Tamara Rusanova
Tamara Rusanova, PhD, is an Honored Artist of Russian Federation, Professor of Piano Performance at the Gnessin Institute of Music in Moscow, winner of international music competitions, President of the Russian Schubert Society, Artistic Director of the Alemdar Karamanov Center for Contemporary Art, and an Honorary member of the Board, Schubert Society of the USA.
A graduate of the Gnesin Institute where she studied under Lina Bulatova, Professor Rusanova belongs to the renowned school of Elena Gnesina and Heinrich Neuhaus. Her repertoire centers on the works by Romantic composers. Tamara Rusanova began performing with solo concerts at the age of 15, being a student of a music school. For several years she was a soloist of the Bashkir Philharmonic. In her repertoire the central place is occupied by works of romantic composers, along with works of the classics and representatives of the baroque period. The three CDs recorded by Rusanova in 2000, 2006, and 2013 feature works by Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, and Scarlatti.
In addition to solo recitals, she conducts academic workshops and master classes on piano performance and pedagogy and participates in competition juries in Russia, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and the USA. Professor Rusanova is the author of Franz Schubert’s Last Piano Sonatas: Composition and Interpretation (2008) and numerous articles on the problems of musical style, performer interpretation, and piano pedagogy. Over the years she has taught over 130 students, among them 40 winners of international competitions, four PhDs in musicology, and a number of accomplished performers and teachers working both in Russia and around the world.
Prof. Rusanova is the main organizer and creative director of “Romanticism: Its Origins and Beyond,” an annual international forum comprised of a music competition and a scholarly conference and jointly sponsored by the Russian Gnesin Academy of Music, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the Russian Schubert Society and the Alemdar Karamanov Center for Contemporary Art.