Piano teacher Sterling, Virginia Lisa Emenheiser Sarratt updated
Lisa Emenheiser is widely recognized as a leading keyboard artist. A graduate of the Juilliard School, where she earned both Bachelor’s and Master’s of Music degrees, she was a scholarship student of Ania Dorfman. Ms. Emenheiser is a winner of The Young Artist in Recital and The National Arts Club competitions. Additionally, she was a Helena Rubinstein Foundation grant winner, a Lilly Folles Fund winner, and was recognized with the William Petshek Award.
Ms. Emenheiser has performed in recital at Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fischer Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall and appears frequently in concerts at the National Gallery, Phillips Collection, Smithsonian Institute, Kennedy Center and at the embassies of France, Austria, Germany, Britain and Spain. Ms. Emenheiser has appeared as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Richmond Symphony, the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, the Virginia Chamber Orchestra, and was one of the featured soloists at the Kennedy Center’s Piano 2000 Festival. Ms. Emenheiser was also a soloist for the Kennedy Center’s “Journey to America” Festival held in 2002. She has been a featured harpsichordist and fortepianist at the Kennedy Center’s Mozart Festival.
An established chamber musician, Ms. Emenheiser has performed across the globe with Julius Baker, Eugenia Zukerman, Ransom Wilson, Jean-Pierre Rampal and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, as well as with principal members of the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Symphony and the National Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared in solo and chamber performances in virtually every major U.S. city as well as internationally, including performances in London, Manchester, Berne, Haifa, Nice, and Mexico City. Ms. Emenheiser has performed in numerous summer music festival, including Aspen, Strings in the Mountains, Snake River Chamber Players, and Masterworks. Her vast orchestral performances are equally as extensive, including tours of Europe, and American residencies in Alaska, Maine, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Texas, Alabama, Vermont, Oklahoma, and North Dakota.
Ms. Emenheiser has served as artist in residence at The Washington Conservatory of Music as a member of the Opus 3 Trio with cellist David Hardy and violinist Charles Wetherbee. Currently, she is adjunct pianist for the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Slatkin, as well as pianist for the 20th Century Consort in Washington, D.C. Ms. Emenheiser was recently featured on national television as an expert artist commentator and performer in the PBS documentary entitled “Exploring Your Brain”, in which she performed Ginastera’s Piano Sonata No. 1 and discussed the topic of memory.
Ms. Emenheiser has recorded for the Pro Arte, VAI Audio, Centaur, Delos, and Cascades labels.
