Dr. Evangeliya Delizonas

Evangeliya Delizonas has appeared in recital throughout the United States and Europe, performing at venues including Carnegie Weill Recital Hall and Merkin Concert Hall in New York; the Soka Performing Arts Center in Aliso Viejo, California; Alfred Cortot Hall and Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris; the Palace of the United Nations in Geneva; the Lithuanian National Philharmonic in Vilnius; the Latvian Academy of Music in Riga; the Austrian–Russian Culture Institute in Vienna; the Athens Conservatoire; the Beethoven Concert Hall of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow; the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall of the Moscow Philharmonic.

A prizewinner in numerous competitions, Delizonas received First Prize in the USC Concerto Competition (2024) and Les Grands Concours Internationalesd’Été (2023), as well as Third Prize at the NTD International Piano Competition in New York (2022). She maintains an active collaborative practice alongside her performing career, having served as collaborative pianist at the Moscow State Bolshoi Ballet Academy of Choreography and the Vocal Department of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. In the United States, she has held collaborative positions supporting USC's instrumental, vocal, conducting, choral, and opera programs, as well as the Vocal Department of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

Born into a family of musicians, she began piano studies at the age of three and made her orchestral debut at five. In 1998, she entered the Central Music School of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she studied with Tamara Koloss. She went on to earn her Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctor of Arts degrees at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Professor Ludmila Roshchina. She continued her training in the United States on a full-tuition scholarship at Park University's International Center for Music, earning an Artist Diploma in Piano Performance in 2020 under Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Stanislav Ioudenitch. She completed her Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance at the USC Thornton School of Music in 2025 under Stewart Gordon, where she also served as a Graduate Assistant Lecturer and received the Outstanding Keyboard Studies Top Graduate Award.

With a multicultural background rooted in Greek, Russian, and Korean heritage, Delizonas brings cultural awareness and artistic depth to her teaching, mentoring the next generation of musicians through a holistic approach that honors individual growth and interpretive imagination.

As an educator, Dr. Delizonas draws on the rich legacy of the Russian piano school alongside the breadth of the American tradition, guiding students toward technical command and genuine artistic self-discovery in equal measure.Outside the concert hall, she enjoys classical literature, poetry, and arthouse cinema, which often inform her interpretive approach.

Websites:
https://www.evangeliya.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@Delizonas