ABOUT

Dr. Natasha Stojanovska is a Macedonian-American concert pianist, composer, music theorist, and educator whose artistry spans solo performance, chamber music, vocal coaching, recording, and composition. Praised for performances of emotional depth and intellectual rigor, she has appeared across the United States, Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Middle East, earning recognition as both a compelling interpreter and a passionate advocate for underrepresented voices in classical music.

Recent highlights include solo appearances at Guarneri Hall in Chicago — presented by Augusta Read Thomas — the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts broadcast live on WFMT, the Steinway Series at Saint Philip’s in the Hills, the Holy Name Cathedral Concert Series, the Gilmore Piano Festival, and the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium, and the Henry Fogel Presents Concert Series. In 2026 she joined the Symphony of the Americas in Fort Lauderdale for She Did It Her Way, produced by conductor Luke Frazier. Her collaborators have included Rachael Barton Pine, Shulamit Ran, Carmen-Helena Téllez, and conductors Keith Lockhart, Tsung Yeh, Guillermo Figueroa, and Saša Nikolovski-Gjumar.

Stojanovska is a recording artist on Navona Records. Her debut album Uncommon Voices: Women Composers from Eastern Europe (2022) was reviewed by MusicWeb International and broadcast on WFMT Chicago, KHFM New Mexico, and Classical Discoveries. The forthcoming Uncommon Voices, Part II: American Women Composers — supported by a Musicians Club of Women grant — continues an ongoing series extending to African and Latin women composers. As a composer, her works for solo piano, chamber ensembles, and art song, rooted in Macedonian folk tradition, have been performed at festivals across the US, Europe, and Australia.

An accomplished vocal coach, Stojanovska serves on the faculty of the Taos Opera Institute alongside Elizabeth Futral, Susanne Mentzer, and Amanda Majeski, and has served as Pianist on Call for the Santa Fe Opera. She prepared soprano Deborah Mayer for her Metropolitan Opera debut in Die Walküre. Together with her sister Marina, she co-directs the Stojanovska Sisters Piano Duo, a partnership of more than 25 years. As a concert producer and curator, she has presented international musicians at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, SITE Santa Fe Museum, Guarneri Hall, and PianoForte Studios in Chicago.

As an educator, Stojanovska has taught music theory, aural skills, and piano at Northwestern University, Indiana University South Bend, the University of New Mexico, and Merit School of Music in Chicago, where she currently teaches. Beginning Fall 2026, she will serve as Performance Chair of the Musicians Club of Women, Chicago. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance with a minor in Music Theory from Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, where she studied with James Giles and graduated Cum Laude with Program Honors, an Artist Diploma and Master of Music from Indiana University South Bend under Alexander Toradze, and a Bachelor of Music from Lynn University under Roberta Rust.