Anaida Stepanovna Sumbatyan

Anaida Stepanovna Sumbatjan ( Russian Анаи́да Степа́новна Сумбатя́н , English transliteration Anaida Stepanovna Sumbatyan , scientific transliteration Anaída Stepánovna Sumbatján , * 1905 ; † 1985 ) was an Armenian pianist and music pianist. At times she was the most sought-after piano teacher in the Soviet Union.

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Sumbatjan had completed a pianist training at the Petersburg Conservatory under Maria Kalantarova . Anaida Sumbatjan led the piano class at the Central Music School in Moscow for many years. She became the only teacher to produce two winners of the Tchaikovsky International Competition : Vladimir Ashkenazi and Vladimir Krainev . Other students of Anaida Sumbatjan were Nelly Akopian , Nina Kogan , Tigran Alikhanov , Oksana Yablonskaya , Constantine Orbelian , Igor Bezrodny , Sergey Musaelyan , Dmitry Feofanov , Maxim Mogilevsky and Philip Koltsov .

In 1954 Sumbatjan received the Medal of Honor for Extraordinary Willingness to Work and in 1966 the Award of Honored Teacher of the Russian Soviet Republic .

According to Oksana Yablonskaya, Sumbatjan was undoubtedly an outstanding figure and an excellent teacher. “She had an unsurpassed pedagogical talent. She did not allow the slightest familiarity, not the slightest simplification in piano playing. It had an impeccable taste. "

Individual evidence

↑ Marius Kociejowski: God's Zoo: Artists, Exiles, Londoners. 2014, accessed October 24, 2018 . Here Nelly Akopian describes how she came to Anaida Sumbatjan at the Central Moscow Music School.
↑ ^a ^b According to the corresponding article on the Russian-language Wikipedia.
↑ Rating based on the memoirs of the pianist Oxana Yablonskaya: Оксана Яблонская. Маленькие руки. Тема с вариациями. Quoted from the Russian Wikipedia.

personal data
SURNAME	Sumbatjan, Anaida Stepanovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Сумбатя́н, Анаи́да Степа́новна
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Armenian classical pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	1905
DATE OF DEATH	1985

[1] Marius Kociejowski: God's Zoo: Artists, Exiles, Londoners. 2014, accessed October 24, 2018 . Here Nelly Akopian describes how she came to Anaida Sumbatjan at the Central Moscow Music School.

[:0-2] According to the corresponding article on the Russian-language Wikipedia.

[3] Rating based on the memoirs of the pianist Oxana Yablonskaya: Оксана Яблонская. Маленькие руки. Тема с вариациями. Quoted from the Russian Wikipedia.