Anjelika Akbar

Anjelika Akbar
Akbar with her piano before the concert
Background information
Birth name	Angelika Akbar
Born	1969 (age 47–48) Karaganda, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Origin	Jewish
Genres	Classical
Occupation(s)	Musician, Composer, Concert pianist
Instruments	piano
Years active	1987-present
Website	Akbar's Official Site

Anjelika Akbar (born 1969 in Karaganda, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union) is a Turkishcomposer, pianist and writer.

She was born Anjelika Rosenbaum to a Jewish family. Her mother was a professional musician mother, and her father, Stanislav Konstantinovich Timchenko, was a philosopher who also directed an orchestra. Akbar could play the piano and read music before reaching the age of 3. Akbar began taking private piano lessons when she became 3 years old. Her first master was V. Lipovetsky, one of the founders of the Chinese Harbin Conservatory and a teacher at the Moscow Conservatory.

At the age of 4, she was discovered to possess the absolute pitch, and admitted to Uspkensky State Music School, a soviet school for child prodigies, drawing the interest of the Moscow State Conservatory musicians. She continued her education at the Tashkent division of the same school, where other child prodigies like Alexei Sultanov and Stanislav Ioudenitch studied as well.

She studied her 11-year-long piano and composition in the classes of Ass. Prof. V. Fadeyeva, Prof. A. Berlin and Prof. B. Zeydman of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory. Soon after Akbar entered Tashkent State Conservatory, where she studied composition, orchestration and piano for additional 5 years to complete her education.

Akbar completed her Master’s Degree in composition and orchestral conductor at Hacettepe State Conservatory, Turkey where she arrived in 1990 to write the music score of a film on world ecology that her husband had written. Akbar and her husband decided to stay permanently, and acquired Turkish citizenship. She received the “Degree for Proficiency in Art” in 1993 after submitting her thesis in the class of Ass. Prof. Turgay Erdener on the subject of Russian composer A. Skriabin’s “Analysis of Selected Piano Works in Harmonic, Melodic, Rhythmic, Formal and Philosophical Aspects” and composing “Symphony No.1” in Hacettepe State Conservatory. (“Proficiency in Art” is the equivalent of Doctorate for composers.)