Svetlana Ostrovskaya is a pianist, music educator and lecturer, with more than 25 years of teaching and performing experience. She joined the New England Conservatory Preparatory School Piano Faculty in 1992. Mrs. Ostrovskaya is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Newton Music Academy since 2004. Throughout her musical career, Ms. Ostrovskaya has given solo and chamber performances, radio and TIV appearances, lectures, and master classes on various pedagogical topics, educational concert series in US and Russia. Her students' achievements include winning competitions, solo and chamber performances in renowned music halls of the country as well as performances in their own communities.
Her passion for teaching motivated her to look for enjoyable and effective ways to help students of all levels and ages to develop physical ease and facility at the piano, love for producing a beautiful sound and attention to a “graceful dance” of their hands and fingers on the keyboard. This approach helps students to avoid unnecessary tension, technical struggles, and unwanted habits, and as the result to achieve more musical performance with less effort. A fascination with early childhood musical education, which started when her first daughter was born, motivated Ms. Ostrovskaya to create a number of various engaging musical programs for young children. The goal of these classes was to introduce music as a language to her youngest students: to inspire them to continue musical studies and playing instruments. That is how her popular Musical ABC program was born.
Ms. Ostrovskaya holds her Master of Music in Piano Performance and Music Pedagogy and Bachelor of Music from Gorky Conservatory, Russia.