Pianist Sivan Etedgee actively performs and teaches within the Greater Boston area. Interested in both the music of the past and of the present, Sivan plays a repertoire ranging from the Baroque to the music of today. In recent years he has extensively researched music written by composers who perished during the Holocaust and given well-received lecture-recitals on this topic. An advocate of new music, Sivan has commissioned and premiered works by local composers. With Soprano Emily May he gave the East and West Coast premieres of composer Nick Strimple’s cycle “Three Sexton Songs.” As a recitalist, Sivan has appeared as a soloist at The Wellesley Public Library, Phillips Exeter Academy, and numerous other venues throughout New England.    As a chamber musician, he has participated in the Apple Hill and Green Mountain Chamber Music Festivals, and gives frequent recitals with colleagues in the Boston area.    Sivan was a founding member of Somerville’s Serenata Chamber Musicians, and was the founder and director of Concerts at St. John’s, a concert series in Dedham, MA. He is currently the organist at St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church in West Roxbury, MA. A dedicated and enthusiastic educator, Sivan is on the faculty of the Newton Music Academy, teaches a private studio, and is a member of the New England Piano Teachers Association. Sivan earned his B.A. in Music at the University of New Hampshire, where he was the recipient of a full scholarship, his M.M. in piano performance at Boston University's College of Fine Arts, and has done post-graduate studies at the Hartt School of Music. His teachers have included Christopher Kies, Anthony di Bonaventura, Luiz de Moura Castro and Stephen Drury.