Evening of Music and Conversation with Tatiana Zelikman and Vladimir Tropp
Razumovsky Academy, 56 College Road, London NW10 5ET
Monday 19 October 2026, 7pm
Conversation with Tatiana Zelikman and Vladimir Tropp, surprise performance by Vladimir Tropp followed by young artist’s appearance: Deva Mira Sperandio will play Schumann “Kreisleriana”, Op.16 and Mischa Carr will play Medtner Sonata-Idyll, Op.56
Post-concert reception
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Tatiana Zelikman is considered to be one of the finest piano teachers today. Over the years she has taught pianists such as Daniil Trifonov, Konstantin Lifschitz, Alexei Volodin and Alexander Kobrin, all artists of rare talent who have become celebrities. Many of her students have enjoyed remarkable careers have obtained the most prestigious prizes, including the Tchaikovsky and the Rubinstein, Van Cliburn, Busoni and Chopin piano competitions, and today perform on the major stages of the world. Many have also followed in her footsteps and become highly regarded teachers. Her entire career, from the School to her higher studies in the class of Teodor Gutman, a disciple of the great Heinrich Neuhaus, has been characterised by a sound, a memory and an ear of rare quality, musical subtlety, and most important a distinctive personality that shines through in her art of interpretation. Her repertoire included works by François Couperin, Scriabin, Schumann, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin; she had an insatiable passion for the music of Ravel and Debussy.
Vladimir Tropp was born in Moscow and studied at the celebrated Gnessins Music School from an early age. His teachers were the distinguished Russian pedagogues, Moisey Feigin and Teodor Gutman, both pupils of Heinrich Neuhaus.
In 1963 Tropp graduated with distinction from the Gnessins State Musical Institute, now named the Gnessins Russian Academy of Music. He immediately began his graduate work while teaching there and is now regarded as of the Academy’s leading professors. In 1997 he became chair of the Academy’s piano department. He has also held a professorship at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. In his teaching Professor Tropp strives to maintain the highest traditions of the Russian piano school. In 1970, Tropp became a laureate of the International Enesco Piano Competition in Bucharest. Since then, he has regularly appeared in performance and gave maseterclasses in Russia and many countries all over the world. The principal part of his repertoire is romantic music, with acclaimed performances of Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Medtner. He serves on the boards of the Rachmaninoff (as a vice-president) and Scriabin Societies in Russia and is a member of the Teodor Leschetizki and Scriabin Societies in the US and the Glenn Gould Society in Canada. He regularly serves on juries of international and national piano competitions.
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