DELANA THOMSEN is a highly accomplished solo and collaborative pianist who has given recitals throughout Europe and the US, including Alice Tully Hall and Weill Hall, as well as master classes in Iceland, Bulgaria, and Italy. Thomsen has been affiliated with Aspen, Juilliard and Mannes. She is on the piano faculties of Manhattan School of Music Precollege and Hoff-Barthelson Music School and has private teaching studios in NYC and Columbia County. Her teachers have been Ruth Slenczynska, Arthur Balsam, Dalmo Carra as well as 13 years of post-graduate studies with Elizabeth Moschetti Tobias, the assistant to Dorothy Taubman.