers runs back to Franz Liszt through Alexander Siloti and Alexander Goldenweiser.

Why does that matter at a wedding or a reception? Because that school is built around one thing: making the piano sing. A melody that carries over a room of two hundred people without ever being loud; a quiet passage that makes a table stop talking for a moment. Guests who never listen to classical music hear the difference within a few bars.

About me, my teachers and my training →

Concert experience, at your event

Before playing events, I played concerts — and still do. In Nevada I have appeared as soloist with orchestras: Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 with the Reno Chamber Orchestra, Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the UNLV Symphony Orchestra, and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with the Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society. Earlier, in Europe, I received second prizes at international piano competitions in Rome and in Paris.

A concert career teaches things an event needs: to play from the first note without a warm-up, to keep going whatever happens in the room, to time music to a door opening or a speech ending, and to dress and behave as part of the occasion rather than a service behind it.

• Repertoire that suits the room — Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, and arranged film themes and songs
• One requested piece prepared in advance for every booking
• Music timed to your run of show — arrival, ceremony, dinner, toasts
• A violin, cello or voice with the piano, arranged on request

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