Katia Skanavi
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Katia Skanavi (born in Moscow, 1971) is a Russian pianist. Granddaughter of the Russian film director Aleksandr Zarkhi.
Skanavi started a concert career after being awarded the XXII Long-Thibaud Competition's 3rd prize at 18. In 1994 she won Athens' Maria Callas Grand Prize. In 1995, she received an honorable mention at the XIII International Chopin Piano Competition.
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Categories:
- Russian classical pianists
- Russian women pianists
- 1971 births
- Living people
- Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition prize-winners
- Prize-winners of the International Chopin Piano Competition
- Russian people of Greek descent
- Russian people of Jewish descent
- Women classical pianists
- 21st-century women pianists
- Russian classical pianist stubs