Lyubov Borisovna Timofeeva

Lyubov Borissowna Timofejewa ( Russian Любовь Борисовна Тимофеева ; born March 7, 1951 ) is a Russian pianist and university teacher .

Life

Timofejewna was a student of the Central Music School for Children at the Moscow Conservatory in Anna Artobolevskaya's class. As a remarkable pianist, she performed at the age of eight. At the age of 14 she was accepted into the Moscow Conservatory and studied with Jakow Sak and Heinrich Neuhaus . In 1968 she won third prize at the Concours musical international de Montréal . and in 1969 first prize at the International Marguerite-Long - Jacques-Thibaud Concours in Paris . After graduating in 1973, she continued studying with Jakow Sak as a senior assistant (until 1975).

Timofejewna then gave concerts in more than 40 countries, especially in the USA , France , Argentina and Germany . She has appeared with leading orchestras such as the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra , the Saxon State Orchestra Dresden , the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo , the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France and the Czech Philharmonic . She played under Kurt Sanderling , Herbert Blomstedt , Kirill Kondraschin , Evgeni Swetlanow and Mariss Jansons . Her favorite composers are Robert Schumann , Johann Sebastian Bach , Ludwig van Beethoven and Sergei Prokofjew . Her discography contains more than 40 recordings, including all the piano sonatas by Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and all the etudes by Frédéric Chopin .

Timofejewna worked as a soloist with the Russian State Concert Society Sodruschestvo and the Moscow State Academy Philharmonic . She teaches as a professor at Ferris University , a private college for women in Yokohama . Her autobiography was published in 2012 .

Honors

• 1st Prize of the Concertino Praga (1966)
• 3rd prize of the Concours musical international de Montréal (1968)
• 1st prize at the International Concours Marguerite-Long-Jacques-Thibaud (1969)
• Moscow Komsomol Prize (1972)
• People's Artist of Russia (1995)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Все пианисты. История фортепиано: ТИМОФЕЕВА Любовь Борисовна (р. 7. III 1951) (accessed July 7, 2017).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ирина Сапожникова: Родной дом - Московская Консерватория . Litres, 2017, ISBN 978-5-457-87559-3 .
3. ↑ Neues Gewandhaus Leipzig - concert schedule May 16–31, 1983 and event poster (accessed July 7, 2017).
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Центральная музыкальная школа: Тимофеева Любовь Борисовна  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 7, 2017).  
5. ↑ Тимофеева, Любовь Борисовна: Симфония моей жизни . Буки Веди, Moscow 2012, ISBN 978-5-4253-0288-5 .