Oxana Yablonskaya is a Soviet, American, and Israeli pianist who has had an active international performance career since the early 1960s.
14 Facts About Oxana Yablonskaya
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Oxana Yablonskaya began her career in the USSR and, although winning several important competitions in the West, was denied permission by the Soviet government to accept any performance engagements outside of the Soviet bloc.
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Oxana Yablonskaya taught as a member of the piano faculty at the Juilliard School for more than 30 years, until 2009.
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Oxana Yablonskaya later emigrated to Israel, where she took up a position teaching at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.
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Oxana Yablonskaya then pursued further studies in her native city with Alexander Goldenweiser upon entering the Moscow Conservatory as well as Goldenweiser's Assistant Dmitry Bashkirov.
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Oxana Yablonskaya was a student of Tatiana Nikolayeva in her Doctorate program.
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Oxana Yablonskaya went on to win top prizes in the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition in 1963, Rio de Janeiro Piano Competition in 1965 and the Vienna Beethoven Competition in 1969.
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Oxana Yablonskaya was invited to perform with orchestras and in concert halls in the West during the 1960s and 1970s, but was never allowed to accept the engagements by the Soviet government.
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Oxana Yablonskaya performed throughout the USSR and made numerous recordings on the Melodiya label.
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Oxana Yablonskaya was named a "Soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic" and was highly active as a soloist with the Bolshoi Orchestra.
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The family came to New York City in 1977 and later that year Oxana Yablonskaya gave a critically acclaimed recital at Carnegie Hall.
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Oxana Yablonskaya is the Winner of the Grand Prix du Disque from the Liszt Society in Budapest for her recording of Schubert transcriptions by Liszt.
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Oxana Yablonskaya is an Honorary Academician of the International Academy of the Arts at the United Nations, International Academy of the Arts in San Francisco and Independent Academy of Liberal Arts at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Oxana Yablonskaya is Online Master Teacher at iClassical Academy with whom she has recorded several online Masterclasses.