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The Soviet/Russian violinist, Tatiana Tikhonovna Grindenko [Russian: Татьяна Тихоновна Гринденко], began studying music at the age of 6 at the Kharkov Secondary Specialized Music School at the Conservatory (class of A. Kozlovicher), then studied in Leningrad and Moscow. Her first public performance was at the age of 8, when she performed J.S. Bach's works with a symphony orchestra. She graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire and was student of renowned Professors Sergeyev (St Petersburg), Yuri Yankelevich and Glezarova (Moscow); and then became an assistant to Yuri Yankelevich. She is prize-winner at many international competitions, including the Tchaikovsky Competition (4th place, 1970) and Wieniawski International Violin Competition (1972).
Tatiana Grindenko's musical interests have never been confined to academic music. Since 1974, she has been a soloist at Mosconcert. In 1976, she jpined "Boomerang" = Бумеранг, one of the USSR's first rock groups, and subsequently the rock group Forpost. She has taken part in various avant-garde events and festivals. She served as a choirmaster in the church. In 1978-1988, she was banned from public performances and traveling abroad. Nevertheless, in 1980 (or 1982), she formed with Alexei Lubimov the USSR's first Baroque ensemble, the Academy of Early Music, using authentic 17th and 18th century performance techniques, ", which quickly gained fame and which she still employs to this day. In 1999, she created the chamber ensemble Opus Posth.
Since 1989, Tatiana Grindenko has been giving concerts widely in Russia and abroad. She has appeared with world-famous orchestras such as the Wiener Philharmoniker, Dresden Staatskapelle, Berliner Philharmoniker, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the Symphony Orchestras of Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Milan, Turin, Rome, Moscow and St Petersburg. On stage, Tatiana Grindenko has been partnered by such outstanding musicians as Kurt Masur, Kurt Sanderling, Kirill Kondrashin, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Yuri Temirkanov, Mstislav Rostropovich, Gidon Kremer, Frans Brüggen, Alexei Lubimov, Alexander Knyazev, Oleg Kagan and Andreas Staier. Renowned composers including Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Vladimir Martynov, Luigi Mono and Valentin Silvestrov have all composed, and continue to compose, works specially for Tatiana Grindenko.
Tatiana Grindenko's music has been recorded by international companies including Melodia, Eurodisk, Ondine, Deutsche Grammophon, Erdenklang Musikverlag & CCn'C Records, RCA, ECM, Wergo and Long Arms Records. Tatiana Grindenko has managed numerous theatre productions and performances. They include the operas // re pastore by Galuppi, W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (directed by Katya Pospelova), Martynov's Mozart and Safer/and Go and Stop Progress (directed by Anatoly Vasiliev and Yuri Lyubimov) and Fomin's Orpheus (directed by llya Applebaum).
Tatyana Grindenko is People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2002), and Recipient of the State Prize of Russia (2003) for outstanding achievements in music. She has brother, Anatoly Grindenko (born 1950), gamboist and choirmaster, head of the group "Old Russian Chant" (1983), whose main goal is to promote the ancient traditions of Russian church singing on the concert stage. Her husband is the composer Vladimir Martynov. She was married to the violinist Gidon Kremer. |
