Sylvia Zaremba

American classical pianist (1931-2005). A child prodigy, Ms. Zaremba gave her first public performance at age five. She debuted with the Cleveland Orchestra under Artur Rodzinski at age ten, and gave her New York recital debut at Town Hall in the same year. In addition to tours of the European music capitals, Ms. Zaremba appeared with most of the major symphony orchestras in the United States, working with renowned conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy, and Leopold Stokowski. Ms. Zaremba was trained at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia by Isabella Vengerova, and she was an acclaimed teacher herself, serving for a number of years as the chairman of the keyboard department at the Ohio State University School of Music.