Ilze Graubiņa (

Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...

, 8 November 1941 – 24 January 2001) was a

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n pianist. She was trained at the

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under Abram Shatskes and Jakov Flier, to whom she subsequently served as an assistant. Graubiņa won the 1964 Johann Sebastian Bach Competition, and three years later she was appointed a teacher at the Jāzeps Vītols State Conservatory, where she has taught since; Armands Ābols, Andris Grigalis, Sandra Jalanecka, Karina Jermaka, Inese Klotina, Olga Pryadko and Victor Santapau and Manuel Angel Ramirez from Spain, have been trained under her. Her recording debut was a

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monophonic LP for

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References

Music in Latvia

Ilze Graubiņa site (www.ilzegraubin.com) 1941 births 2001 deaths Musicians from Riga Latvian classical pianists 20th-century classical musicians 20th-century classical pianists People's Artists of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic {{classical-pianist-stub