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Public records list Oxana Yablonskaya as a pianist, music educator and musician. Born on December 6, 1938, Oxana Yablonskaya is from Moscow, Moscow Governorate, Duchy of Moscow. The age as of 2026 is 87.
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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, Moscow Governorate, Duchy of Moscow
- Occupation
- pianist / music educator / musician
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Tiger
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Born December 6, 1938 (age 87).
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Oxana Yablonskaya is from Moscow, Moscow Governorate, Duchy of Moscow.
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Oxana Yablonskaya works as pianist, music educator, musician.
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