Paulo Steinberg, piano with Dita Krenberga, flute

Dr. Paulo Steinberg  has performed as a soloist and as a collaborative pianist across the U.S., Canada, South America, and Europe, including prestigious music venues such as the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo. He often serves as an adjudicator in competitions, and offers master classes, lectures, workshops, and performances in the U.S. and abroad. His summer projects often include teaching at the Saarburg Chamber Music Summer Festival in Germany and traveling around Europe, Brazil and/or Canada. His research interests focus on piano technique and Brazilian music.  As part of his sabbatical leave, Paulo is planning to live in Latvia for 2-3 months in the spring of 2024 to study and perform Latvian piano solo and chamber music.  

Besides teaching and performing, Steinberg has served in several administrative positions. Currently, he is vice-president of the Harrisonburg Music Teachers Association, and served as president of the Virginia Music Teachers Association in the past. He is a board member on Music in Every Home which provides scholarships for underrepresented piano and guitar students. 

Dr. Steinberg holds Piano Performance degrees from Conservatório “Carlos Gomes” and Universidade de Sāo Paulo in Brazil (undergraduate degree), Arizona State University (M.M) and Indiana University (D.M.). His main piano teachers are Carlos Yansen, Paulo Gori, Gilberto Tinetti, and Evelyne Brancart.   He is featured in the following CD albums:  The Recital Clarinetist  in collaboration with clarinetist Dr. Janice Minor;  Duos, with clarinetist Dr. Sarunas Jankauskas;  Time, Place, Spirit, with flutist Dr. Beth Chandler Cahill; and his solo CD album  Alma Brasileira.  The latter was featured on the Brazilian film “As Cadeiras”. For more information, go to  www.paulosteinberg.com  or follow him on Instagram (@paulosteinberg).    

Flutist DITA KRENBERGA is known as one of Latvia’s brightest soloists, a delicate chamber musician and an accomplished orchestra artist. She studied at the class of Imants Sneibis at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, as well as with the world-renowned flutist James Galway whose recommendation gave her a chance of receiving the Leonard Bernstein Fellowship for the Boston Symphony Orchestra classes at Tanglewood Institute from 1989 to 1990. There Dita worked with world-famous authorities – Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Jeffrey Tate, Yo-Yo Ma and others. She received the Gustav Golden Award for her accomplishments. Dita Krenberga has studied with distinguished flute professors – Aurèle Nicolet, William Bennett and Alain Marion.

She has received high awards in several prestigious competitions – 1st prize and an award as the youngest participant at “Concertino Praha-80”, Grand Prix and golden medal in the 34th  International Maria Canals competition in Spain in 1988. Dita has become a laureate of the “Prague Spring” competition in 1991 and has received a diploma in the 48th CIEM International music competition in Geneve, Switzerland.
Dita received the Grand Latvian Music Award in 2000. Dita Krenberga was awarded with the Order of the Three Stars in 2009. The musician regularly performs  in Latvia and abroad: in Europe, the USA and Canada. She has also performed in Australia and Japan. Dita Krenberga was the principal flutist in the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2018. She has performed as a soloist with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, the chamber orchestra Rīgas Kamermūziķi, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the New Chamber Orchestra, The London Mozart Players, the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, the Swedish chamber orchestra Musicae Vitae etc. 

Dita Krenberga has recorded several albums and acted in several Latvian movies.