Program: Rameau, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Lauryn Bomse, Carmen Helena Téllez, and Natasha Stojanovska

Dr. Natasha Stojanovska is a Macedonian-American concert pianist, composer, music 
theorist, and educator whose artistry spans solo performance, chamber music, vocal 
coaching, recording, and composition. Praised for performances of emotional depth and 
intellectual rigor, she has appeared across the United States, Europe, Asia, the 
Caribbean, and the Middle East, earning recognition as both a compelling interpreter 
and a passionate advocate for underrepresented voices in classical music.
Recent highlights include solo appearances at Guarneri Hall in Chicago — presented by 
Augusta Read Thomas — the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts broadcast live on 
WFMT, the Steinway Series at Saint Philip’s in the Hills, the Holy Name Cathedral 
Concert Series, the Gilmore Piano Festival, and the Oregon Bach Festival Composers 
Symposium, and the Henry Fogel Presents Concert Series. In 2026 she joined the 
Symphony of the Americas in Fort Lauderdale for She Did It Her Way, produced by 
conductor Luke Frazier. Her collaborators have included Rachael Barton Pine, Shulamit 
Ran, Carmen-Helena Téllez, and conductors Keith Lockhart, Tsung Yeh, Guillermo 
Figueroa, and Saša Nikolovski-Gjumar.
Stojanovska is a recording artist on Navona Records. Her debut album Uncommon 
Voices: Women Composers from Eastern Europe (2022) was reviewed by MusicWeb 
International and broadcast on WFMT Chicago, KHFM New Mexico, and Classical 
Discoveries. The forthcoming Uncommon Voices, Part II: American Women Composers 
— supported by a Musicians Club of Women grant — continues an ongoing series 
extending to African and Latin women composers. As a composer, her works for solo 
piano, chamber ensembles, and art song, rooted in Macedonian folk tradition, have 
been performed at festivals across the US, Europe, and Australia.
An accomplished vocal coach, Stojanovska serves on the faculty of the Taos Opera 
Institute alongside Elizabeth Futral, Susanne Mentzer, and Amanda Majeski, and has 
served as Pianist on Call for the Santa Fe Opera. She prepared soprano Deborah 
Mayer for her Metropolitan Opera debut in Die Walküre. Together with her sister Marina, 
she co-directs the Stojanovska Sisters Piano Duo, a partnership of more than 25 years. 
As a concert producer and curator, she has presented international musicians at the 
Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, SITE Santa Fe Museum, Guarneri Hall, and 
PianoForte Studios in Chicago.
As an educator, Stojanovska has taught music theory, aural skills, and piano at 
Northwestern University, Indiana University South Bend, the University of New Mexico, 
and Merit School of Music in Chicago, where she currently teaches. Beginning Fall 
2026, she will serve as Performance Chair of the Musicians Club of Women, Chicago. 
She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance with a minor in Music Theory 
from Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, where she studied with James 
Giles and graduated Cum Laude with Program Honors, an Artist Diploma and Master of 
Music from Indiana University South Bend under Alexander Toradze, and a Bachelor of 
Music from Lynn University under Roberta Rust