Kira Alexandrovna Shashkina

Kira Alexandrovna Shashkina ( Russian Кира Александровна Шашкина , Kira Aleksandrovna Shashkina ) is a Russian pianist and educator. Her students included the medal winners of the Tchaikovsky competition Mikhail Pletnjow and Alexander Lubyantsev .

biography

Kira Schaschkina graduated from the Kazan Conservatory after studying with A. Leman and W. Apresow and received further training in the master classes of the Moscow Conservatory professors Heinrich Neuhaus and Jakow Milschtein . She has performed in solo concerts and with orchestra in concerts that were broadcast on radio and television.

In 1955 she began teaching at the Kazan Conservatory and associated schools. From 1992 to 2017 she taught at the Moscow Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory. Pianists who studied with her have won at least 80 prizes in competitions, including at least 51 first places.

students

In his childhood, the pianist, composer and conductor Mikhail Pletnjow , who won the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1978 and is the founder and chief conductor of the Russian National Orchestra , studied for six years with Shashkina at the School for the Gifted at the Kazan Conservatory. Other notable former students are Alexander Lubyantsev , Dong-Hyek Lim , Aleksei Tschernow and Filipp Kopatschewski .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} biography of KA Schaschkina on the website of the Central Music School Moscow ( Memento from September 28, 2018)
2. ↑ Biography of KA Shashkina on the website of Lotar-Shevchenko competition. Véronique Lautard Shevchenka Piano Competition , accessed June 11, 2019 (Russian).