About Sara Daneshpour
Pianist Sara Daneshpour’s performances have earned high praise from audiences and critics alike. The Mercury News called her performance of Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra “sensational. Strength, finesse, passion; it was all there.” The winner of many international competition awards, Ms. Daneshpour was the First Prize, Gold Medal, and Audience Award winner at the VI International Russian Music Piano Competition in San Jose, Second Prize winner of the 2007 William Kapell International Piano Competition, and she medaled at Barcelona’s Maria Canals International Piano Competition. She joined the roster of Astral Artists as a winner of its 2010 National Auditions. Ms. Daneshpour has performed extensively in her native Washington, D.C., and has appeared in performance in New York, Philadelphia, and Cleveland, and internationally in Canada, Japan, Russia, Germany, Finland, Greece, Denmark, and Sweden. She has appeared on the stages of such prestigious venues as the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Great Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. She recently performed Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, and upcoming engagements include a recital at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., and a performance on Astral’s series, in the Philadelphia Brahms Festival. Sara Daneshpour is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Leon Fleisher. She currently studies with Dr. Oleg Volkov.
Updated: JUNE 2010
