Women Concert Pianists Living Today

This section contains women who have (or have had) national or international careers as classical concert pianists.

#Those listed in the "International Who's Who in Music", 1996/97 Classical/Light Classical edition.
+Those listed in David Dubal's book "The Art of the Piano", second edition, 1995.

Ilse von Alpenheim#+ (b. Innsbruck, Austria, Feb. 11, 1927)
Eteri Andjaparidze (b. Tbilisi, Georgia)
Natalya Antonova
Martha Argerich #+ (b. Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 5, 1941)
Lydia Artymiw + (b. Philadelphia, PA, US, Sept. 9, 1954)
Myriam Avalos (b. Lima, Peru)
Jean Barr
Elena Bashkirova (b. Moscow)
Idil Biret #+ (b. Ankara, Turkey, Nov. 21, 1941)
Tessa Birnie# (b. New Zealand, July 19, 1934)
Jo Boatright
Evelyne Brancart (b. Belgium, 1954)
Angela Brownridge # (b. England, Oct. 14, 1944)
Angela Cheng
Jane Coop# (b. St. John, New Bruns., Canada, Ap. 18, 1950)
Imogene Cooper # (b. London, England, Aug. 28, 1949)
Evelyne Crochet (b. Paris, France, Nov. 9, 1937)
Bella Davidovich #+ (b. Baku, Azerbaijan, Jul.16, 1928)
Pavlina Dokovska
Brigitte Engerer # (b. Tunis, Algeria, Oct. 27,1952)
Virginia Eskin + (b. NY, Nov. 13, 1940)
Janina Fialkowska #+ (b. Canada, 1951)
Ingrid Fliter (b. 1973, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Margarita Fyodorova (b. 1928)
Vera Gornostayeva
Helene Grimaud (b. Aix-en-Provence, France, Nov. 7, 1969)
Ingrid Haebler# (b. Vienna, June 20, 1926)
Marian Hahn
Wu Han
Barbara Hesse-Bukowska + (b. Poland, June 1, 1930)
Angela Hewitt (b. Canada, July 26, 1958)
Helen Huang (b. Canada, July 26, 1958)
Veronica Jochum # (b. Berlin, Germany, 1930)
Genevieve Joy+ (b. France, Oct. 4, 1919)
Yoheved Kaplinsky (b. Tel Aviv, Israel)
Enid Katahn (b. Pittsburgh, PA, April 10, 1932)
Olga Kern (b. April 23, 1975, Russia)
Mari Kodama (b.Osaka, Japan)
Anne Koscielny (b. Tallahassee, May 12, 1936)
Elena Kuschnerova
Katia Labeque #+ (b. Hendaye, France, Mar. 3, 1950)
Marielle Labeque #+ (b. Hendaye, France, Mar. 6, 1952)
Alicia de Larrocha #+ (b. Barcelona, May 23, 1923)
Elisabeth Leonskaja (b. Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR, Nov. 23, 1945)
Cecile Licad (b. Manila, Phillippines, May 11, 1961)
Valentina Lisitsa
Barbara Lister-Sink (b. Lexington, NC, Jan. 18, 1947)
Yvonne Loriod #+ (b. France, Jan. 20, 1924)
Ellen Mack
Martina Maixnerova #(b. Prague, CZ, Sept. 20, 1947)
Roberte Mamou
Dora De Marinis (b. Mendoza, Argentina)
Anne-Marie McDermott
Zora Mihailovich (b. Belgrade, Yugoslavia)
Nina Milkina (b. Moscow, Jan. 27, 1919)
Barbara Moser (b. 1970)
Marilyn Neeley (b. Glendale, CA, 1941)
Barbara Nissman#+ (b. Philadelphia, Dec. 31, 1944)
Noriko Ogawa# (b. Kawasaki, Japan, Jan. 2, 1962)
Yoshiko Okada # (b. Japan, Oct. 5, 1961)
Ursula Oppens #+ (b. New York, Feb. 2, 1944)
Cristina Ortiz #+ (b. Bahia, Brazil, Ap. 17, 1950)
Polina Osetinskaya (b. Moscow, Dec. 11, 1975)
Cecile Ousset #+ (b. Tarbes, France, Jan. 23, 1936)
Natasha Paremski (b. Moscow, May, 1987)
Young-Choon Park (b. South Korea)
Rebecca Penneys (b. Los Angeles, Oct.2, 1947)
Navah Perlman
Maria-Joao Pires #+ (b. Lisbon, Portugal, Jul. 23, 1944)
Viktoria Postnikova #+ (b. Moscow, Jan. 12, 1944)
Anne Queffelec#+ (b. Paris, France, Jan. 17, 1948)
Marianna Rashkovetsky (b. Russia)
Livia Rev (b. Budapest, Hungary)
Clara Rodriguez (b. Venezuela)
Nancy Roldan (b. Russia)
Sarah Rothenberg (b. N.Y., July 14, 1958)
Ann Schein (b. New York, Nov. 10, 1939)
Katia Skanavi (b. Russia)
Ruth Slenczynska + (b. Calif., Jan. 15, 1925)
Regina Smedzianka #+ (b. Poland, Oct. 9, 1924)
Eleanor Sokoloff (b. Cleveland, Ohio, 1914)
Sontraud Speidel (b. Karlsruhe, Germany)
Susan Starr (b. Philadelphia, April 29, 1942)
Kathryn Stott # (b. England, Dec. 10, 1958)
Nina Svetlanova
Margaret Leng Tan (b. Singapore)
Etsko Tazaki (b. Tokyo, Japan, 1950's)
Penelope Thwaites (b. 1944)
Maria Tipo#+ (b.Italy, Dec. 23, 1931)
Dubravka Tomsic (b. Yugoslavia, 1940)
Nelita True (b. Bozeman, Montana)
Valerie Tryon (b. Portsmourth, Hants, Eng., 1934)
Mitsuko Uchida #+ (b. Japan, Dec. 20, 1948)
Ayako Uehara (b.Takamatsu, Japan, 1980)
Blanca Uribe (b. Bogota, Colombia, 1940)
Mihaela Ursuleasa (b. 1978, Brasov, Romania)
Natasa Veljkovic (b. April 2, 1968, Belgrade, Yugoslavia)
Ilana Vered+ (b. Israel, Dec. 6, 1939)
Frances Walker (b. Washington, D.C., March 6, 1924)
Diane Walsh (b. Wash. D.C., Aug. 16, 1950)
Elisso Wirssaladze
Klara Wurtz (b.Budapest, Hungary, 1965)
Oxana Yablonskaya + (b. Moscow, Russia, 1941)
Patricia Zander
Juana Zayas + (b. Cuba, 1940)
Guangren Zhou (b. Hanover, Germany, Dec. 17, 1928)
Lilya Zilberstein # (b. Moscow, Apr. 19, 1965)

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