Adelina Krivosheina, piano

Born in Siberia in the Stalin labor camps, Adelina Krivosheina was accepted into pre-conservatory school in Leningrad at the age of 7. There she studied with such distinguished musicians and teachers as Dimitri Shostakovich, Nadiya Golubovsky (Prokofiev's classmate and collaborator), Tanya Kravchenko, Michael Woskresensky and Josef Braudo. Ms. Krivosheina continued her studies at the Leningrad Conservatory where she was the top student in her class and received a Master's degree. She received her MMA from the Kiev Conservatory and her DMA from the Moscow Conservatory.

Upon Completion of her studies, Ms. Krivosheina was a piano professor at the Leningrad and Kiev Conservatories, visiting professor at the Moscow Conservatory and a principal instructor at the Kirov Theater in St. Petersburg. Adelina has performed as a guest artist with the Kiev Philharmonic and as the principal accompanist and music instructor at the National Ukrainian Theater of Opera and Ballet in Kiev. She is a multi-award winner including laureate of the National Piano Competition in Kiev in 1969, winner of the Piano Performers National Competition in Kiev in 1970 and laureate of the International Festival of Concert Performers in Moscow in 1985.

Ms. Krivosheina came to the United States in the summer of 1990 on an international tour as a solo performer and accompanist for the Kiev National Ukrainian Theater that included performances in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. She was the accompanist with Excelsior Opera for Kenneth Lane and Rene Garcia of New York City Opera and for Nikolai Shopsha and Nikolai Gnatuk of the Kiev Opera and Ballet Theater. Adelina was a featured performer in a January 1992 International Shostakovich Festival at the Troy Music Hall. Krivosheina was coached in the performance of Shostakovich's Preludes and his Preludes and Fugues by the composer himself, and she performed the world premier of his Concertino, Op. 94 in St. Petersburg. In 1998 she participated in a critically acclaimed tour of Europe, giving recitals in France, Belgium, Spain, and Germany.

Since her immigration to the U.S.A. in 1990, Adelina Krivosheina has continued to represent the style and soul of Russian music as a teacher and performer, contributing her unique and valuable knowledge, skills and abilities to American musical culture. She is has been a coach for the Grand Opera Company of Miami and is currently on the faculty at the University of Miami and the Florida International University.