Born: 1912 (Detroit, MI)

Died: 2003 (North Carolina)

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Pianist Judith Sidorsky (Grenell) was a child prodigy who began her musical career in Detroit, MI. At age 12, she was awarded a Steinway Grand Piano as the winner of the Detroit Piano Contest. Sidorsky received a fellowship to attend the Juilliard Graduate School where she studied with Olga Samaroff Stokowski.

Sidorsky was named a Naumburg Award Winner in 1935. Orchestras she played with include: Detroit Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra as well as a concert in Carnegie Hall.

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Excerpt from The New York Times review, February 11, 1936

Judith Sidorsky, Pianist, in Debut

Winner of the Naumburg Fund Award Heard in Program Non-Conventional. Old Irish Airs Are Given

"She has an excellent techical equipment in the form of good wrists, resounding octaves, fleat fingers, a full tone..She has too, the enthusiasm of a young woman, who knows, as an interpreter what she wants to do, and why...Miss Sidorsky pleased her audience. The reality of her talent is manifest." Olin Downes

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