Kira Alexandrovna Shashkina (Russian: Кира Александровна Шашкина, ''Kira Aleksandrovna Shashkina'') is a Russian pianist and pedagogue. Many of her pupils became significant pianists and competition prizewinners, including

Tchaikovsky Competition The International Tchaikovsky Competition is a classical music competition held every four years in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia, for pianists, violinists, and cellists between 16 and 32 years of age and singers between 19 and 32 years of ...

medalists

Mikhail Pletnev Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev (russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Плетнёв, ''Mikha'il Vas'ilevič Plet'nëv''; born 14 April 1957) is a Russian pianist, conductor and composer. Life and career Pletnev was born into a musical fa ...

and

Alexander Lubyantsev Alexander Mikhailovich Lubyantsev (Russian: Александр Михайлович Лубянцев, ''Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lubiantsev'', also transliterated ''Lubiantcev'', born 27 December 1986) is a Russian pianist and composer. He is a lau ...

Biography

Kira Shashkina graduated from the

Kazan Conservatory The N.G. Zhiganov Kazan State Conservatory (Russian: Казанская государственная консерватория имени Н.Г. Жиганова) is a higher musical education institution in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. The conse ...

, having studied under A. Leman and V. Apresov, and received further training in the master-classes of

Moscow Conservatory The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (russian: Московская государственная консерватория им. П. И. Чайковского, link=no) is a musical educational inst ...

professors

Heinrich Neuhaus Heinrich Gustav Neuhaus ( pl, Henryk (Harry) Neuhaus, russian: Ге́нрих Густа́вович Нейга́уз, Genrikh Gustavovič Nejgauz, 10 October 1964) was a Russian-born pianist and teacher of German and Polish extraction. Part of ...

and

Jacob Milstein Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jac ...

. She performed in solo recitals and with orchestra in concerts broadcast on radio and television. In 1955 she began teaching at the Kazan Conservatory and its associated schools. From 1992 through 2017 she taught at the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory. Pianists who have studied with her have taken prizes at competitions at least 80 times, of which at least 51 were first prizes.

Students

During his childhood, pianist, composer, and conductor

, who was the winner of the 1978

and who is the founder and chief conductor of the

Russian National Orchestra The Russian National Orchestra (russian: Российский национальный оркестр) was founded in Moscow in 1990 by pianist and conductor Mikhail Pletnev. It was the first Russian orchestra to perform at the Apostolic Palace, Va ...

, studied under Shashkina for six years at the Special Music School of the

. Other notable former pupils include

Dong-Hyek Lim Dong-Hyek Lim (born July 25, 1984 in Seoul) is a South Korean classical pianist. Lim has previously studied with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover and received the Samsung Culture Scholarship and the Ezoe Scholarshi ...

, Aleksei Chernov, and Philipp Kopachevskiy.

References

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