Sangidorjiin Sayantsetseg ( mn, Сангидоржийн Саянцэцэг) is a Mongolian concert pianist and professor of music. She is the first Mongolian musician to perform as a solo artist at

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. She and her husband organized the biannual ''

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'' International Piano Competition in Spain, beginning in 1999. She is the president of the competition's jury. Sayantsetseg was born in

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. Her family was heavily involved in music and art; she began piano lessons at age five, studying with her father and mother. After graduating from Music College in Ulaanbaatar, Sayantsetseg continued her piano studies at Tchaikovsky Academic Music College. Later, she began study at Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in

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, where she studied the tradition of Russian pianism from

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, and

Margarita Fyodorova Margarita Alekseevna Fyodorova - Маргарита Алексеевна Фёдорова (4 November 1927 - 14 August 2016) was a Soviet Russian pianist, People's Artist of Russia. She won silver in the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competi ...

. During post-graduate studies at Madrid's Royal Conservatory under Guillermo González, she began studying Spanish music. Sayantsetseg has also been a strong advocate for the work of Mongolian composers, including her father, Choigiviin Sangidorj, and her brother,

Sangidorjiin Sansargereltekh Sangidorjiin Sansargereltekh ( mn, Сангидоржийн Сансаргэрэлтэх ; born 1969 in Ulaanbaatar) is a Mongolian composer. Sansargereltekh had piano lessons as a child from his father, Choigiv Sangidorj. He studied from 1977 to ...

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