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Develop your capacity as a performer, collaborator, and coach in a learning environment as distinctive as the world-class faculty mentoring you. Through rigorous training, private lessons, immersive classes and ensembles, and a variety of performance opportunities, you'll grow as a pianist versed in both instrumental and vocal collaboration. Start your career in New York City, taking advantage of unique opportunities to learn and play with working professionals. At Mannes, you'll chart your own course while engaging with a diverse and thriving community that will support you in becoming a whole musician and 21st-century artist.

At Mannes, you'll find the flexibility and freedom you need to direct your development as a collaborative artist. Receive rigorous conservatory training from a faculty of renowned revolutionary musicians while exploring new music, improvisation, real-world experiences, and cross-disciplinary projects.

Students selected for a degree in Collaborative Piano enter the program as highly proficient pianists. The atmosphere of the program places an emphasis on intimacy, trust, community, and risk taking.;

In this program, each student develops their capacity as a pianist as they engage in the close study of multiple languages, the art of phrasing and interpretation, and the analysis of lieder and poetry. Students develop their interpersonal skills as they build an understanding of collaboration with singers and instrumentalists in different musical situations.

Collaborative Piano students become an integral part of the Voice department and Mannes Opera productions and engage in masterclasses with renowned collaborative pianists, music directors, and singers.

Play at landmark venues like Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. Collaborate in cutting-edge performances with our many ensembles, including Mannes American Composers Ensemble and the College of Performing Arts Theater Orchestra. Train to collaborate with other outstanding performers as you gain the skills needed to start your own label, manage your own publicity, and create your own groundbreaking work.

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Mannes School of Music offers an academic experience that pairs artistic foundations with a rich variety of entrepreneurial and experiential opportunities. Learn more about our degree programs.

Our Faculty

Our award-winning faculty bring their experience as performers, musicologists, creators, and educators into the classroom-challenging and guiding students to become better artists.

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Performance & Learning Opportunities

Mannes students engage in unique performance experiences, collaborating with students across The New School and partner organizations like the International Contemporary Ensemble and the Martha Graham Dance Company.

Take the Stage in New York City.

Perform at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, apprentice with members of the Orchestra of St. Luke's, join the Martha Graham Dance Company in riveting productions, and take the stage with The Mannes Opera. Experience firsthand what it's like to be a working musician in one of the most vibrant music scenes in the world.

Experiment. Collaborate. Perform.

Don't just learn how to play your instrument; learn how to perform. Develop your artistry alongside peers from the College of Performing Arts, Parsons, and across The New School by creating multidisciplinary projects with theater directors, designers, and media students. Record an album with jazz students. Make new work with actors, writers, and directors. You'll never run out of opportunities to grow and showcase your talent in new and original ways.

Chart Your Own Course.

Today's artists are makers and doers. Performers are composers, composers are improvisers, musicians are changemakers. At Mannes, you can develop your artistry through a curriculum that goes far beyond that of the traditional conservatory. In courses like The Stone Workshops, Improv Artists Lab, and The Digital Revolution, you'll have the opportunity to play alongside boundary-breaking artists and award-winning faculty members. Take courses that will challenge you to make music in new and inspired ways.

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Wednesday, October 14th, 5:30PM to Thursday, October 15th, 3:59AM

Meet prominent Ukrainian Composer and Pianist Oleh Bezborodko

ABOUT OLEG BEZBORODKOOleg Bezborodko is a Ukrainian pianist and composer whose works have been performed in more than twenty-five countries across Europe, North America, and Asia. His artistic path combines performance, composition, and teaching, making him one of the most versatile representatives of contemporary Ukrainian music.After studying piano and composition in Ukraine and Switzerland, he earned a Ph.D. from the Ukrainian National Academy of Music, where he currently serves as Head of the Piano Department. Alongside his academic role, he is in demand as both a chamber musician and an interpreter of contemporary repertoire. His interpretations of Valentin Silvestrov’s music, in particular, have been praised by the composer himself.Oleg’s music has been performed by leading ensembles such as musikFabrik, the Chain Ensemble, and the Kyiv Piano Duo, as well as by acclaimed soloists including pianists Stephen Gutman, Roglit Ishay, Timothy Hoft, and Dmytro Choni; violinists Dmytro Tkachenko and Orest Smovzh; and violist Tatjana Masurenko. He has collaborated with all major Ukrainian orchestras, both as a pianist and as a composer, and his works have been performed under the direction of conductors such as Andrey Boreyko, Hobart Earle, Kirill Karabits, Volodymyr Kozhukhar, Vincent Kozlowski, Ivan Ostapovych, Viktor Ploskina, Natalia Ponomarchuk, Volodymyr Sheyko, and Volodymyr Sirenko.His music has been presented at international festivals including Kyiv Music Fest, Contrasts (Lviv), Two Days and Two Nights (Odesa), Euphonie (Warsaw), Iš ARTI (Kaunas), the Biennial Festival of New Music at Florida State University (Tallahassee), INS OFFENE (Berlin), and the Brandenburgisches Fest der Neuen Musik (Potsdam).A laureate of national and international competitions, he received the Levko Revutsky Music Prize (2008) from the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and the Mykola Lysenko Composition Award (2017). His works have been commissioned by the Goethe-Institut, the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, the Ukrainian National Academic Concert Band, Musica Mundi Frankfurt, and the Lviv Organ Hall.Since 2023, Oleg has served as Artistic Director of the “Kyiv Music Premieres” festival, one of Ukraine’s leading platforms for new music.In recent years, his orchestral works have gained particular recognition. In 2025, his Symphony Peine Del Viento (Comb of the Wind) received second prize at the San Sebastián Symphony Concours, organized by County Hall Arts in London. That same year, on June 10, his Symphony Unbroken was performed alongside Beethoven’s Eroica at the closing concert of Kharkiv Music Fest — the first symphonic concert in Kharkiv since the start of the full-scale war.Presented by Mannes Sounds Festival in collaboration with the Mannes Composition Department / Composition Forum.