Tamara Georgieva Yankova was a Bulgarian pianist and pedagogue, born on 5 April 1907 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and died on 15 October 1983 in Sofia, Bulgaria. She was awarded the title of People's Artist of the People's Republic of Bulgaria.
She came from a musical family. Yankova was the granddaughter of the folk singer Elena Yankova, the daughter of the collector of folk songs Georgi Yankov, and the sister of the pianist Elena Yankova-Koltonovska. She received her initial musical education within the family.
In 1961 she graduated from the State Music Academy, where she studied piano with Heinrich Wiesner and Andrey Stoyanov. She later refined her training in Vienna with Julius Isserlis.
From 1925 she toured in Bulgaria and abroad; in the USSR she performed in 1962. From 1932 she taught at the Bulgarian Conservatory, where she became a professor in 1944 and head of department in 1958. Among her students was Konstantin Ganev.
Yankova was the first performer in Bulgaria of works by Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Medtner, Prokofiev, and other Russian composers. She was also the author of methodological works on piano art, including "Keyboard Art" (Sofia, 1959) and "The Principles of Stanislavski Reflected in the Art of Musical Performance" (Sofia, 1962). She became a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party in 1961. Her honors included the Dimitrov Prize in 1952, the title Honored Artist of the People's Republic of Bulgaria in 1965, and People's Artist of the People's Republic of Bulgaria in 1979.
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