Tara Hofmeister has performed in recital and as a chamber musician throughout Asia, Europe, and North America at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Toronto Center for the Arts, Forbidden City Concert Hall in China, Euphrasius’ Basilica in Croatia, and Istana Budaya in Malaysia. Besides being featured on television and radio, she has played at the Rachmaninoff Society, Amati Music Festival and Pianists for the New Millennium in New York, Amati Virtuoso Concert Series in New Jersey, Concerts by the Sea in California, Terra Magica Music Festival in Croatia, and International Piano Festival in Malaysia.
While living in Beijing, Tara was on the piano faculty of the Middle School Attached to the Central Conservatory of Music. Her full-scholarship students won scholarships to the Manhattan School of Music and Mannes College of Music in New York City, Boston University Tanglewood Institute in Massachusetts, International Keyboard Institute and Festival in Manhattan, and the Amati Music Festival in New York and New Jersey.
They have also won the President’s Award at Manhattan School of Music in New York, Grand and First Prizes in such competitions as the Russian Music Competition, the Russell E. Lanning Competition, the International Concert Festival Competition, and as a result have performed at such venues as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Bruno Walter Auditorium in New York City as well as toured France. Her students actively perform concertos with orchestras, recitals, and chamber music throughout Asia, Europe, and United States. She is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the International Music Institute of China™ (IMIC™).
Tara was awarded Best Author of the Year from Music Weekly after writing a series of articles on music education.
Tara Hofmeister earned her Master of Music Degree from the Manhattan School of Music and her Post-Graduate Diploma from the Institute for Advanced Musical Studies in Oxford, England. She studied with Rosalyn Tureck, Solomon Mikowsky, Marc Silverman, Miyoko Nakaya-Lotto, and Ruth Rendleman.
