Tigran Alikhanov

Tigran Alikhanov was a Soviet and Russian pianist, music educator, and public musical figure. He was born on January 22, 1943, in Moscow, and died there on October 29, 2023. He was a professor of the Moscow Conservatory from 1992 and served as its rector from 2005 to 2009. In 2002 he was named People's Artist of the Russian Federation.

He was born into the family of the physicist Abram Alikhanov and the violinist Slava Roshal, a soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic. From 1950 to 1961 he studied in the piano department of the Central Music School attached to the Moscow Conservatory, in the class of A. S. Sumbatyan. From 1961 to 1966 he studied at the piano faculty of the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Professor L. N. Oborin and also completed his internship there.

Alikhanov was head of the Department of Chamber Ensemble and Quartet at the Moscow Conservatory from 1992 until the end of his life. He was a soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic, gave solo concerts, and performed with various chamber ensembles and symphony orchestras. He toured in Austria, Algeria, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, the United States, Czechoslovakia, and South Africa.

He was also the author of scholarly works and teaching materials devoted to the creative legacy of his teacher Lev Oborin. Among his distinctions were a prize at the Marguerite Long and Jacques Thibaud International Competition in Paris in 1967, an award from the Hungarian Copyright Agency in 1985 for promoting works by Hungarian composers, the title Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1990, and the title People's Artist of Russia in 2002.

Alikhanov died in Moscow on October 29, 2023, and was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery.

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