Events

RUSSIAN SAMOVAR PRESENTS JULIA KOYFMAN  "DINNER & SHOW"

Tuesday, May 27th, 2025

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Straight from Seattle with love comes award-winning performer, writer, and comedian Julia Sonya Koyfman!

Enjoy a night of jazz, show tunes, and laughs as Ms. Koyfman takes you on a musical and comedic adventure. The glamour of Broadway meets the quirk of the Pacific Northwest - hear the songs you love from stage and screen, along with a few world premiere tunes!

Accompanied by award-winning pianist and composer Paul F. Stovall, this up-and-coming duo will leave you tapping your toes and cheering for more.

RUSSIAN SAMOVAR PRESENTS VICTOR NEUFELD "DINNER & SHOW"

 Monday,  June 2rd, 2025

7:30 PM -9:00 PM'

A night of live Sinatra music! Immerse yourself in an unforgettable evening of Frank Sinatra music, spanning from timeless classics to hidden gems.

RUSSIAN SAMOVAR PRESENTS KAY KOSTOPOULOS  "DINNER & SHOW"

Tuesday, June3rd, 2025

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Kay Kostopoulos is a fine performer who will leave you enchanted and informed.  New York is lucky to have her.”... Andrew Poretz, Theatre Pizzazz, NYC...Beautiful voice with a wide range... Ms. Kostopoulos is equally skilled on ballads and uptempo material...Makes a strong case for being considered a major jazz singer, Jazz Critic Scott Yanow…Palo Alto Weekly...With a sizzling snap of her fingers, Kay Kostopoulos turned up the heat--Kostopoulos brought exotic energy to Duke Ellington’s Caravan and Johnny Mercer’s Out of This World…Stanford Magazine

Thursdays every week

SHOWING OF MAMA VLADA 

Every Thursday for the Month of June 

7:30 PM

Join Vlada Von Shats, the spirited owner of a New York gay bar, as she shares her poignant path into human rights activism. Directed by Ellina Graypel, this 35-minute short documentary features original music and passionately addresses pressing issues like suicide prevention, AIDS hysteria, and homophobia, both within small cultural groups and globally. Through a vibrant and musically rich lens, *Mama Vlada* challenges our understanding of humanity, offering profound answers to the questions that define us.

RUSSIAN SAMOVAR PRESENTS CHIHIRO TAINAKA "DINNER & SHOW"

 Tuesday,  June 10th, 2025

6:30 PM -8:00 PM

Chihiro Tainaka is a classic jazz singer with influences such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and Carmen McRae and repertoire from The Great American Songbook. As a student, Chihiro played in rock bands in Japan. She then played in a blues band, and became interested in jazz in her 30s.

Chihiro first experienced authentic live jazz in New York City in 2011 before moving here permanently in 2013. Soon thereafter, she began performing jazz professionally, and continues to do so at clubs, jazz bars, restaurants and events. Chihiro has performed and collaborated with many currently active New York jazz musicians, directly absorbing the New York sound and continuing to grow.

RUSSIAN SAMOVAR PRESENTS NATASCHA BUSCHMANN "DINNER & SHOW"

 Monday,  June 16th,  2025

7:30 PM -9:00 PM

Born and raised in Manhattan, Natascha has loved Broadway and singing for as long as she can remember. While studying Musical Theatre at Northwestern University, she joined one of their premier a cappella groups, Purple Haze, where her passion for music grew to include contemporary, pop, and rock music. These days, Natascha is most often found singing at Don’t Tell Mama, or other piano bars across the city. Her love of community and blending tradition with contemporary style serves as the heartbeat of her journey, infusing her with vibrancy and creativity both on and off stage.

In case you needed an excuse, join us for National Martini Day June 19th!

RUSSIAN SAMOVAR PRESENTS VICTOR NEUFELD "DINNER & SHOW"

Tuesday June 24th, 2025

6:30 PM -8:00 PM

A night of live Sinatra music! Immerse yourself in an unforgettable evening of Frank Sinatra music, spanning from timeless classics to hidden gems.

Enjoy the magic of live performances and even have the chance to sit at the very table where Ol' Blue Eyes himself once sat!

RUSSIAN SAMOVAR PRESENTS MORIAH TRENK "DINNER & SHOW"

 Monday, June 30th, 2025

7:30 PM -9:00 PM

Moriah Trenk currently works as a full-time Company Pianist at Philadelphia Ballet. She has performed with BalletX, and has worked as a guest pianist at American Ballet Theatre and Boston Ballet. Previously, Moriah held a position at Boston Ballet School and as a staff pianist at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She was recently featured in a solo performance at The Villages, Florida, as a prizewinner of the Enchanted Evening concert series, where she performed for a packed audience of over 850 people. Pauline Pan, director of the Opera Club at the Villages said, “Moriah Trenk’s playing was out of this world. Her performance is indelibly etched in my memory. Bravo!” In a concert review by Tony Violanti of the Villages-news.com, Moriah was praised for her “fluid and graceful style” in performance of Chopin and Rachmaninoff.

Other recent engagements have included performances as a soloist and with ensembles at Bargemusic, Candlelight Concerts by Fever, Pregones Theater, Mallery Concert Series at Rutgers University, Jordan Hall, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Wagner College of Music in Staten Island, Loewe Theater, Merkin Concert Hall, and Hunter College, among other venues. Moriah has been a featured performer at events honoring Alan Gilbert and members of the NY Philharmonic. She has also performed in theater and cabaret productions, including West Side Story, Songs for a New World, and Artemisia LeFay’s ‘Ghosts of Weimar Past’. Moriah has performed outreach concerts with Boston's Volunteer Musicians for the Arts, and was accompanist for The Woman’s Chorus; a social initiative launched by Eureka Ensemble that enables women experiencing homelessness and poverty the opportunity to rehearse and perform in a chorus.

In recent summers, Moriah was selected as an Artist in Residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute. She has also been awarded full scholarships to study chamber music at The National Music Festival at Washington College, Manchester Music Festival's Young Artist Program in Manchester, Vermont and the Emerging Artists Fellowship Program at Garth Newel Music Center in Hot Springs, Virginia. Moriah is a prizewinner of various competitions;  including the Hudson Valley Music Club competition, the NYU Art of Solo and Collaborative Piano Award, the Yonkers Concerto Competition, the YWCA and Korean Daily News Piano Competition, the International Concert Alliance Piano Competition, and runner up in the Westfield Concerto Competition. She has been selected to perform in masterclasses with leading performers such as Vladimir Feltsman, Alexander Kobrin, and Carter Brey.

Moriah completed her Master's Degree in Collaborative Piano at New England Conservatory of Music, where she received a merit scholarship to study with Cameron Stowe and Jonathan Feldman. As a recipient of New England Conservatory's Community Performances and Partnerships Fellowship, Moriah performed interactive music programs throughout Boston. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from New York University where she was a student of Seymour Bernstein and Grant Wenaus. She previously studied with Paul Ostrovsky and Sara Davis Buechner.

RUSSIAN SAMOVAR PRESENTS NATASCHA BUSCHMANN "DINNER & SHOW"

 Tuesday, July 1st,  2025

6:30 PM -8:00 PM

Born and raised in Manhattan, Natascha has loved Broadway and singing for as long as she can remember. While studying Musical Theatre at Northwestern University, she joined one of their premier a cappella groups, Purple Haze, where her passion for music grew to include contemporary, pop, and rock music. These days, Natascha is most often found singing at Don’t Tell Mama, or other piano bars across the city. Her love of community and blending tradition with contemporary style serves as the heartbeat of her journey, infusing her with vibrancy and creativity both on and off stage.

RUSSIAN SAMOVAR PRESENTS IVAN DALIA "DINNER & SHOW"

Monday, July 14th, 2025

7:30 PM -9:00 PM

Ivan Dalia, Italian Pianist, Composer & Showman, creates memorable evenings of “Music, Stories & Smiles”. Blind from birth, Ivan’s love affair with music began as a curious youth, ultimately choosing the piano as his life partner. Ivan is currently based in New York City with a busy performance schedule featuring his South African Jazz Quartet and weekly Solo Piano appearances in classic city piano lounges.

RUSSIAN SAMOVAR PRESENTS TERI WADE "DINNER & SHOW"

 Monday, August 11th, 2025

7:30 PM -9:00 PM

Jazz vocalist Teri Leggio Wade performs regularly at venues throughout the greater New York area. Her vocals have garnered praise from reviewers at New York City Jazz Record, Something Else!, and Simply Jazz Talk (UK). She is the daughter of the late Carmen Leggio, a celebrated jazz saxophonist who played with numerous renowned jazz artists, including Gene Krupa, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson, Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, and many others. Teri developed a natural feel for jazz by listening to her father perform with iconic musicians of the era and as a leader of his own groups. She was also heavily influenced by listening to the music of jazz greats Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O’Day, Carmen McRae, and Peggy Lee, and has studied with several renowned jazz vocalists, including Jay Clayton and Carol Fredette. She is always delighted to return to the Russian Samovar with elegant renditions of her favorite jazz standards from the Great American Songbook, and she enjoys sharing anecdotes about their origins in classic Hollywood films and on Broadway.