Oxana Yablonskaya is a Soviet, American, and Israeli pianist, musician, and music teacher, born on December 6, 1938, in Moscow. She studied at the Central Music School with Anaida Sumbatyan, and before entering the Moscow Conservatory she also worked with Alexander Goldenweiser. At the conservatory she continued her studies with Tatyana Nikolayeva.
From 1962 she taught at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1963 she won a prize at the Long-Thibaud Competition, and in 1969 she won a prize at the Beethoven Competition in Vienna.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Yablonskaya was a soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic and maintained an active concert career both in the Soviet Union and abroad. She made recordings for the Melodiya label and performed with the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra.
In 1977, after restrictions were placed on her concert activity, she emigrated to the United States. Her family moved to New York that year, and after arriving she gave a concert for critics at Carnegie Hall that launched her career in the West.
Yablonskaya later became a professor at the Juilliard School. In November 2014 she moved to Israel.
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