International Music Festival
Faculty Recital
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Chapel of St. Cornelius the Centurion 7:30 PM Valley Forge Military College
Svetlana Smolina has performed with orchestras and given recitals worldwide with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher, Mariinsky Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, Salzburg Festival at Mozarteum, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Ravinia Rising Stars in Chicago, White Nights in Saint Petersburg, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Mikkeli Festival Finland, Ruhr Klavier in Germany, Moscow Easter Festival, Rotterdam Philharmonic, at the Stresa Festival, Hanoi Opera House, London’s Royal Opera Covent Garden, Tchaikovsky Conservatoire Moscow and Rome’s Accademia Santa Cecilia.
Her discography includes a solo Album, Romantic Journey, and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.3 with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra/Maestro Derek Gleesonproduced and recorded by Luca Rustici for L’n’R Productions/Universal Music Label. 2026 Crossover album release on Warner Music “Rachmaninoff En Ritmo”, Chopin album with 24 Preludes and Nocturne for Chopin Project, a Scriabin project on Pentatone records from a live concert performance with Christopher O’Riley in Montana and a live recording at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles of Britten Young Apollo Concerto with Maestro Eduard Schmieder/iPalpiti Orchestra for BCM+D records. Her performances have been broadcasted on NPR, WQXR, BBC, PBS, RAI, Kultura TV, and other major networks. Her recording of Stravinsky’s Les Noces with Valery Gergiev received an International Classical Music Award (ICMA).
Svetlana’s recent performances include a tour to China with Dublin Philharmonic with Derek Gleeson and Christo Pavlov, concerts with Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional Juvenil in Lima, Peru, at Carnegie Hall in NYC, with violinist Lee-Chin Siow in Singapore, at the Basel Casino with Charlie Siem, CCK Symphony Hall/Buenos Aires in the “Best Pianists of the 21st Century series”, at the Classical Tahoe Festival with Maestro Joel Revzen, at the festival in Ushuaia/Argentina, and at Cremona International Summer Festival.
Svetlana collaborated in chamber concerts with Vadim Repin, Ida Haendel, Narek Hakhnazaryan, Kian Soltani, Geyhee Kim, Alexander Knyazev, Enrico Dindo, LeeChin Siow, Pavel Sporcl, Charlie Siem, Roberto Cani, Jannis Georgiadis, Dr. Subramaniam and many others. Svetlana and Vadim Repin have given duo recitals in Bogota at Teatro Colon for the Cartagena Festival, at Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, in Bangalore and Mumbai for XXV Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival, at Koerner Hall in Toronto and at Salle Garnier de Monte Carlo for Prince Albert s Monaco Foundation, as well as for Trans-Siberian Art Festival in Novosibirsk, Washington DC, London and New York.
Reminder: Please silence cell phones and other electronic devices for all performances.
PIMF is a program of Sandy Marcucci International Camps, Inc.
Most recent invitations included New Year Eve Gala with Shanghai Philharmonic and with Harbin Symphony and Maestro Muhai in China, recital at Recital at Taihu Art Festival/22nd China Shanghai Int Arts Festival at Wuxi Grand Theater; duo concerts with Vadim Repin at NCPA Beijing, Shanghai Concert Hall, Shenzhen Concert Hall Belt & Road International Music Festival, debut solo recitals at Dell’arte Concert Series in Sao Paolo and Rio de Janiero, Brazil; concert in Osaka, Japan with Kazuhiro Takagi, recital in Megaron Concert Hall Thessaloniki with Jannis Georgiadis, at Megaron Chamber Hall in Athens for the Piano Plus Festival, at Burgos International Music Festival, Spain , at the Triumph Music Festival/ Kimmel Center Music Academy in Philadelphia, with orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, recitals France at the Chateau de Valençay, at the White House in Leipzig, Germany and a concert recording for Steinway & Sons at the Lang Lang/Black Diamond Limited Edition at Starý Kliž.
In Spring 2026 Svetlana played Ravel concerto in all major concert halls in Florida, including The Parker Theater in Fort Lauderdale, New World Center in Miami, Tennessee Williams Theater in Key West and went on 10 recitals tour to Argentina and Santiago de Chile.
In June 2026 Svetlana will go on tour to Europe which will include a Festival Nights with Yury Revich in Vienna at Palais Schönborn-Batthyány for UNICEF Österreich, and at Steinway Vienna Concert Hall, at Chateaux de Valencay in France and in Bulgaria with Vratsa Symphony Orchestra. In September 2026 Svetlana will make her debut with Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional del Ecuador in Quito.
Svetlana is a frequently invited Artist for iPalpiti Festival of International Laureates after making her solo debut with iPalpiti Orchestra/Maestro Eduard Schmieder at Walt Disney Concert Hall where they recorded live Britten Young Apollo to a high critical acclaim.
Svetlana Smolina is a Grand Prix winner of Italy s Citta Di Senigallia International Piano Concorso, Murray Dranoff 2 piano and many other competitions. Since 2011, she has directed the piano program at the Philadelphia International Music Festival and has also been on the piano faculty at Irvine Valley College and London Performing Academy of Music.
Reminder: Please silence cell phones and other electronic devices for all performances. PIMF is a program of Sandy Marcucci International Camps, Inc.
“Clair de lune” from Suite bergamasque, CD 82 Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op.23
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
3 Preludes, Op.28
Polonaise in A-flat Major “Heroic”, Op.53
“Der Müller und der Bach” from Müllerlieder von Franz Schubert, S.565 Franz List (1811–1886)
“Sonetto 104 del Petrarca” from Années de pèlerinage II, S.161/5 Franz Schubert (1797–1886)
Hungarian Rhapsody No.2, S.244/2
Caprice esagnol, Op.37 Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925)
Argentinian Dance, Op.2 No.3 “Danza del gaucho matrero” Alberto Ginastera (1916–1983)
Reminder: Please silence cell phones and other electronic devices for all performances. PIMF is a program of Sandy Marcucci International Camps, Inc.
