Piano Accompanist Mastery Department

Anna Tomashevich-korzhenevskaya

Position: Professor of the Piano Accompaniment Department
Academic title: Professor (2011)
Education: Belarusian State Conservatory (1973, piano class by B.Gart), probation assistantship under the guidance of M.A.Berger (1977)
Disciplines taught: Accompanist class


She was born on September 12, 1949 in Minsk (Belarus).
She is concert pianist, performed more than 400 concerts. She is the first performer of many works of popular Belarusian composers. Her concert repertoire consists of more than thousand works of native and world classical chamber-vocal and chamber-instrumental literature.

Over the year of work as an accompanist of the Belteleradiocompany (Republic of Belarus) she prepared and performed cycles of concert programs: “Anthology of Belarusian vocal music XVII-XX centuries” (10 programs), “All the romancies by P.Tchaikovsky” (5 programs), etc.; monographic programs: “S.Monyushko” “R.Shuman”, “I.Brahms” etc. She prepared stock recordings of the operas by I.Holland “Agatka or the Arrival of the Pan’ and A.Radziwill “Faust” with the radio groups of Belteleradiocampany of the Republic of Belarus  and soloists of the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Belarus. She has recorded more than a thousand works for the radio fund. She is researcher and promoter of Belarusian culture, one of the founders of International Music Festivals “Born of Belarusian Capella” (Minsk, 1991) and “God almighty” (Mogilev, 1993). She initiated bringing autobiographical materials of composer Y.Tarasevich from Poland back to Belarus.

 

She participated in festival “Moscow stars” (1987); “S.Monushko Festival” (1993, 1996); “Karol Szymanovski festival” (1997); was the artistic director and participant of Belarusian performers programs of International festival of chamber music “German-Belarusian Musical Meetings” in 1993-2003.
She toured in Belarus, the CIS countries, the USA, Canada, Germany, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic and the Baltic countries.

She is Laureate of the Special Prize of the President of the Republic of Belarus for cultural and artistic workers (2010). She was awarded Diplomas at the International Competition named after S.Monushko (Warsaw, 1999), the All-Union Competition named after M.Glinka (Minsk, 1981), the Inter-Republican Competition named after A.Kalnyn and Republican Competition named after L. Aleksndrovskaya (Minsk, 1990). Recipient of the Certificate of Honor of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus (2013).

Graduates of Professor Tomashevich-Korzhenevskaya teach and work as accompanists in Belarusian State Academy of Music, in all colleges and concert organizations of the Republic of Belarus. Four graduates work as accompanists of the National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet of the Republic of Belarus.

Among the student (over 70) there are laureates of international competitions, international and republican diplomants, senior teacher of the Academy, accompanists in foreign opera houses and concert organizations.
She has more than 5 publications, more than 12 teaching aids and programs.

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