Pianist Laryssa Krupa’s career extends beyond her accomplishments in performance as soloist and collaborative pianist to encompass numerous specialized facets of the musical world. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s of Music Degrees from the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Leon Fleisher and Fernando Laires, and later with Jascha Zayde in New York.
       Since her New York debut in 1983 at Carnegie Recital Hall (Weill Hall), concert engagements have taken her across the United States, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, and Ukraine. She has performed as a soloist with the Rome Festival Orchestra in Italy, the Lviv Philharmonic in Ukraine, and the New Sussex Symphony in New Jersey. 
      In 1985, Ms. Krupa founded and was music director of the Nova Chamber Ensemble, which has presented an annual concert series in the NY/NJ metropolitan area with many successful performances and recordings of works by Ukrainian composers and American premieres, and have been the featured performers in the Starlight on Stage series at the Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC) in Morristown.
      As a collaborative pianist, she has worked with many distinguished instrumentalists and singers, and frequently performed two-piano repertoire with her late husband, concert pianist Alexander Slobodyanik. Their performances included the Australian International Chamber Music Festival, PianoSummer at SUNY, New Paltz, the Music and Arts Center of Greene County, and Merkin Concert Hall in New York.
      In 1994, Ms. Krupa and Mr. Slobodyanik, led the movement to reopen the Community Theatre in Morristown, and co-founded the Morris International Festival of the Arts. They performed the New Jersey premiere of Alexander Tchaikovsky’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra with the Morris Festival Orchestra at the Theatre’s 10th Anniversary Gala Concert (2004), and were honored as founders during the 20th anniversary (2014).