Sasha Kasman Laude

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Pianist Sasha Kasman Laude’s playing is praised by critics as “powerful and vivid” (Palm Beach Arts Review) and having “such an abundance of intelligence that it can only be described as relentless” (Ludwig Van Toronto). Kasman Laude appears as a guest artist and teacher at the invitation of such festivals as International Keyboard Institute and Festival, Southeastern Piano Festival, Utah State University Summer Piano Festival, Kyiv International Summer Academy (Ukraine), Busan International Music Academy (South Korea), and PianoCity Milano (Italy). She has given solo recitals at such major venues as Steinway Hall in New York City, Yamaha Ginza Hall in Tokyo, Salle Cortot in Paris, and Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. In 2019, she was named a Young Artist-in-Residence of National Public Radio’s Performance Today, hosted by Fred Child. Her playing and interviews have been broadcast on NPR stations nationwide. Kasman Laude’s recent engagements include performances for the Birmingham Chamber Music Society, Eisendrath Series of Ann Arbor, MI, InConcert Series of Apalachicola, FL, International Keyboard Odyssiad and Festival, Vivace International Music Festival, and pianoSonoma, as well as soloist appearances with the Dayton and Ann Arbor symphony orchestras and Luminous Voices Ensemble.

Kasman Laude has triumphed in numerous international competitions; most recently, she became a finalist in the 2022 Honens International Piano Competition (Canada). She has been a soloist with over a dozen symphony orchestras in the USA and abroad, including the Juilliard Orchestra and Calgary Symphony, and has appeared seven times with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. She has worked under the batons of maestros including Jeffrey Kahane, Neal Gittleman, Gregory Vajda, Jeffrey Milarsky, Yaniv Attar, Christopher Confessore, Jacques Cohen, Mykola Dyadura, Nazar Yakobenchuk, and Natalia Ponomarchuk. Kasman Laude is an advocate and experienced performer of contemporary music, premiering works of living composers Stewart Goodyear, Marc Migó, Nathan Daughtrey, Zachary Detrick, and Eric Mobley. In addition to her vibrant solo playing, Kasman Laude is an enthusiastic chamber musician and has collaborated with such distinguished players as Martin Beaver, Blake Pouliot, the Viano, Aeolus, and Fry Street String Quartets, and the New York Chamber Players. She and her father Yakov Kasman have been an internationally-touring piano duo for fourteen years

A native of Moscow, Kasman Laude began her musical studies with her parents, acclaimed pianists and pedagogues Yakov and Tatiana Kasman. She continued studying with her father at the University of Alabama at Birmingham went on to earn an MM degree from the Juilliard School, studying with Robert McDonald. In the spring of 2023, Kasman Laude received a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan, where she studied with Logan Skelton, won the school concerto competition,and received the School of Music, Theater, and Dance's top graduation honor, the Earl V. Moore Award.

In the fall of 2023, Kasman Laude joined the faculty of Utah State University’s Caine College of the Arts as Assistant Professor of Piano in the Department of Music. She has previously lectured and given masterclasses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Calgary, Lee University, Bowling Green State University, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. She is regularly invited to adjudicate and give masterclasses for local and state competitions and organizations, including the most recent Utah Music Teachers Association state conference. She is passionate about music outreach and has given over one hundred educational performances in schools and community venues in large part as a Fellow of PianoArts, Inc. Kasman Laude’s teaching emphasizes stylistic clarity rooted in academic study and values the expressive traditions of the Russian school, as well as a deep awareness of pianistic health based in the Taubman approach and Alexander technique.