Victoria Bragin
Huntington Museum of Art
Music Artist in Residence
Huntington, WV
Email:  music@victoriabragin.com

(NOTE: Please click here for Ms. Bragin's work in chemical education.)


  		Pianist Victoria Bragin with Van Cliburn after the Amateur Cliburn Piano Competition.
 
Victoria Bragin with Van Cliburn

 

 
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   NEWS:
  • For the article, "Chemists Making Music" by Joan Stephenson which appeared in the Winter 2004 issue of the American Chemical Society's Chemistry, click here. If unable to access the issue through the previous link, the issue in pdf format may be obtained here.

  • Bragin produced the first "Huntington Museum of Art Composers' Festival" which took place on October 11 and 12, 2003. Details may be obtained by clicking here.
     
  • Bragin was recently featured by West Virginia Public Radio's In Touch with the Arts with Laura Harbert Allen.
     
  • Bragin was honored by the The Herald-Dispatch, of Huntington, West Virginia, with its 2002 Citizen Award for the Arts. Since 1987, The Herald-Dispatch has been recognizing outstanding people of the Tri-State with its annual Citizen Awards, which honor citizenship, volunteer efforts, business innovation, athletics and the arts. The Award for the Arts was created in 2001 and recognizes contributions to the arts or accomplishments in the field of arts in the Tri-State. The first recipient was wildlife artist Chuck Ripper; Bragin is the second.
     
  • Bragin was recently interviewed by Chemical and Engineering News: "C&EN Talks with Victoria Bragin: Van Cliburn Award winner and science educator balances excellence in piano and chemistry," Chemical and Engineering News, Volume 80, Number 49 (December 9, 2002). If the given link does not work, C&EN subrscribers will be able to access this article via this link.
     
  • The Smithsonian Associates presented Bragin at a sold-out concert in the Marion & Gustave Ring Auditorium of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC on Sunday, October 27, at 4:00 pm. She performed works by Haydn, Debussy, Bartók, and Chopin.
     
  • Victoria Bragin, who was a chemistry professor at Pasadena City College (PCC) in California until August 31, 2002, has accepted an invitation to be the Music Artist-in-Residence at the Huntington Museum of Art in West Virginia. However, she will continue working on her chemistry projects at PCC.
     
  • Victoria Bragin was co-winner of the First Prize at the Third Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, otherwise known as the "Amateur Cliburn," held in Fort Worth, TX in June 2002. Bragin also won the Audience Award, the award for Best Performance of a Modern Work, and the award for Best Performance of a Work from the Romantic Era. To listen to an interview by National Public Radio's Performance Today soon after the competitition, including a recording of Bragin's performance of Debussy's Feux d'artifice during the semifinal round, click here.
     
 

 

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