Students of Tomasz Herbut win prizes
Master's student Nikita Tonkonogov won second prize at the Siegfried Weishaupt Piano Competition in Germany, while Bachelor's student Daria Korotkova is the first winner of the Concerto Competition at the Tel-Hai International Piano Academy in Israel.
Born in Moscow in 1989, Tonkonogov studied at the Gnesin Institute of Music in the class of Natalia Suslova and with Mikhail Voskresensky at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. In 2009, he took part in Van Cliburn's master class in Moscow in honor of the cellist Mstislav L. Rostropovich.
In 2015, 21-year-old Daria Korotkova from St. Petersburg won the first prize in the Valiant Soloist Competition for young pianists at the Murten Classics Festival.
