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Ievgen Malikov

Founder and editor of Music Lineage, Pianist, Software Developer. Graduated from the Zaporizhzhia Music College in 2004 (class of Natalia Krupii) and from the Kharkiv Pedagogical Institute in 2010.

Worked as a piano teacher and accompanist at a music school. Prize winner and diploma recipient of city, regional, and international competitions. Has been working in the IT industry since 2012.

Articles

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Powdered Wigs, Leather Jackets
Powdered Wigs, Leather Jackets
February 4, 2026
In the popular imagination, the history of music is often compartmentalized into rigid genres, separated by high walls of time and style.
Whispered Secrets of the Studio
Whispered Secrets of the Studio
January 25, 2026
The history of Western classical music is often taught as a series of distinct, geological strata: the orderly gardens of the Classical era,...
The Myth of the Lone Virtuoso
The Myth of the Lone Virtuoso
January 10, 2026
There’s a familiar myth about great pianists: that they appear like comets—solitary, blazing, unrepeatable.
Touch, Timing, Taste
Touch, Timing, Taste
January 10, 2026
A great pianist can make a single note feel inevitable—so right it seems as if the composer placed it there by hand.
Bellini’s Mathematical Prison
Bellini’s Mathematical Prison
January 4, 2026
In 1819, a handsome, melancholy eighteen-year-old named Vincenzo Bellini stepped off a boat in Naples.
Wagner’s Ring Without Wagner
Wagner’s Ring Without Wagner
January 4, 2026
In the vast, chaotic constellation of music history, we are often taught to navigate by the brightest stars.

People

David Toradze
David Toradze
David Toradze was a Soviet Georgian composer, film composer, and music teacher. He was born on April 14, 1922, in Tiflis, now Tbilisi, Georg...
Vladimir Tarnopolsky
Vladimir Tarnopolsky
Vladimir Tarnopolsky is a Russian composer, born on April 30, 1955, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR. In 1973 he moved to Moscow and studied...
Wolfgang Rihm
Wolfgang Rihm
Wolfgang Rihm was a German composer and teacher. He was born on March 13, 1952, in Karlsruhe, West Germany, and died on July 27, 2024, in Et...
Sergei Musaelyan
Sergei Musaelyan
Sergei Musaelyan is a Russian pianist, teacher, artistic director of various music festivals, and president of music societies and foundatio...
Igor Bezrodny
Igor Bezrodny
Igor Bezrodny was a Soviet violinist, conductor, and teacher. He was born on May 7, 1930, in Tiflis, and died on September 30, 1997, in Hels...
Constantine Orbelian
Constantine Orbelian
Constantine Orbelian is an American conductor, pianist, and producer, born on August 27, 1956 in San Francisco, California. He comes from th...
Oxana Yablonskaya
Oxana Yablonskaya
Oxana Yablonskaya is a Soviet, American, and Israeli pianist, musician, and music teacher, born on December 6, 1938, in Moscow. She studied...
Marina Cheburkina
Marina Cheburkina
Marina Cheburkina is a Russian-French organist and musicologist, born in 1965 in Moscow. She graduated with distinction from the Tchaikovsky...

Connections

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Alexander Ossovsky ↔ Ksenia Derzhinskaya
Ksenia Derzhinskaya and Alexander Ossovsky were cousins. In 1911, at Ossovsky's request, Sergei Rachmaninoff listened to the young singer De...
Mathilde Mallinger → Ksenia Derzhinskaya
Mathilde Mallinger was one of the vocal teachers of Kseniya Derzhinskaya; from February to July 1914 Derzhinskaya improved her vocal art wit...
Lev Steinberg → Ksenia Derzhinskaya
In the summer of 1913, Ksenia Derzhinskaya prepared opera roles in Kyiv under the guidance of conductor Lev Steinberg.
Tatiana Zelikman → Alexei Volodin
Alexei Volodin continued his musical studies in Moscow under Tatyana Zelikman.
Alexander Sats → Boris Berezovsky
Boris Berezovsky took private lessons from Alexander Sats after his victory at the Tchaikovsky Competition; Sats helped him find his own sty...
Anastasia Virsaladze → David Toradze
Anastasia Virsaladze taught David Toradze piano at the Tbilisi Conservatory in 1937–1939.