Rimma Grigoryevna Skorokhodova, born in 1940, is a Russian pedagogue, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, and professor at the S. V. Rachmaninoff Rostov State Conservatory.
She was born in Nizhny Novgorod. Her parents were musicians. Her father, Grigory Lvovich, was a singer who worked as a soloist in an operetta theater and as a philharmonic artist. Her mother, Alisa Fyodorovna, was a leading teacher at a children's music school.
Skorokhodova studied at a music college with Anna Lazerson. She then entered the conservatory class of Professor B. S. Marants. She graduated from the Glinka Gorky State Conservatory with qualifications as a soloist, accompanist, and music college teacher.
In 1966 she entered postgraduate study at the Gnesin Musical-Pedagogical Institute, where she studied in the class of Professor Alexander Lvovich Iokhless. After completing postgraduate study in 1969, she moved to Rostov-on-Don together with her husband, I. S. Benditsky, and began working at the musical-pedagogical institute that now bears the name of the Rachmaninoff Rostov Conservatory.
On June 1, 1996, she became a professor at the S. V. Rachmaninoff Rostov State Conservatory. In 1997 she received the title Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
Her teaching career totals 59 years. She has taught advanced performance mastery, special instrument, and work on instructional material. Skorokhodova taught many musicians, some of whom later became laureates of Russian and international competitions, including A. Bulkina, who toured in the United States, M. Polovinko, M. Timofeev, A. Zenin, and N. Polovinko.
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