The recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Prize, Philadelphia-born Lydia Artymiw has performed with over one hundred orchestras world-wide including the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, National Symphony, LA Philharmonic, and the St. Luke’s and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras, collaborating with such renowned conductors as André Previn, Seiji Ozawa, Osmo Vänskä, Simon Rattle, Stanislaw Skrowaczewksi, Norman del Mar, and David Zinman.
She has performed solo recitals in most major American cities, important European music centers, and throughout the Far East. Critics have acclaimed her seven recordings for Chandos, and she has also recorded for Bridge, Centaur, and Naxos. Her debut Chandos “Variations” CD won Gramophone Magazine’s “Best of the Year” award, and her recording of the “Complete Mendelssohn Cello/Piano Works” with cellist Marcy Rosen for Bridge was nominated for a 2018 Grammy. Artymiw has participated in over 50 festivals including Aspen, Badenweiler, Bantry, Bravo! Vail, Caramoor, Chautauqua, Hollywood Bowl, Marlboro, Montréal, Mostly Mozart, RPPF, Seattle, and Tucson. Artymiw has collaborated with renowned artists Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Stoltzman, Arnold Steinhardt, Kim Kashkashian, Benita Valente, John Aler, Marcy Rosen, and the Guarneri, Tokyo, American, Alexander, Borromeo, Miami, Orion, and Shanghai Quartets.
A recipient of top prizes in the 1976 Leventritt and the 1978 Leeds International Competitions, she graduated from Philadelphia’s University of the Arts and studied with Gary Graffman for twelve years. Artymiw was a juror for the 2015 Cliburn Junior International Piano Competition, First China International Competition, Beijing (2019), 2017 Lang Lang Futian International Piano Competition, the 2022 New York International Piano Competition, the 2023 Charles Wadsworth Competition in Georgia, and the 2024 Montréal International Competition. She has also been a juror for twenty piano concerto competitions at Juilliard and has been a guest piano teacher at Juilliard since 2015.
Artymiw was Distinguished McKnight Professor of Piano at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis from 1989-2020 and was awarded Emerita status. She received the 2015 “Excellence in Graduate Teaching” Award and the 2000 Dean’s Medal. Please visit her website at lydiaartymiw.com
