Tatiana Vetrinskaya
School Director, Piano
Tatiana received her Master of Music in Piano Performance from Turkmenistan. She completed the Doctoral Program in Piano Ensemble Performance at the Gnesin Academy of Music in Moscow. After arriving in the United States, Tatiana acquired a second Master of Music in Piano Performance from the University of New Mexico. She came to the United States in 1995 as a first recipient of the John Donald Robb Musical Trust Fellowship. Tatiana has soloed with the St. Louis Kamergild Chamber Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Albuquerque, the University of New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, and the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque. She has performed extensively throughout the United States and has presented concerts and lecture-performances at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, the University of Texas at El Paso, the Steinway Society Concert Series in Princeton, New Jersey, the 2003 Society of American Music Conference in Tempe, Arizona, and the American Symphony Orchestra League’s 58th National Conference in San Francisco, California. Currently, she performs for the University of New Mexico’s Keller Hall Performance Series, and is a part-time piano faculty member at the University of New Mexico. Tatiana is the featured performer of two CD recordings: Pictures of New Mexico and Piano Concerto with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. She has released a CD featuring the music of Russian composers, Russia into a Modern World.
