Tatiana Zelikman

Tatiana Abramovna Zelikman is a Soviet and Russian pianist, professor, and educator, born on October 7, 1939, in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR. She is a product of the Gnessin musical institutions. For many years, she studied under the guidance of Professor Teodor Gutman, a student of the renowned pianist and teacher Heinrich Neuhaus.

Immediately after graduating from the Gnessin Institute, while simultaneously enrolling in postgraduate studies upon the recommendation of Elena Gnessina, she was invited to teach at the Gnessin Moscow Special School of Music. She has been a faculty member there for over 50 years. In recent years, she has combined her work at the school with teaching at the Special Piano Department of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music.

Throughout her extensive teaching career, Tatiana Zelikman has nurtured several generations of musicians. Many of her students have achieved worldwide recognition and have won first prizes at prestigious national and international competitions. Her notable students include Alexander Kobrin, Konstantin Lifschitz, Alexei Volodin, Ivan Rudin, and Mikhail Mordvinov. Among the younger generation of her pupils are Konstantin Shamray, Alexander Kudryavtsev, Daniil Trifonov, and Angel Wong.

In addition to her teaching activities, Tatiana Zelikman regularly conducts masterclasses both in Russia and abroad, including in countries such as Italy, France, Japan, and the Netherlands. She frequently serves as a jury member for various national and international piano competitions and participates in pedagogical seminars and conferences.

Her father was Abram Naumovich Zelikman (1911–1993), a Soviet chemist and metallurgist. Her husband is Vladimir Manuilovich Tropp (born 1939), a Soviet and Russian pianist, professor at the Moscow Conservatory, and head of the Special Piano Department at the Gnessin Academy. Her son, Vladimir Vladimirovich Tropp, is also a pianist, musicologist, and teacher, and serves as the Director of the Elena Gnessina Memorial Apartment Museum.

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