Pianist Sasha Kasman Laude’s playing has been described by the Palm Beach Arts Paper as “powerful and vivid” and having “such an abundance of intelligence that it can only be described as relentless” (Ludwig van Toronto). Sasha is in demand as a guest artist and teacher at such festivals as IKIF, Vivace, IKOF, Southeastern, Utah State University Summer Piano Festival, Fry Street Chamber Music Festival, Busan International Music Academy (South Korea), and PianoCity Milano (Italy). She has given solo recitals at major venues including Steinway Hall in New York City, Yamaha Ginza Hall in Tokyo, Salle Cortot in Paris, and Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. Sasha has been a soloist with over a dozen symphony orchestras in the USA and abroad, including the Juilliard Orchestra, Calgary Symphony, and National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. She is an advocate and experienced performer of contemporary music, premiering works of Stewart Goodyear, Marc Migó, Nathan Daughtrey, Zachary Detrick, and Eric Mobley. An enthusiastic chamber musician, Sasha has collaborated with such esteemed players as Martin Beaver, Blake Pouliot, the Viano, Aeolus, and Fry Street String Quartets, and the New York Chamber Players. She and her father Yakov Kasman have been a touring piano duo for close to fifteen years.

Sasha was one of three finalists in the 2022 Honens International Piano Competition (broadcast worldwide) and has captured top prizes in numerous international competitions. In 2019, she became a Young Artist-in-Residence of NPR’s Performance Today hosted by Fred Child. Her recent engagements include performances for the Birmingham Chamber Music Society, Eisendrath Series of Ann Arbor, MI, InConcert Series of Apalachicola, FL, and as soloist appearances with the Dayton and Ann Arbor symphony orchestras and Luminous Voices Ensemble.

A native of Moscow, Sasha began musical studies with her parents, acclaimed pianists and pedagogues Yakov and Tatiana Kasman. She holds degrees from University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Juilliard School (studying with Yakov Kasman and Robert McDonald, respectively). In 2023, Sasha received a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan, where she was the studio assistant of Logan Skelton and received the School of Music, Theater, and Dance’s top graduation honor, the Earl V. Moore Award.

This past fall, Sasha joined the faculty of Utah State University’s Caine College of the Arts as Assistant Professor of Piano. She has previously guest taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Calgary, Lee University, Bowling Green State University, and Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. She is regularly invited to adjudicate competitions and give masterclasses for local and regional music teachers organizations. She is passionate about music outreach and has given over one hundred educational performances in schools and community venues in large part as a Fellow of PianoArts of Wisconsin. Sasha’s teaching emphasizes stylistic clarity rooted in academic study and values the expressive traditions of the Russian school, as well as a deep awareness of pianistic health based in the Taubman approach and Alexander technique.