Teaching Staff of the Preparatory Department

Tatiana Liakh

Position: Teacher
Education: The Cologne University of Music and Dance (Germany), class of Prof. V.Lobanov (2005); Belarusian State Academy of Music, class of Prof. V (2007), стажировка в Como Piano Foundation Martha Argerich (2007-2008)
Courses taught: Solo instrument


Tatiana Liakh was born on February 23, 1975 in Minsk, Belarus.

Tatiana Liakh had best piano teachers such as Lev Naumov, Irina Vinogradova, Boris Petrushansky, Igor Blagodatov, Eliso Virsaladze, Galina Eguiazarova in Minsk, Cologne, Moscow, Como, Munich, Madrid.

She won the 2nd Prize at the F. Liszt Competition in Minsk (Belarus, 1996), the 1st Prize at the F.Chopin Competition in Brest (France, 2000), the 4th Prize at the International Competition in Madrid (Spain, 2007), and the 3rd Prize at the International competition in Porto (Portugal).

Since 1994 she has worked as a piano accompanist in Manama, Bahrain, and as a teacher in Damascus, Syria. She gave solo concerts and participated in numerous international festivals in such Europeans cities as Barcelona and Madrid in Spain, Porto in Portugal, and Brest in France. He is a Yehudi Menuhin Foundation grant holder.

Later on, she gave concerts with the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra, the Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra, the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Saratov Philharmonic, the Rostov Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Yaroslavl Academic Governor’s Symphony Orchestra, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra, and the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra. She has toured with the Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra (Germany), the Nordhausen Theater Orchestra, the Philharmonic of Nations (Germany) and the Cologne Chamber Orchestra in Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, Belarus and Switzerland. She has collaborated with conductors like Fuat Mansurov, Oleg Lesun, Nikolai Kolyadko, Pyotr Vandilovsky, Gennady Provatorov, Lev Liakh, Alexander Skulsky, Eduard Serov.

She has performed in ensembles with Alexander Buzlov (cello), Aleksey Semenenko (violin), Daria Tchaikovskaya (piano), Alissa Margulis (violin), Artiom Shishkov (violin), Daniel Müller-Schot (cello), Eric Schumann (violin), Diemut Poppen (viola), Kirill Soldatov (trumpet), Esa Tapani (French horn), Anna Palimina (soprano).

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