Oxana Yablonskaya

Oxana Yablonskaya commands my deepest respect. Born in Moscow in 1938, she won major Western competitions yet was forbidden by the Soviet state from accepting engagements outside the bloc, an almost unbearable cruelty for a performer at her peak. That she refused to abandon the piano, later rebuilding an international career across America and Israel while mentoring younger musicians, is a story of artistic stubbornness in the best sense. She bent neither to politics nor to circumstance. I find something genuinely moving in an artist who answered the silencing of a system with the simple, defiant insistence on continuing to play.

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Name (English)

Oxana Yablonskaya

Name (Japanese)

オクサナ・ヤブロンスカヤ

Reading

おくさな・やぶろんすかや

Born

December 6, 1938 (age 87)

Origin

Moscow, Soviet Union

Occupation

pianist / music educator / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Tiger

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxana%20Yablonskaya
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B5%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%83%96%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4535926

Tags

• pianist
• music educator
• musician

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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