Tatiana Kravchenko was a Soviet and Russian pianist and teacher, born in Astrakhan on 30 April 1916. Her mother was a pianist, and her stepfather was also a musician. The family later moved to Moscow, where her mother became director of a music school.
From 1930 to 1934, Kravchenko studied in the string department of the Music College named after the October Revolution. She then studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory from 1934 to 1939 with Lev Oborin, among his first students, and completed postgraduate study with him in 1945. From 1945 to 1950, she was a soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic.
Kravchenko taught at the Leningrad Conservatory from 1950 to 1967, earned the degree of Candidate of Art Studies in 1954, and became a professor in 1964. In the late 1950s, she taught at the Shanghai Conservatory. From 1967 to 1979, she taught at the Kyiv Conservatory and headed its piano department. She returned to Leningrad in 1980 and continued teaching at the conservatory there.
She performed widely in Russia and abroad, including in a duo with violinist Olga Parkhomenko. Her students won prizes at international competitions, including the Tchaikovsky, Chopin, and Enescu competitions. Kravchenko was named Merited Artist of the RSFSR in 1962 and People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1988. Her husband was cellist, musicologist, and teacher Lev Ginzburg. She died in 2003 and was buried near St Petersburg.