Born in 1967 in Moscow, she began performing at age of 14. She studied composition at the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow, where she finished her postgraduate degree in 1997. She gaves ...

Tchaikovsky was anxious that his characters should be true to life, and entrusted the 1879 premiere to students of the Moscow Conservatory. Tchaikovsky's third Pushkin opera The Queen of Spades ...

Recognising that there was a talent which might not benefit from the pedagogical approach of the Conservatory (where he was himself a professor), Rimsky counselled Stravinsky to avoid it and to ...