Ksenia Knorre is a Russian pianist and professor of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. She was born on December 3, 1953, in Moscow.
She was born into an intellectually and artistically prominent family. Her mother, Vera Gornostayeva, was a professor at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Her father, Vadim Georgievich Sabinin-Knorre (1929–2014), was a physicist and poet, and her grandfather was the scholar Georgy Knorre.
In 1972 Knorre graduated from the Central Music School, where she studied in the class of A. S. Sumbatyan. In 1978 she graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Boris Zemlyansky, and in 1983 she completed her assistant internship under the supervision of Samvel Alumyan.
From 1979 to 1982 she worked as a concertmaster at the Moscow Conservatory. From 1981 to 2001 she taught a general piano class at the Moscow Conservatory; in 1995 she became an associate professor, and from 2007 she served as professor of the special piano department headed by Professor V. V. Gornostayeva.
In 2006 she was awarded the title Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Knorre was formerly married to violinist Gidon Kremer, with whom she had a daughter, Lika Kremer. She is married to the Lithuanian pianist Petras Geniušas; their son is the pianist Lukas Geniušas.
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