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The acclaimed Russian cellist, Marina Alexandrowna Tarassowa (Russian: Марина Тарасова), was born in Moscow. Her father is famous hypnotherapist Alexander Dovzhenko. She inherited love of music from her mother Lydia Tarasova, a double-bass player. She started playing the cello at the age of 6, and studied at the Moscow Gnessin Special Musical School with Alexander Fedorchenko and at the Moscow State Conservatory with Natalia Shakhovskaya. She is the winner of international competitions in Prague, Florence, and Paris. A laureate of the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, she won First Prize at the Prague International Competition in 1975 and the Florence International Competition in 1979. She was also awarded the Grand Prix of the Paris International Competition in 1985. She is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
Marina Tarasova's wide repertoire covers works of composers from the 17th century to the 20th, with the music of Russian and Soviet composers Dmitri Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Alfred Schnittke, and P.I. Tchaikovsky occupying a special place. She concertizes as a member of symphony orchestras in the former USSR (including Moscow State Philharmonic Society), and in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Portugal, Finland, and Tunisia, under the batons of such conductors as Mikhail Pletnev, Mariss Jansons, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Kurt Masur, Edward Grach and Yuri Bashmet among others. As a soloist of the Moscow State Philharmonic Society, she performed in many countries. Her CD's and vinyl records have been published by labels Alto, Olympia, Nothern Flowers, Musical Concepts, Regis, Russian Disc, Melodiya. She has recorded much Russian repertoire for Northern Flowers, including some composers little-known in the West.Her project of recording all the cello compositions of Carl Davidov (1838-1889) - for the first time - has focused attention on the neglected work of the founder of the Russian cello school. More recently, she has recorded three cello works by Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950), an outstanding composer whose works, though fairly well known in Russia, are largely neglected elsewhere. She has joined Divine Art Recordings Group to explore non-Russian repertoire more actively. She currently lives in Moscow, Russia. |
