American pianist Sondra Tammam has received enthusiastic acclaim for her performances in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. As the unanimous winner of both the Frinna Awerbuch International Competition of the New York Congress of Piano Teachers, the John Meyers Foundation Grant, and the Paderewski Foundation competition, Ms. Tammam’s concerts have taken her to diverse venues including Merkin Hall in New York, the Harvard Musical Association in Boston, Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Goethe Institute in Casablanca. 

  A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and the Juilliard School, where she received Bachelor and Master of Music degrees respectively, her teachers have included Edwin Hughes, Martin Canin, and Rosina Lhevinne. A faculty member of the Taubman Institute, she coaches with Dorothy Taubman. Ms. Tammam has served as Associate Professor at the Manhattan School of Music and as Classical Music Coordinator of the Summer Arts Institute at Rutgers University.

  As an active chamber musician, she has appeared in performances with members of the New York Philharmonic and the Audobon Quartet.  She has been featured as soloist with orchestras in the United States led by conductors including Alan Birney, Nicholas Flagello, and Sixten Ehrling.  She has broadcasted on WQXR and WNYC in New York and AFN Radio in Germany, and has appeared on WCBS, WOR and PBS television.  Other awards include the Juilliard Concerto Competition, the Kosciuszko Chopin Competition, and the Gold Medal of the National Guild.

  Her engagements this season have included recitals in Rome, Italy, Pepperdine University, and master classes and lectures for the Music Educators Association of New Jersey, the Westchester Music Teachers Association (N.Y.). She has appeared at the Music Teachers Association conventions and adjudicated for New York début competitions of the Leschetitsky Association and Piano Teachers Congress. Ms. Tammam was selected to be listed in Who’s Who of American Women 2000 and is represented by Primo Artists, Ltd. Her first compact disc includes selections of Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt and her newly released disc includes works by Mussorgsky, Schumann and Ben-Haim. 

New York: “She impresses as an exceptionally well-schooled pianist, with ingratiating musical instincts. The sheer accuracy of Miss Tammam’s transversals...was certainly impressive.”
                                                                         - Joseph Horowitz, The New York Times

Amsterdam: “She displayed much virtuosity.”
                                                                         - Het Parool

Berlin: “Individuality, brilliance, and technical assurance on a high level; these features are always present.”
                                                                         - Der Tagesspiegel

The New Review of Records: “Playing with great intensity, she brings out the lyricism and underlying violence of Beethoven”