LEWISTON – Nina Scolnik Jack, who grew up in Lewiston and attended Lewiston public schools, will perform in Prague, Czech Republic, from July 25 to Aug. 8. She is the daughter of retired Justice and Mrs. Louis Scolnik of 10 Mountain Ave.

American pianist Scolnik has performed in the United States and abroad as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra, chamber musician and accompanist. She collaborates with cellist Nathaniel Rosen, Tchaikovsky gold medalist, and has performed with German cellist Gerhard Mantel.

She has been guest artist with the American, Angeles and Lydian string quartets and has appeared in numerous festivals such as Aspen, New World, Amherst and the Williams International Piano Festival.

Recognized for her master classes, lectures and work with injured pianists, Scolnik has lectured and given master classes at music conferences, festivals and universities in the U.S., Canada and Austria. She served as a faculty member of the Taubman Institute of Piano, first at Amherst College, then at Williams College from 1979 to 2002.

She serves on the piano faculty of the University of California, Irvine, a position she has held since 1979. Scolnik is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory and the Juilliard School of Music. Her teachers have included Edna Golandsky, Dorothy Taubman, Artur Balsam, Joseph Schwartz and Martin Canin.

Her first piano teacher when she was a child in Lewiston was Natasha Chances, Bardwell Street, a member of the Bates College Music Department.