Background
She was born to a family of Jewish and Polish extraction living in Tbilisi, then the capital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
She was born to a family of Jewish and Polish extraction living in Tbilisi, then the capital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Moscow Conservatory.
At 7, she passed the entrance to one of Tbilisi"s sixty music schools. At 11, she gave her orchestral debut with Beethoven"s Concerto Number. 3, at 13 her first solo recital.
At 14, she began an intense four-year period of study at the secondary school with a new piano teacher from Kiev, influenced by the Russian school of piano.
The judges included the famous composer and conductor Aram Khachaturian and the eminent pianist Arthur Rubinstein. In 1964 she began studies in the Moscow Conservatory.
She left the Soviet Union in 1978 and has since then resided in Vienna. She recorded many years for Teldec, now for German label MDG and gives many Masterclasses.
Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (2005).