I attended the School of Music at the age of five and studied piano as my primary instrument. Afterwards I graduated in Russia from the Ust-Kamenogorsk Music College and the Ural State Conservatory with honors as a pianist and musicologist. I engaged in a full course of study that included solo piano performance,class in accompaniment, piano and chamber ensembles, music history, solfeggio, music theory, harmony and earned my Master's degree in music.
I started to work as a private piano instructor in the 1980s. At the same time as a pianist and accompanist I played numerous solo and chamber recitals with faculty students of music colleges and the Ural State conservatory. Since 1990 I have been teaching at the Tchaikovsky Music College. I taught piano, solfeggio, harmony, analyses of form, music literature, music theory and history, ethnomusicology to undergraduate students. Moreover, I prepared students, enrolling in the Tchaikovsky Music college, Ural and Moscow State conservatories and St. Petersburg Art Academy. For the 1990s and early 2000s I wrote and published numerous textbooks, supplements to courses, programs and etc, which were used by faculty and students. At the Tchaikovsky Music College I orchestrated workshops to music teachers of county schools with themes such as ’Elements of Classical Music Language’, ’Classical and Pop Cultures in Today’s Classroom’, ’History of National Contemporary Music’ and etc. As an accompanist I played numerous recitals with faculty students of Classical Music and Jazz departments. At the same time I attended a variety of National workshops and Conferences, studied with Dr. Basok, Dr. Shebalina and Dr. Mogenshtain at the Ural State Conservatory.
Now I work as an accompanist at the Lake Washington Singers and teach the piano and music theory at my home studio in Bothell, Washington. I love teaching students and believe that you, music and I can be friends.