100 Notable alumni of
Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
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Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory is 111th in the world, 40th in Europe, and 3rd in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Years
- 1873-1943 (aged 70)
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1885-1892
- Occupations
- conductorpianistvirtuosomusicologistcomposer
- Biography
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Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music. Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and other Russian composers gave way to a thoroughly personal idiom notable for its song-like melodicism, expressiveness, dense contrapuntal textures, and rich orchestral colours. The piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninoff's compositional output and he used his skills as a performer to fully explore the expressive and technical possibilities of the instrument.
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Andrei Konchalovsky
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1957-1959
- Occupations
- memoiristfilm directordirectortheatrical directoropinion journalist
- Biography
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Andrei Sergeyevich Konchalovsky is a Russian film and theatre director, screenwriter, and producer. His filmmaking career spans over 60 years in Soviet, Hollywood, and contemporary Russian cinema. Early in his career, he was a screenwriting collaborator of Andrei Tarkovsky. His film credits include Uncle Vanya (1970), Siberiade (1979), House of Fools (2002), The Postman's White Nights (2014), Paradise (2016), and Dear Comrades! (2020). During the 1980's, he resided in the United States, where he directed films such as Maria's Lovers (1984), Runaway Train (1985), Shy People (1987), and Tango & Cash (1989). He also directed the 1997 miniseries adaptation of the ancient Greek narrative The Odyssey.
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Aram Khachaturian
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1929-1934
- Studied in 1934-1936
- Occupations
- university teachercellistpedagoguemusic educatorfilm score composer
- Biography
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Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a Soviet Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Soviet composers.
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Nikolay Baskov
- Occupations
- professorpresentercomposeractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Nikolay Victorovich Baskov is a Russian tenor who performs in both operatic and popular-music styles. His honors include commendations as Meritorious Artist and People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
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Aleksandra Pakhmutova
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1948-1953
- Occupations
- pianistfilm score composercomposer
- Biography
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Aleksandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova is a Soviet and Russian composer. She has remained one of the best-known figures in Soviet and later Russian popular music since she first achieved fame in her homeland in the 1960s. She was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR in 1984.
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Alexander Scriabin
- Occupations
- university teacherpianistcomposer
- Biography
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Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist. Before 1903, Scriabin was greatly influenced by the music of Frédéric Chopin and composed in a relatively tonal, late-Romantic idiom. Later, and independently of his influential contemporary Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed a much more dissonant musical language that had transcended usual tonality but was not atonal, which accorded with his personal brand of metaphysics. Scriabin found significant appeal in the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk as well as synesthesia, and associated colours with the various harmonic tones of his scale, while his colour-coded circle of fifths was also inspired by theosophy. He is often considered the main Russian symbolist composer and a major representative of the Russian Silver Age.
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Dmitry Malikov
- Occupations
- presenterrecord producermanufacturermusiciansongwriter
- Biography
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Dmitry Yurievich Malikov is a Russian singer, composer, occasional actor and a recent record producer.
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Mstislav Rostropovich
- Occupations
- conductorpianistcomposermusic educatorcellist
- Biography
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Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich was a Russian cellist and conductor. In addition to his interpretations and technique, he was well known for both inspiring and commissioning new works, which enlarged the cello repertoire more than any cellist before or since. He inspired and premiered over 100 pieces, forming long-standing friendships and artistic partnerships with composers including Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Henri Dutilleux, Witold Lutosławski, Olivier Messiaen, Luciano Berio, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke, Norbert Moret, Andreas Makris, Leonard Bernstein, Aram Khachaturian, and Benjamin Britten.
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Rodion Shchedrin
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1950-1955
- Occupations
- librettistfilm score composercomposeruniversity teacherpianist
- Biography
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Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin was a Soviet and Russian composer, pianist, and music teacher. He wrote in a wide range of genres, including operas such as Lolita and The Left-Hander, and ballets such as the Carmen Suite, created for his wife, the ballerina Maya Plisetskaya of the Bolshoi Theatre. His orchestral works includes five concertos for orchestra and six piano concertos, in which he often appeared as soloist. He also composed vocal works such as The Sealed Angel, as well as chamber music and film scores, including Anna Karenina. His works have been widely performed and commissioned internationally, particularly in the United States and Western Europe. Shchedrin is regarded as one of the leading composers of the late Soviet period and an important figure in Russian contemporary music in the decades that followed.
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Alfred Schnittke
- Occupations
- music educatorfilm score composercomposeruniversity teacherpianist
- Biography
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Alfred Garrievich Schnittke was a Soviet and Russian composer. Among the most performed and recorded composers of late 20th-century classical music, he is described by musicologist Ivan Moody as a "composer who was concerned in his music to depict the moral and spiritual struggles of contemporary man in [...] depth and detail."
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Sviatoslav Richter
- Occupations
- pianistpaintercomposer
- Biography
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Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter was a Soviet and Russian classical pianist. He is regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time, and has been praised for the "depth of his interpretations, his virtuoso technique, and his vast repertoire".
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Kyōhei Sorita
- Occupations
- conductorpianistbusinesspersonrepresentative director
- Biography
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Kyōhei Sorita is a Japanese classical pianist and conductor. In 2021, he won second prize, ex aequo, at the XVIII International Chopin Piano Competition, the highest prize for a Japanese-born pianist in the competition since Mitsuko Uchida's second prize in 1970.
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Denis Matsuev
- Occupations
- public figurepianist
- Biography
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Denis Leonidovich Matsuev is a Russian pianist. Primarily a classical pianist, he also performs jazz occasionally.
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Vladimir Shainsky
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1945
- Occupations
- composerpianistactorsongwriterpublic figure
- Biography
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Vladimir Yakovlevich Shainsky was a Soviet and Russian composer. He was a recipient of the People's Artist of the RSFSR (1986).
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Lola Astanova
- Occupations
- pianistrecord producercomposer
- Biography
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Ludmilla Astanova, known professionally as Lola Astanova, is an Uzbek-born American pianist.
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Vladimir Ashkenazy
- Occupations
- composerpianistconductorclassical pianist
- Biography
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Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy is a Soviet-born Icelandic pianist, chamber music performer, and conductor. Ashkenazy has collaborated with well-known orchestras and soloists. In addition, he has recorded a large repertoire of classical and romantic works. His recordings have earned him seven Grammy Awards and he has been awarded three stages of Iceland's Order of the Falcon for his overall contribution to music.
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Eduard Artemyev
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1960
- Occupations
- composerfilm score composer
- Biography
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Eduard Nikolayevich Artemyev was a Soviet and Russian composer of electronic music and film scores. Outside of Russia, he is mostly known for his soundtracks for films such as At Home Among Strangers, Solaris, Siberiade, Mirror, Stalker, and Burnt by the Sun. He was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia in 1999.
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Maksim Dunayevsky
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1970
- Occupations
- film score composerconductorcomposerpianistpresenter
- Biography
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Maksim Isaakovich Dunayevsky is a Soviet and Russian composer. People's Artist of Russia (2006). He is the artistic director and chairman of the artistic council of the Moscow Regional Philharmonic since 2015.
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Galina Vishnevskaya
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1966
- Occupations
- theatrical directoropera directordiaristactorbiographer
- Biography
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Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya was a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966. She was the wife of cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and mother to their two daughters, Olga and Elena Rostropovich.
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David Oistrakh
- Occupations
- conductoruniversity teacherviolistmusic educatorviolinist
- Biography
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David Fyodorovich Oistrakh was a Soviet Russian violinist, violist, and conductor. He was also Professor at the Moscow Conservatory, People's Artist of the USSR (1953), and Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1960).
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Alexander Alexandrov
- Occupations
- military personnelchoir directorcomposermusic educatorconductor
- Biography
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Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, was a Soviet and Russian composer and founder of the Alexandrov Ensemble, who wrote the music for the State Anthem of the Soviet Union, which in 2000 became the National Anthem of the Russian Federation (with new lyrics). During his career, he also worked as a professor of the Moscow Conservatory, and became a Doctor of Arts. His work was recognized by the awards of the title of People's Artist of the USSR and two Stalin Prizes.
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Ivo Pogorelić
- Occupations
- pianistacademic musician
- Biography
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Ivo Pogorelić is a Croatian pianist. He is known for his sometimes unorthodox interpretations, which have brought him a sizable following and both praise and criticism from musical experts. A musician of wide repertoire, his recordings include works by a variety of composers from the early 18th through 20th centuries.
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Hibla Gerzmava
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1994
- Occupations
- opera singersinger
- Biography
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Hibla Levarsovna Gerzmava is an Abkhazian-Russian operatic soprano who currently resides in Moscow.
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Sofia Gubaidulina
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1954-1963
- Occupations
- film score composercomposerclassical pianist
- Biography
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Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina was a Soviet and Russian composer of modernist sacred music. She was highly prolific, producing numerous chamber, orchestral and choral works. Her output has been described as exploring the tensions between Western and Eastern music, and has been characterised by "innovative use of microtonality and chromaticism, rhythm over form and use of contrasting tonalities.
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Vladimir Spivakov
- Occupations
- violinistmusic educatorconductor
- Biography
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Vladimir Teodorovich Spivakov is a Soviet and Russian conductor and violinist best known for his work with the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra.
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Alexey Rybnikov
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1962-1967
- Occupations
- composerfilm score composer
- Biography
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Alexey Lvovich Rybnikov is a modern Russian composer.
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Lyubov Kazarnovskaya
- Occupations
- opera singeractor
- Biography
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Lyubov Yurievna Kazarnovskaya is a Russian operatic soprano who has sung leading roles in opera houses around the world. She has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Philips, and Naxos Records, amongst others. She has her own music show on Russian television and a weekly one-hour radio program, "Vocalissimo", on Radio Orphej.
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Gidon Kremer
- Occupations
- conductorviolinistactormusician
- Biography
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Gidon Markusovich Kremer is a Latvian classical violinist, artistic director, and founder of Kremerata Baltica.
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Reinhold Glière
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- 1894-1900 studied music theory, violin performance, and music composing
- Occupations
- pianistuniversity teachercomposerconductormusicologist
- Biography
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Reinhold Moritzevich Glière was a Russian and Soviet composer of German and Polish descent. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of RSFSR (1935) and People's Artist of USSR (1938).
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Emil Gilels
- Occupations
- music educatorpianist
- Biography
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Emil Grigoryevich Gilels was a Russian and Soviet pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time. His sister Elizabeth, three years his junior, was a violinist. His daughter Elena became a pianist.
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Mischa Maisky
- Occupations
- cellist
- Biography
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Mischa Maisky is a Soviet-born Israeli cellist.
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Arno Babajanian
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1948
- Occupations
- composerpianistmusic educatorfilm score composer
- Biography
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Arno Harutyuni Babajanian was a Soviet and Armenian composer and pianist. He was made a People's Artist of the USSR in 1971.
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Yury Bashmet
- Occupations
- conductorviolistpublic figuremusic educatorviolinist
- Biography
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Yuri Abramovich Bashmet is a Russian conductor, violinist, and violist.
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Mikhail Pletnev
- Occupations
- pianistconductorcomposer
- Biography
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Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev is a Russian pianist, conductor and composer.
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Yevgeny Krylatov
- Occupations
- composerpianistfilm score composermusician
- Biography
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Yevgeny Pavlovich Krylatov was a Soviet and Russian composer who wrote songs for over 120 Soviet and Russian movies and animated films.
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Dang Thai Son
- Occupations
- piano teacherpianistcomposer
- Biography
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Đặng Thái Sơn is a Vietnamese and Canadian classical pianist. In 1980, he won the X International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, becoming the first pianist from Asia to do so. He has received particular acclaim for the sonority and poetry in his interpretations of Chopin and the French repertoire.
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Gara Garayev
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1938-1946
- Occupations
- music educatorfilm score composercomposeruniversity teacherpianist
- Biography
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Gara Abulfaz oghlu Garayev was a prominent Soviet Azerbaijani composer. Garayev wrote nearly 110 musical pieces, including ballets, operas, symphonic and chamber pieces, solos for piano, cantatas, songs, and marches, and rose to prominence not only in the Azerbaijan SSR, but also in the rest of the Soviet Union and worldwide.
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Antonina Miliukova
- Years
- 1848-1917 (aged 69)
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Antonina Ivanovna Miliukova was the wife of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky from 1877 until his death in 1893. After marriage she was known as Antonina Tchaikovskaya.
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Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev
- Occupations
- pianistmusic theoristuniversity teachercomposerwriter
- Biography
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Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.
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Radu Lupu
- Occupations
- pianistmusician
- Biography
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Radu Lupu CBE was a Romanian pianist. He was widely recognized as one of the greatest pianists of his time.
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Nikolai Medtner
- Occupations
- university teacherpianistcomposer
- Biography
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Nikolai Karlovich Medtner was a Russian composer and pianist. After a period of comparative obscurity in the 25 years immediately after his death, he is now becoming recognized as one of the most significant Russian composers for the piano.
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Maxim Shostakovich
- Occupations
- pianistconductor
- Biography
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Maxim Dmitriyevich Shostakovich is a Russian and American conductor and pianist. He is the second child of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich and Nina Varzar. His older sister is Galina Shostakovich. He is an Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
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Alexander Malofeev
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Alexander Dmitrievitch Malofeev is a Russian pianist. Described by Der Standard as "a world piano revolution" and hailed by Il Giornale for embodying "the piano mastery of the new millennium," he has established himself as one of the most captivating pianists of his generation.
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Myroslav Skoryk
- Occupations
- musicologistmusic educatorcomposer
- Biography
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Myroslav Mykhailovych Skoryk was a Ukrainian composer and teacher. His music is contemporary in style and contains stylistic traits from Ukrainian folk music traditions.
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Nikolai Lugansky
- Occupations
- music educatorpianist
- Biography
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Nikolai Lvovich Lugansky is a Russian pianist. He regularly performs with leading orchestras and conductors and records for labels including Warner Classics and Harmonia Mundi.
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Gennady Rozhdestvensky
- Occupations
- composerpianistconductormusic educator
- Biography
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Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky, CBE was a Soviet and Russian conductor, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.
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Heinrich Neuhaus
- Occupations
- pianistmusicologistmusic educatoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Heinrich Gustav Neuhaus was a Russian and Soviet pianist and teacher. Part of a musical dynasty, he was of German descent. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1922 to 1964. Neuhaus was also awarded the People's Artist of the RSFSR (1956).
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Tikhon Khrennikov
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1936
- Occupations
- composeruniversity teacherpianistmusic criticpolitician
- Biography
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Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, and General Secretary of the Union of Soviet Composers (1948–1991), who was also known for his political activities. He wrote three symphonies, four piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, operas, operettas, ballets, chamber music, incidental music and film music.
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Sergei Lemeshev
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1921-1925
- Occupations
- opera singerdirectortheatrical directorwritermusic educator
- Biography
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Sergei Yakovlevich Lemeshev was a Soviet and Russian opera singer and director. People's Artist of the USSR (1950).
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Boris Berezovsky
- Occupations
- music educatorpianist
- Biography
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Boris Vadimovich Berezovsky is a Russian pianist.
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Andrei Eshpai
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1953
- Occupations
- composerpianistmusic educatorfilm score composer
- Biography
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Andrei Yakovlevich Eshpai was a Soviet composer. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1981.
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Leonid Kogan
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Leonid Borisovich Kogan was a preeminent Soviet violinist during the 20th century. Many consider him to be among the greatest violinists of the 20th century. In particular, he is considered to have been one of the greatest representatives of the Soviet School of violin playing.
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Zakaria Paliashvili
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1900-1903
- Occupations
- music educatorcomposer
- Biography
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Zacharia Petres dze Paliashvili, also known by his Russian name Zachary Petrovich Paliashvili (Russian: Захарий Петрович Палиашвили; 3 August 1871 – 6 October 1933), was a Georgian composer. Regarded as one of the founders of Georgian classical music, his work is known for its eclectic fusion of folk songs and stories with 19th-century Romantic classical themes. He was the founder of the Georgian Philharmonic Society and later, the head of the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. The Georgian National Opera and Ballet Theater of Tbilisi was named in his honor in 1937. Notably, Paliashvili's music serves as the basis of the National Anthem of Georgia.
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Samvel Yervinyan
- Occupations
- violinistcomposer
- Biography
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Samvel Yervinyan is an Armenian violinist and composer.
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Vladimir Martynov
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1970
- Occupations
- musicologistmusic educatorcomposer
- Biography
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Vladimir Ivanovich Martynov is a Russian composer, known for his compositions in the concerto, orchestral music, chamber music, and choral music genres.
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Tatiana Nikolayeva
- Occupations
- university teacherpianistmusicologistcomposermusic educator
- Biography
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Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva was a Soviet and Russian pianist, composer, and teacher.
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Elisabeth Leonskaja
- Occupations
- music educatorpianist
- Biography
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Elisabeth Leonskaja is an Austrian pianist. Born and trained in Tbilisi, she won the Enesco Competition in Bucharest in 1964 which made an international career possible. She then studied at the Moscow Conservatory where she met Sviatoslav Richter who performed with her and became a close friend. She has lived in Vienna since 1978. Besides the great piano concertos, she has focused on the late sonatas by Beethoven and Schubert.
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Irina Gribulina
- Occupations
- singerpoetwritercomposersongwriter
- Biography
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Irina Yevgenevna Gribulina is a Russian pop singer, composer, poet. She was the winner of the Television Festival Pesnya goda' 87.
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Nicolai Ghiaurov
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Nicolai Ghiaurov was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous basses of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated with roles of Mussorgsky and Verdi. Ghiaurov married the Bulgarian pianist Zlatina Mishakova in 1956 and Italian soprano Mirella Freni in 1978, and the two singers frequently performed together. They lived in Modena until Ghiaurov's death in 2004 of a heart attack.
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Irina Arkhipova
- Occupations
- opera singermusic educatoropinion journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Irina Konstantinovna Arkhipova was a Soviet and Russian mezzo-soprano, and later contralto, opera singer. She sang leading roles first in Russia at the Sverdlovsk Opera and the Bolshoi Theatre, and then throughout Europe and in the United States. People's Artist of the USSR (1966) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1984).
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Eduard Khanok
- Occupations
- composersongwriter
- Biography
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Eduard Semyonovich Khanok is a Soviet and Belarusian musician and composer. Honored Worker of Culture of the Byelorussian SSR (1982). People's Artist of Belarus (1996).
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Dmitri Kogan
- Occupations
- violinistmusician
- Biography
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Dmitri Pavlovich Kogan was a Russian violinist and an Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation.
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Yevgeny Svetlanov
- Occupations
- composerpianistconductoropinion journalist
- Biography
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Yevgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov was a Soviet and Russian conductor, composer, and pianist.
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Vladimir Fedoseyev
- Occupations
- music educatorbayanistconductor
- Biography
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Vladimir Ivanovich Fedoseyev is a Soviet and Russian conductor, accordionist, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1980). Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1989) and the Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR (1970). Full Commander of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland". Artistic director and chief conductor of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra since 1974.
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Edison Denisov
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- 1951-1956 studied composed musical work
- Occupations
- university teacherfilm score composermathematicianmusicologistcomposer
- Biography
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Edison Vasilievich Denisov was a Russian composer in the so-called "Underground", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division of Soviet music.
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Alexander Siloti
- Occupations
- conductorpianistprofessorcomposermusic educator
- Biography
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Alexander Ilyich Siloti was a Russian virtuoso pianist, conductor, and composer.
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Igor Oistrakh
- Occupations
- conductorviolinistmusic educatoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Igor Davidovich Oistrakh was a Soviet and Russian violinist. He was described by Encyclopædia Britannica as "noted for his lean, modernist interpretations".
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Gregor Piatigorsky
- Occupations
- composercellistmusic educatormusician
- Biography
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Gregor Piatigorsky was a Russian-born American cellist.
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Alexander Gretchaninov
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1890
- Occupations
- composerpianistconductormusic educator
- Biography
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Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov was a Russian Romantic composer.
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Zakhar Bron
- Occupations
- violinistmusic educatoruniversity teachermusician
- Biography
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Zakhar Nukhimovich Bron is a Russian violinist and renowned pedagogue. He has been living in Western Europe since 1989.
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Vladimir Krainev
- Occupations
- film directorpianistmusic educatoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Vladimir Krainev was a Russian pianist and professor of piano, People's Artist of the USSR.
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Eliso Virsaladze
- Occupations
- pianistmusic educatormusician
- Biography
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Eliso Virsaladze is a Georgian pianist.
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Tofig Guliyev
- Occupations
- composerpianistconductorfilm score composer
- Biography
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Tofig Alakbar oglu Guliyev was a Soviet and Azerbaijani composer, pianist, and conductor.
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Leonid Kharitonov
- Occupations
- conductormilitary personnelopera singersinger
- Biography
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Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov was a Soviet and Russian bass-baritone (баритональный бас) singer. He was honored with People's Artist of the RSFSR and Honored Artist of RSFSR. In the West he was noted for his 1965 video of The Song of the Volga Boatmen.
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Oscar Feltsman
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Oscar Borisovich Feltsman was a Ukrainian-born composer.
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Kaj Chydenius
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1981-1982
- Occupations
- singercomposerpolitician
- Biography
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Kaj Oskar Chydenius was a Finnish musician and composer, probably best known for his left-wing political songs interpreted by various artists.
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Sergei Lyapunov
- Occupations
- composerpianistmusic educatoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor.
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Kirill Kondrashin
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin was a Soviet and Russian conductor. People's Artist of the USSR (1972).
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Alexander Goldenweiser
- Occupations
- pianistlawyeruniversity teachermusic criticcomposer
- Biography
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Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser 10 March [O.S. 26 February] 1875 – 26 November 1961) was a Russian and Soviet pianist, teacher and composer.
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Youri Egorov
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Youri Aleksandrovich Egorov was a Soviet and Dutch classical pianist.
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Veljo Tormis
- Occupations
- music educatorfilm score composercomposerfolkloristuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Veljo Tormis was an Estonian composer, regarded as one of the great contemporary choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia. Internationally, his fame arises chiefly from his extensive body of choral music, which exceeds 500 individual choral songs, most of it a cappella. The great majority of these pieces are based on traditional ancient Estonian folksongs (regilaulud), either textually, melodically, or merely stylistically.
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Lazar Berman
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Lazar Naumovich Berman was a Soviet Russian classical pianist, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1988). He was hailed for a huge, thunderous technique that made him a thrilling interpreter of Liszt and Rachmaninoff and a late representative of the grand school of Russian Romantic pianism. Emil Gilels described him as a "phenomenon of the musical world."
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Andrei Gavrilov
- Occupations
- pianistconductor
- Biography
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Andrei Gavrilov is a Russian-Swiss pianist.
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Dmitry Shishkin
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Dmitry Igorevich Shishkin, born on 12 February 1992, is a Russian classical pianist. He is best known for winning the 2nd prize at the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019.
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Lev Oborin
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- composerpianistmusic educatoruniversity teacher
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Lev Nikolayevich Oborin; (Moscow, 11 September [O.S. 29 August] 1907 – Moscow, 5 January 1974) was a Soviet and Russian pianist, composer and pedagogue. He was the winner of the first International Chopin Piano Competition in 1927.
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Iosif Kotek
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- composer
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Iosif Iosifovich Kotek, also seen as Josef or Yosif, was a Russian violinist and composer remembered for his association with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He assisted Tchaikovsky with technical difficulties in the writing of the solo part in his Violin Concerto in D.
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Bella Davidovich
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- composerpianistmusic educatoruniversity teacher
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Bella Mikhaylovna Davidovich is a Soviet and American pianist.
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Rudolf Barshai
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- violistconductor
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Rudolf Borisovich Barshai was a Soviet and Russian conductor and violist.
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Tamara Milashkina
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- animatormusicianopera singer
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Tamara Andreyevna Milashkina was a Russian lyric and dramatic soprano. A member of the Bolshoi Theatre from 1958 to 1989, she also appeared at La Scala in Milan, throughout Europe and at the Metropolitan Opera. She focused on roles by Tchaikovsky such as Lisa in Pique Dame and Tatyana in Eugene Onegin. She was the first Soviet soprano to be trained at the studio of La Scala in Milan, and her Italian repertoire included Verdi's Leonora in Il trovatore, Elisabetta in Don Carlo and Aida, and Puccini's Tosca.
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Alexander Goedicke
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- university teacherpianistcomposermusic educatororganist
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Alexander Fyodorovich Goedicke was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist.
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Olga Kern
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- pianist
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Olga Vladimirovna Kern is a Russian and American classical pianist. She became a US citizen in 2016.
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Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov
- Enrolled in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
- Studied in 1929
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- musicianfilm score composercomposerchoir directorsongwriter
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Boris Aleksandrovich Aleksandrov was a Soviet and Russian composer and, from 1946 to 1986, the second head of the Alexandrov Ensemble which was founded by his father, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov. Aleksandrov reached the rank of Major-General and was awarded the order of Hero of Socialist Labour, the Lenin and Stalin Prize, and named People's Artist of the USSR.
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Vissarion Shebalin
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- composerconductorprofessormusic educator
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Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin was a Soviet composer and music pedagogue. He was Rector of the Moscow Conservatory (1942-1948) and People's Artist of the RSFSR (1947).
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Emin Sabitoglu
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- composer
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Emin Sabitoglu was a Soviet Azerbaijani composer, author of a lot of well-known Azerbaijani songs and music for films. People's Artist of Azerbaijan.
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Vadym Kholodenko
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- classical pianist
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Vadym Tymurovych Kholodenko is a Ukrainian pianist who won the gold medal at the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
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Yevgeny Brusilovsky
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- music educatorcomposer
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Yevgeny Grigoryevich Brusilovsky was a Soviet and Russian composer who settled in Kazakhstan. He wrote the first Kazakh opera, co-wrote the music for the anthem of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, and was a People's Artist of the Kazakh SSR.
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Antonina Nezhdanova
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- university teachermusic educatoropera singer
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Antonina Vasilyevna Nezhdanova was a Russian and Soviet lyric coloratura soprano.
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Natalia Gutman
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- university teachermusic educatorcellist
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Natalia Grigoryevna Gutman, PAU, is a Russian cellist. She began to study cello at the Moscow Music School with R. Sapozhnikov. She was later admitted to the Moscow Conservatory. She later studied with Mstislav Rostropovich.
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Sulkhan Tsintsadze
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- music educatorcomposer
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Sulkhan Tevdores dze Tsintsadze was a Georgian composer known for his chamber music and his film scores.
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Valeri Kikta
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- music educatorfilm score composercomposer
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Valeri Grigoryevich Kikta is a Russian classical composer, a professor of the Moscow Conservatory.
