Valentina Kameníková

Valentina Kameníková (born Valentina Michaljovna Wax ; born December 20, 1930 in Odessa ; † November 29, 1989 ) was a Ukrainian pianist and music teacher.

Kameníková had piano lessons from the age of two and attended the music school for gifted children in Odessa , founded by Pyotr Solomonowitsch Stoljarski . She won a children 's composition competition at the age of nine and appeared publicly as a soloist in Haydn's piano concerto in D major at the age of eleven . In 1941 she and her family were deported to Siberia because of their Jewish origins. In 1948 she returned to Odessa and continued her education at the Central Music School. In 1950 she finished her studies with a performance of Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto in E major.

From 1954 to 1957 she completed postgraduate studies at the Moscow Conservatory with Heinrich Neuhaus , the teacher of Svyatoslaw Richter and Emil Gilels . She married a Czech in 1954 and moved with him to Czechoslovakia in 1957. From 1959 to 1961 she completed postgraduate studies with František Rauch at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (AMU) . From 1963 she taught at the Prague Conservatory and from 1970 at the AMU.

Kameníková was best known as an interpreter of classical Russian piano literature. Her performances of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto and his Great Piano Sonata op. 37 were highly appreciated . She was awarded the Vienna Flute Clock for her recording of Mozart's piano sonatas . Between 1963 and 1988 she recorded more than fifty great piano works with Supraphon .

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