Lev Nikolayevich Oborin was a Soviet and Russian pianist, composer and pedagogue. He was the winner of the first International Chopin Piano Competition in 1927.
Alexei Sultanov was a Soviet and American classical pianist of Uzbek origin.
Bolesław Kon was a Polish concert pianist who won international acclaim in his brief career.
Barbara Stella Hesse-Bukowska was a Polish pianist. Her family had a long-standing musical history, as her father was a violinist and conductor, her mother was a pianist and teacher, and her grandfather was a piano tuner. Her mother was her first teacher. Her subsequent teachers included Czesław Aniołkiewicz and, at the Warsaw Conservatory, Maria Glińska-Wąsowska.
Katia Skanavi is a Russian pianist. Granddaughter of the Russian film director Aleksandr Zarkhi.
Abram Mykhailovych Lufer was a Soviet and Ukrainian pianist.
Yevgeny Malinin, PAU, was a Soviet and Russian pianist.
Naum Lvovich Shtarkman was a Soviet and Russian classical pianist.
Irina Zaritskaya was a Ukrainian pianist.
Rosa Vladimirovna Tamarkina was a Soviet pianist who won second prize in the III International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (1937).
Sergei Leonidovich Dorensky was a Russian pianist.
Dina Yoffe is a pianist, pedagogue and winner of many musical competitions.
Zinaida Ignatyeva was a Russian pianist.
Philippe Giusiano is a French classical pianist.
Rem Urasin is a Russian pianist.
Lidia Grychtołówna is a Polish pianist.
Đặng Thái Sơn is a Vietnamese-Canadian classical pianist. In 1980, he won the X International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, becoming the first pianist from Asia to do so. He has received particular acclaim for the sonority and poetry in his interpretations of Chopin and the French repertoire.
Anna Malikova is a Russian pianist.
Dmitry Igorevich Shishkin, born on 12 February 1992, is a Russian classical pianist. He is best known for winning the 2nd prize at the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019.
Elena Guseva is a Russian operatic soprano who has performed at major opera houses in Europe. Besides standard repertoire such as Verdi's Aida and Puccini's Mimi, she has focused on roles by Russian composers, such as Tchaikovsky's Lisa and Prokofiev's Polina, a role she performed when Der Spieler was first performed at the Vienna State Opera.
