Hailed as “one of the last pianists in the grand Romantic tradition of Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Rubinstein”, world renowned pianist Barbara Nissman makes her debut on Sunday, March 24 at 2 PM bringing her masterful, virtuosic bravura to Foxburg’s Lincoln Hall in a program of rapturous Romantic music. Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts is pleased to present Ms. Nissman in its first classical music performance of the 2024 season.

Barbara Nissman’s international career was personally launched by Eugene Ormandy who engaged her as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has performed with leading orchestras in Europe and America, including the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, the National Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra, working with some of the major conductors of our time including Riccardo Muti, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Leonard Slatkin.

Join us for her breathtaking, ravishing interpretations of Romantic masterpieces…

“That a musical performance literally can be breathtaking was demonstrated… at the end of pianist Barbara Nissman’s ravishing performance of the Chopin Db major Nocturne, an audience held its collective breath for what seemed an eternity. No one wanted to shatter the magic.”