Pianist Margarita Rovenskaya is a sought-after performer in the US and abroad, with solo and chamber recitals in Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Center, Zimmerli Museum, Ukrainian Museum, Teatro Machiavelli in Sicily, and Salmagundi Art Gallery, among others. Prizewinner of the WPTA Finland International Competition, Constantine the Great International Competition, American Music Talent Competition, Mary Smart International Concerto Competition, and Chopin Society Malaysia Competition, Margarita regularly appears in recital series nationwide.
Dr. Rovenskaya champions Czech and Ukrainian composers. She performs in in the annual Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival, and is co-founder of the Ukrainian Music Initiative, a collaboration between four artists to elevate Ukrainian Classical Music to the western canon. Passionate about Czech solo piano music, she performed Dvořák’s complete Poetic Tone Pictures at the Czech Center NYC in 2021, celebrating Dvořák’s 150th birthday; and regularly programs Czech piano music in recitals all over the US. Dr. Rovenskaya is an acclaimed solo artist, premiering a performance of Chopin’s New Waltz in Carnegie Hall in November 2024.
An avid chamber musician, she collaborates with acclaimed musicians and has performed at festivals such as the Manchester Music Festival, Savannah Philharmonic’s Larsen Spotlight Series as a Rising Star, and Bay Chamber Music Series. Dr. Rovenskaya is also featured on composer Finola Merivale's album, Tus, which was recorded by Desdemona Ensemble and won Best Contemporary Classical Album in 2022. It features “Release”, a work for violin and piano, with Dr. Rovenskaya on piano.
Born in Ukraine, Margarita Rovenskaya began studying the piano at the age of six. She earned her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance at Oberlin Conservatory in May 2012, her Masters in Piano Studies at New York University in May 2014, and her Doctorate of Musical Arts at Rutgers University in 2022. Her teachers include Efrem Briskin, Peter Takacs, Eteri Andjaparidze, and Vladimir Valjarevic.
Dr. Rovenskaya is currently based in New York City. She has served as Co-Adjunct Faculty at Rutgers University, Adjunct Piano Instructor at New York University, and Head of the Piano Department at Newark School of the Arts, as well as the Spence School. Dr. Rovenskaya is on summer faculty programs at Bay Chamber’s Envision Chamber Workshop, and Luzerne Music Center’s Junior Session.
She runs her own private studio, serves as the President of the Piano Teachers Congress of New York, and is on faculty at Mannes School of Music.