Sangidorjiin Sayantsetseg () is a Mongolian concert pianist and professor of music. She is the first Mongolian musician to perform as a solo artist at

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. She and her husband organized the biannual '' Ciudad de Huesca'' International Piano Competition in Spain, beginning in 1999. She is the president of the competition's jury. Sayantsetseg was born in

Ulaanbaatar Ulaanbaatar is the Capital (political), capital and List of cities in Mongolia, most populous city of Mongolia. It has a population of 1.6 million, and it is the coldest capital city in the world by average yearly temperature. The municipa ...

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. Her family was heavily involved in music and art; she began piano lessons at age five, studying with her father and mother. After graduating from Music College in Ulaanbaatar, Sayantsetseg continued her piano studies at Tchaikovsky Academic Music College. Later, she began study at Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in

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, where she studied the tradition of Russian pianism from Tatiana Galitskaya, Nina Emelyanova, and

Margarita Fyodorova Margarita Alekseevna Fyodorova - Маргарита Алексеевна Фёдорова (4 November 1927 - 14 August 2016) was a Soviet Russian pianist, People's Artist of Russia. She won silver in the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competi ...

. During post-graduate studies at Madrid's Royal Conservatory under Guillermo González, she began studying Spanish music. Sayantsetseg has also been a strong advocate for the work of Mongolian composers, including her father, Choigiviin Sangidorj, and her brother, Sangidorjiin Sansargereltekh.

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