Dr. Larisa Simington

Piano

Dr. Larisa Simington is currently Adjunct Instructor of piano at Eastern Michigan University and Adjunct Professor of piano and music theory at Concordia University, Ann Arbor.

Dr. Simington received her doctorate from the Eastman School of Music in 2007. She studied with Rebecca Penneys and held the Edith Babcock award. She received her master’s degree from the University of Toronto in 2002, where she studied under Patricia Parr and held the Alberto Guerrero fellowship. Her undergraduate degree is from the Gh. Dima Conservatory in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Dr. Simington has also taught at the New England Music Camp and the Faber Piano Institute. She has performed extensively as a soloist and as a chamber musician in Romania, France, Canada and the US. She has collaborated with musicians from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Eastman faculty. While she was a doctoral candidate at the Eastman School of Music, she participated in source research on George Enescu’s manuscripts in at the national archival sites in Bucharest. In 2009, she performed various works in the Music Now Festival at Eastern Michigan University, including the world premiere of Brian McCloskey’s Two Poems of Robert Frost.