Tatiana Melentieva grew up in Leningrad, where her father, Ivan Vassilievich Melentiev, was one of the leading soloists of the Maryinski Theatre. She graduated from Leningrad Conservatory and completed her post-graduate course there. It was also in Leningrad that she gave her first concerts and made her first recordings. Tatiana Melentieva has toured in the U.S.A., Japan, England, Germany, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and the Scandinavian countries. She has appeared with pianists - Grigori Sokolov, Alexei Lubimov, Oleg Malov, Sophia Vakman - and leading orchestras conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Mstislav Rostropovich, Saulius Sonsdeckis, Igor Blajkov, Alexander Lazarev and others. Alongside her activities as a performer, Tatiana Melentieva maintains a teaching at the St Petersburg Conservatory.

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