Tatiana Shebanova

Tatiana Shebanova
Born (1953-01-12)January 12, 1953
Moscow, Russia
Died March 1, 2011(2011-03-01) (aged 58)
Warsaw, Poland
Occupation Pianist

Tatiana Shebanova (Russian: Татьяна Шебанова) was a Russian pianist, born on 12 January 1953 in Moscow, Russia. She died on March 1, 2011, in Warsaw.[1]

Early life

Shebanova finished the central music school of the Moscow Conservatoire where she studied with Tatiana Kestner. She graduated the Moscow Conservatoire with a gold medal in 1976 after studying under professor Victor Merzhanov. For the next decade she continued working with Victor Merzhanov as assistant lecturer.

Career

After taking a 2nd prize at the 1980 Warsaw International Chopin Competition Shebanova began an international performance career.

Shebanova performed in almost all European countries as well as in the Philippines, Taiwan, Canada,[2] South Africa and the USA. She also appeared more than 100 times in Japan. She performed regularly with her husband Jarosław Drzewiecki, and their son, Stanisław Drzewiecki.[3] She was the first performer of new compositions by Jevgeny Golubev, Yuri Aleksandrov and Boris Bloch.

Shebanova made about 50 recordings, in LP and CD mostly for former eastern block labels such as Melodiya and Polskie Nagrania Muza. She recorded Chopin,[4][5] Brahms, Rachmaninov, Feinberg, Debussy, Szymanowski and Zarzycki, for labels including RCA Victor, Melodia, Muza, CBS/Sony, EMI, Pony Canyon and Dux.

She lived for many years in Poland,[6] teaching at the Bydgoszcz Academy of Music and giving regular master classes.

Competitions

She also took part in the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1974.

References

[7] [8]

  1. ↑ (English) "Fryderyk Chopin - Information Centre - Tatiana Shebanova - biographie".
  2. ↑ The Vancouver Chopin Society Newsletter
  3. ↑ The Warsaw Voice - A Minor Maestro
  4. ↑ Classical CD Reviews: Tatiana Shebanova: Chopin's Complete Works for Solo Piano
  5. ↑ Chopin Vol 1 Shebanova DUX0741 [GD]: Classical Music Reviews - August 2010 MusicWeb-International
  6. ↑ Chopin: Complete Solo Piano Works (Tatiana Shebanova) | Classical music review from Classical-Music.com
  7. ↑ 2011 Seattle International Piano Competition Winners, Finalists, and Semi-finalists
  8. ↑ Fanfare Magazine Archive of CD Reviews: performers shebanovatatiana

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