Viktoria Reiswich-Dapp, DMus

About

Lauded for her “high-profile skills” (The Frankfurter Neue Presse), her “clarity of touch … stylistic sense… [and] breathtaking suppleness” (Pforzheimer Zeitung), Viktoria Reiswich-Dapp has been declared “an impeccable soloist” by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Viktorias extraordinary artistry has been recognized with national and international prizes and enthusiastic praise. She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Austria, Canada, Croatia, Germany, Gran Canaria, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Turkey, the USA, and Uzbekistan. In her performances Viktoria has a predilection for intermedial performance strategies that combine music with various media, explore the tension between the live and the mediatized, and reveal the socio-cultural context of both work and performance.

A recipient of two Steinway & Sons Top Piano Teacher awards, Viktoria also has a deep commitment to music education. She teaches piano performance, piano literature, chamber music, and piano pedagogy at the University of Alberta, and frequently shares her experiences in lectures and masterclasses, and as a festival adjudicator. Viktoria also contributes to the Edmonton music community as a board member of the Anne Burrows Music Foundation, and as faculty advisor for ARMTA’s collegiate chapter at the UofA.

Viktoria was born in Uzbekistan to ethnic German parents and received her early training in the tradition of the Russian piano school. At the age of 13 she was accepted as a pre-student at the University of Music in Karlsruhe (Germany) where she studied with Sontraud Speidel (a student of Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Branka Musulin, and Géza Anda). Viktoria continued her studies with Irina Edelstein (a student of Jacob Milstein) and Joachim Volkmann (a student of Wilhelm Kempff) at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts from where she graduated in piano performance and in piano pedagogy. She came to Canada as the first and only performer to be awarded the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship to study at the University of Alberta under Jacques Després (a student of György Sebök and Gilbert Kalish). Viktoria constantly pushes her boundaries as an artist and in 2024 received the Pamela Farmer Scholarship from Royal Canadian College of Organists to start organ lessons with Marnie Giesbrecht.

Teaching

Piano

Piano Literature

Piano Pedagogy

Chamber Music

MUSIC 303 - Piano Pedagogy I

Prerequisites: MUSIC 221, 224, 225, or equivalent.

MUSIC 304 - Piano Pedagogy II

Prerequisite: MUSIC 303.

MUSIC 603 - Practicum in Piano Teaching

Prerequisite: MUSIC 304 or consent of Department.

MUSIC 604 - Piano Pedagogy

Prerequisite: MUSIC 304 or consent of Department.

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