Tatiana Shebanova
| Tatiana Shebanova | |
|---|---|
| Born |
12 January 1953 Moscow, Russia |
| Died | 1 March 2011 (aged 58) Warsaw, Poland |
| Occupation | Pianist |
Tatiana Shebanova (Russian: Татьяна Шебанова) (12 January 1953 – 1 March 2011) was a Russian pianist .
Shebanova was born in Moscow, Russia. She finished the central music school of the Moscow Conservatoire where she studied with Tatiana Kestner. She graduated the Moscow Conservatoire with a gold medal in 1976 after studying under professor Victor Merzhanov. For the next decade she continued working with Victor Merzhanov as assistant lecturer.
After taking a 2nd prize at the 1980 Warsaw International Chopin Competition Shebanova began an international performance career.
Shebanova performed in almost all European countries as well as in the Philippines, Taiwan, Canada, South Africa and the USA. She also appeared more than 100 times in Japan. She performed regularly with her husband Jarosław Drzewiecki, and their son, Stanisław Drzewiecki. She was the first performer of new compositions by Jevgeny Golubev, Yuri Aleksandrov and Boris Bloch.
Shebanova made about 50 recordings, in LP and CD mostly for former eastern block labels such as Melodiya and Polskie Nagrania Muza. She recorded Chopin,Brahms, Rachmaninov, Feinberg, Debussy, Szymanowski and Zarzycki, for labels including RCA Victor, Melodia, Muza, CBS/Sony, EMI, Pony Canyon and Dux.
She lived for many years in Poland, teaching at the Bydgoszcz Academy of Music and giving regular master classes. She died in Warsaw in 2011, aged 58.
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