Viktoria Reiswich-Dapp is a pianist marked by an unusually wide range of accomplishments and a variety of traditions. She received her early training in the Soviet Union before being accepted at thirteen as a pre-student at the University of Music in Karlsruhe (Germany) where she studied with Sontraud Speidel (a student of Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Branka Musulin and Géza Anda). Reiswich-Dapp continued her studies with Irina Edelstein (a student of Jacob Milstein) and Joachim Volkmann (a student of Wilhelm Kempff) at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts from where she graduated with Diplomas (master’s equivalent) in piano performance and in piano pedagogy. She came to Canada as the first and only performer to be awarded the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship to study at the University of Alberta where she completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance.