Tamara Fidler was a Russian pianist and music teacher. She was born on November 17, 1916, in Saratov, and died on April 3, 2009, in Toronto.
She was the daughter of the pianist and music teacher Cecilia Fidler, a pupil of Alfred Reisenauer. Tamara Fidler began studying piano with her mother, then graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory in 1938 in the class of Leonid Nikolayev and completed postgraduate study there in 1941 under the same teacher.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, she was evacuated with the conservatory to Tashkent, where she worked as an assistant in the class of her mentor until his death in 1942. Later she worked on the faculty for military conductors, taught a general piano course, and then for many years taught in the chamber ensemble department of the Leningrad Conservatory.
Having given up a solo performing career, Fidler concentrated on the art of ensemble playing. For more than twenty years she performed in a duo with her husband, the cellist Beniamin Morozov, and with the Taneyev Quartet, of which he was a member. Among her other regular partners were the violinists Vladimir Ovcharek, Mikhail Vaiman, Viktor Liberman, and Mark Komissarov.
A reviewer in the newspaper Soviet Culture wrote in 1981 that her playing was marked by active inner energy, emphasized depth and strictness of interpretation, unwavering rhythmic precision, and at the same time the freedom of romantic timbral shifts. The reviewer also noted her high culture of tone production, so thoughtful that even the opening sounds of a performed piece could immediately immerse the listener in a world of poetic and inspired musical imagery.
From 1998 she lived in Canada. In 1987 she was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honour.
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