Tatyana Grindenko is a Soviet and Russian violinist, born in Kharkiv on March 29, 1946. She began studying music at age six at the Kharkiv Secondary Specialized Music School attached to the conservatory, where she studied with A. Kozlovicher. She later continued her studies in Leningrad and Moscow and graduated from the Moscow Conservatory named after Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. At age eight, she made her first public appearance, performing works by Bach with a symphony orchestra.
Grindenko won the first prize and gold medal at the World Competition of Young Performers in Sofia in 1968. She received fourth prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1970 and first prize at the International Wieniawski Violin Competition in 1972. From 1974, she was a soloist with Mosconcert. In 1976, she joined the rock group Boomerang and later the group Outpost. She also worked as a church choir director.
In 1982, Grindenko founded the Academy of Early Music ensemble, which soon became widely known. From 1989, she performed extensively in Russia and abroad. In 1999, she founded the chamber ensemble OPUS POSTH. Her repertoire includes Baroque music and works by contemporary Russian and international composers. She performed with major orchestras and collaborated with Kirill Kondrashin, Kurt Masur, Kurt Sanderling, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Frans Brüggen, Heinz Holliger, Mstislav Rostropovich, Valery Afanassiev, Yuri Bashmet, Gidon Kremer, Alexei Lyubimov and Andreas Staier. Works were dedicated to her by Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Luigi Nono, Valentin Silvestrov, Vyacheslav Artyomov, Alexander Bakshi, Vladimir Martynov, Ivan Sokolov and Pavel Karmanov. She has had a long-running collaboration with Martynov, and OPUS POSTH took part in recording the album Tayal by Leonid Fyodorov and Vladimir Volkov.
Grindenko was named Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1991 and People's Artist of the Russian Federation in 2002. She received the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 2002 jointly with Vladimir Martynov.
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