Vienna presents its first female piano professor
mainFrom Jan Jiracek von Arnim:
I am teaching for 15 years already in Vienna at the University for Music and Performing Arts, and now I am finally able to welcome the first female professor colleague in our department for Piano Performance..!
Lilya Zilberstein gave her inaugural recital the other night. Welcome to Vienna, Lilya!!
Vienna is lucky to have her. Lilya is a great pianist and teacher!
Вене повезло приобретением Лили! А мне повезло быть у самых ее истоков –я ее знаю с ее 5ти летнего возраста и по сей день! Вчера был День Рождения Лилечки, а 23го апреля мы идем в Большой Зал Московской консерватории, где будет встреча с этой блестящей пианисткой-в ее исполнении прозвучит 3й фортепианный концерт С. Прокофьева. Ждем встречи с нетерпением!
Isolde Ahlgrimm taught harpsichord at the same department for more than two decades, until her retirement in 1984. This used to be called Abteilung 2 – Tasteninstrumente. I believe now it is called Institut für Tasteninstrumente.
Also, the same institution has employed for a long time women piano professors at the music education department.
Lilya was engaged to teach at the Department of Piano Performance where, apparently, she’s the first woman teacher.
When I was studying in Vienna I had Elizabeth Dvorak-Weissar as my piano professor
Evidently Ms. Silberstein must be the first piano professor in the department (now Institute) of keyboard instrument performance. Is there now a piano department separate from a harpsichord department? In the University of Music website I see an Institut für Tasteninstrumente (Podium/Konzert) that is more or less what I knew in the 80s as Abteilung 2 – Tasteninstrumente.
https://www.mdw.ac.at/421
Am I missing something?