Lyudmila Vladimirovna Roshchina was a Russian pianist and professor, an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. She was active from 1955 to 2024 and was also a member of the expert council of the program “New Names” from 1997 to 2024.
She was born in Rostov-on-Don. Her years of study coincided with the period of the Great Patriotic War. In 1943 she worked as a nurse’s aide at Military Hospital No. 4466. In 1944–1945 she studied at the Rostov-on-Don Music College.
In 1946 she moved to Moscow and entered first a music-pedagogical college, and in 1947–1948 she studied at the music college attached to the Moscow Conservatory. In 1948 she entered the Moscow Conservatory, where she studied in the class of Samuil Feinberg, graduating with honors in 1953. She completed postgraduate studies in 1956.
In 1951 Roshchina became the winner of the third prize at the International Bedrich Smetana Piano Competition in Prague. She later received a number of distinctions, including the title Honored Artist of the Russian Federation in 1995, the medal “For Labor Valor” in 1966, the “Veteran of Labor” medal in 1986, and an honorary diploma of the USSR Ministry of Culture and the Central Committee of the Trade Union of Cultural Workers in 1968.
From 1955 she carried out active pedagogical work at the Moscow Conservatory. From 1982 she served as professor, and from 1992 she held the academic title of professor. For twenty years, from 1967 to 1987, alongside her work at the conservatory, she headed the piano department of the Central Music School attached to the Moscow Conservatory, addressing important methodological issues in children’s music education.
From 2001 to 2007 she was head of the special piano department. From 2007 to 2020 she worked in the special piano department under Professor Sergei Dorensky, and from 2020 to 2024 under Professor Alexander Pisarev.