A native of Ukraine, Sophia Agranovich won the All-Ukrainian Young Artists Competition at ten, being the youngest participant. Many of her concert appearances were broadcasted nationwide. Her teachers included Anna Stolarevich and renowned professor Alexander Edelman, peers of Vladimir Horowitz at the Kiev Conservatory in the class of Felix Blumenfeld.

At fifteen, Ms. Agranovich immigrated to the USA and entered the Juilliard School in New York City as a scholarship student of legendary professor Sascha Gorodnitzki, who himself was a student of Josef Lhevinne (peer of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin).

While at Juilliard, she also studied with the eminent Nadia Reisenberg, a disciple of the St. Petersburg piano school of Leonid Nikolaev and student of Josef Hofmann and Alexander Lambert - student of Franz Liszt, as well as with David Diamond and Joseph Bloch in Musicology, Felix Galimir, Dorothy DeLay, Paul Doktor, and Samuel Sanders in Chamber music and Ensemble. Sophia earned her Bachelor and Master Degrees from the Juilliard School while holding a Fellowship teaching Piano Minor at Juilliard, and later joined the faculty of the Town House International Music School in New York City.

After graduating Juilliard, Sophia began working towards her Doctorate in Music Education at the Columbia University Teachers College, but deferred that pursuit to raise a family.

Sophia Agranovich is a first prize-winner of the Bergen Philharmonic Competition and has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborative pianist internationally as well as in the United States. Among her venues are Lincoln Center, Kaufmann Concert Hall, Steinway Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and Bargemusic, all in New York City, Salle Cortot in Paris, Rubin Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv, Brandeis-Bardin University in California, Watchung Arts Center in New Jersey, Kiev Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music and Lvov State Conservatory in Ukraine.

Ms. Agranovich is the Artistic Director of ‘Classicals in the Circle' music series at the Watchung Arts Center in New Jersey, Program Chair of Music Educators Association of New Jersey, Ms. Agranovich is a President and cofounder of PRIMA International Music Competition and Festivals, a lifetime member of Madison ‘Who's Who among Executives and Professionals', member of the Music Teachers National Association, National Association for Music Education, Leschetizky Association, College Music Society, and Private Teachers directory of the Juilliard School.

Teaching Principals and Philosophy

Sophia Agranovich has a reputation as a sought-after music educator and maintains a private studio in Springfield, NJ. She conducts master classes and lectures, coaches professional musicians and prepares students for conservatory and university auditions. Sophia's students have won awards in various competitions and festivals and have performed at esteemed venues.

Sophia Agranovich's music education heritage is one of the most impressive today and stems from the great tradition of Western European, Russian and American schools.

Ms. Agranovich uses individualized instruction methods, which combine traditional Russian school with various others, depending on the student's needs and abilities. She heavily concentrates on technique, which is a prerequisite for freedom in expressivity. She teaches overall musicianship along with music theory, music history, sight reading and improvisation. She stresses the connection of music and other art forms, such as literature, painting and sculpture. This helps to achieve true style and balance in performing. Ms. Agranovich guides her students to develop their individuality, independence, and interpretations in conjunction with understanding of particular period in history and in composers' lives when the music was written.

Sophia Agranovich is passionate, motivating, dedicated, patient, and helps students to appreciate and enjoy music in order to enrich their lives. She also incorporates into her teaching approach her studies and experience in psychology, kinesiology, music therapy, Yoga and meditation.

Sophia Agranovich's broad range of interdisciplinary studies has greatly enhanced both her performing and teaching, specifically by reducing physical strain and technique limitations, achieving refined states of concentration, focus and inspiration, integrating mind and emotions with music – after all – ‘music is a language of the soul'.