VOICES...Humanity as Art!
The Chopin Salon featuring Margarita Shevchenko, piano
Winner of the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland
Saturday, October 17, 2026
Doors open at 7:00 PM Cash Bar • Concert starts at 7:30 PM
Main Gallery at ArtServe 1350 East Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304
General Admission seating is complimentary with registration.
VIP tickets are $25.00 and include reception with the artist.
Voices is a new GENVAS four-part original classical music Salon series that brings internationally celebrated artists into intimate spaces where music and storytelling confront the human and civil rights issues shaping our world today. Each program gives voice to communities whose histories, struggles, triumphs, and identities deserve not only recognition, but dignity.
The Chopin Salon featuring Margarita Shevchenko, piano, Winner of the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland is part of the Voices series. Voices is a four-part original opera Salon series that brings internationally celebrated artists into intimate spaces where music and storytelling confront the human and civil rights issues shaping our world today. Each program gives voice to communities whose histories, struggles, triumphs, and identities deserve not only recognition, but dignity.
Born in the Ural region of Russia and raised in a deeply musical family, Margarita Shevchenko began piano studies at the age of five before continuing her education at the prestigious Moscow Central Music School and later the Moscow State Conservatory. Her extraordinary artistry quickly gained international recognition, including First Prize at the Göttingen Chopin Piano Competition in Germany and distinction as a prizewinner at the renowned 1990 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland. Her international concert career has carried her across the world’s great stages, while her devotion to education has led her to teach masterclasses globally and serve on the faculties of both the Cleveland Institute of Music and Michigan State University. After moving to the United States in 1994, she continued advanced studies with celebrated pianist Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music.