Anna Yevdokimova

Anna Yevdokimova, also known by her pen name Anna t'Haron, is a Russian pianist and visual artist born on August 6, 1978, in Chimkent, Kazakh SSR. She was born into a musical family descended from individuals who were repressed or exiled to Central Asia during the 1920s and 1930s. Her parents were Valery Petrovich Yevdokimov, a music history teacher, and Galina Nilivna Yevdokimova, a pianist. Following her mother's death in 1993, the family returned to Russia. Yevdokimova graduated with honors from the S.I. Taneev Musical College in Kaluga in 1997 under the tutelage of Elena Savina. She continued her studies at the Moscow Conservatory until 2002 with Professor Victor Merzhanov and assistant Yuri Didenko, later graduating cum laude from the Saratov State Conservatory in 2005 in the class of Professor Anatoly Skripay.

In 2005, Yevdokimova moved to the Netherlands to refine her performance skills, studying at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Professor Naum Grubert and at the ArtEZ Conservatorium Enschede with Professor Mikhail Markov. She was awarded a grant by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds in 2009 for her achievements in the arts. Her performing career peaked in the late 2000s, featuring solo and chamber performances across Europe.

Her participation in competitions and festivals includes the III All-Russian Competition of Chamber Ensembles in Novomoskovsk (1997), where she received a diploma, and the Almere International Chamber Music Competition (2007), where she was a finalist. In 2007, she undertook a concert tour of Mediterranean countries—including Croatia, Albania, Italy, Greece, and Libya—with violinist Ksenia Beltyukova. Other notable appearances include the IV Rachmaninov International Piano Competition in Moscow (2008), the Euregio Musikfestival in Osnabrück, the International Music Festival on Rhodes (2009), and the Val Tidone Summer Camp in Italy (2010).

Yevdokimova's extensive repertoire covers major academic styles, with a preference for composers such as J.S. and C.P.E. Bach, Couperin, Rameau, Mozart, Scriabin, Satie, Debussy, and Yuri Khanon. Her discography includes recordings of Rachmaninov's Preludes Op. 23 and Etudes-Tableaux Op. 33, J.S. Bach's Clavier Concertos (BWV 1052, 1053, 1055, 1056), and an album titled Golden Stones featuring the Goldberg Variations. She also recorded violin sonatas by Brahms (No. 3, Op. 108) and Elgar (Op. 82) with Beltyukova.

Since 2011, Yevdokimova has ceased public musical performances to focus on visual arts under the name Anna t'Haron. She specializes in graphic arts, photo restoration, and "multidimensional graphic arts," a style synthesizing geometric principles and technology. Between 2008 and 2010, she also worked as a web designer for InnovaTech, contributing to the development of "neuro-games" based on Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology. One such project, "Neuro-puzzle," was presented at the "Breakthrough-2009" forum and the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai.

As an illustrator and designer, she has collaborated extensively with author and composer Yuri Khanon. Her work appears in several of his publications, including Two Processes, Black Alleys, Nietzsche contra Khanon, and Alphonse Who Did Not Exist.

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