Professional Online
Piano Teacher
Professional Online Piano Teacher
Tatyana Henk was born in Russia and raised in a family of musicians. She started her piano studies at 6 years old in a well-rounded traditional music school with a standard curriculum of classes in ear-training, theory, history of music, choir, and 45-minute piano lessons twice a week. Primary Music School is the foundation of Russian musical culture, with its deep roots in the finest traditions of performance, passed down by generations of great teachers.
Conservatory Lineage
After completing seven years of Primary Music School and earning a four-year degree in the Piano Performance program at the Volgograd College of Arts, Tatyana Henk was accepted into the prestigious five-year piano Performance program at Saint Petersburg Conservatory. The Conservatory was founded in 1862 by renowned pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein and named after N. Rimsky-Korsakov, who taught composition and orchestration at the Conservatory for forty years. Among conservatory notable faculty and alumni are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Jascha Heifetz, Valery Gergiev and Anna Netrebko. At the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Tatyana Henk was privileged to study Piano Performance in the studio of Professor Nathan Perelman, who was a student of two famous teachers: Leonid Nikolayev (among his students are Vladimir Sofronitzky, Maria Yudina and Dmitri Shostakovich), and Heinrich Neuhaus (among his students are two of the greatest pianists of the 20th century: Maestro Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels). The Conservatory’s rigorous program included Piano Performance, Chamber Music Ensemble, Accompaniment, History of Music, Theory, Harmony, Ear Training, and Pedagogy.
Experience
Besides being a professional online piano teacher, Tatyana Henk’s working experience in the United States includes teaching classical piano at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music, for Elizabethtown College, and for the Community School of Music and Arts at the University of Redlands, where she worked in the School of Music as a staff accompanist. Her teaching method is based on a well-rounded traditional Russian curriculum that keeps producing world famous pianists such as Vladimir Horowitz, Evgeny Kissin and Daniil Trifonov.
Merce, dilette amiche by Giuseppe Verdi. Presidential Honor Recital, University of Redlands. Paula Cervalos, soprano; Tatyana Henk, piano
Ernani, Ernani involami by Giuseppe Verdi. Presidential Honor Recital, University of Redlands. Paula Cervalos, soprano; Tatyana Henk, piano
Les Cyclopes, by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Tatyana Henk, piano
Piano Sonata No.7 in B-flat Major, Op. 83, I – Allegro Inquieto, by Sergei Prokofiev. Tatyana Henk, piano
Tatyana Henk
When she is not teaching, Tatyana still practices daily. She also enjoys composing songs, training at the gym and spending time with her family – including two Pomeranian pups that often sit in on lessons and attend recitals. Contact Tatyana.
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