Sulamita Aronovsky (5 May 192915 December 2022, ) was a Lithuanian-born British classical pianist and piano teacher who spent her formative years in Moscow and Soviet-occupied Lithuania, moving to London in 1971. Aronovsky was born in

Kaunas Kaunas (; ) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest List of cities in the Baltic states by population, city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaun ...

, Lithuania on 5 May 1929. Her teachers included Lev Barenboim, , Grigory Ginsburg and Alexander Goldenweiser. An experienced Juror of International Competitions, she founded the London International Piano Competition in 1991. In 1971, after visiting family in the USA, she decided to defect to Britain, where she settled in Manchester, teaching at the

Royal Northern College of Music The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) is a conservatoire located in Manchester, England. It is one of four conservatoires associated with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. In addition to being a centre of music education ...

. In the 1990s, Aronovsky moved to London, where she served as Professor of Piano at the

Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is one of the oldest music schools in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the firs ...

. Aronovsky's students included , David Fanning, , , Melani Mestre, Michael Bell, John Thwaites, Pamela Chowhan, Ian Flint, Amir Katz, Andrew Wilde, , Stefan Ćirić, Junko Urayama, Nils Franke, Howard Evans, Gareth Jones, Nicolas Hodges, Beate Perrey, Jonathan Powell,

Nicholas Angelich Nicholas Michael Angelich (December 14, 1970 – April 18, 2022) was an American pianist. He was noted for performing internationally with ensembles from Europe and North America. Early life Angelich was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 14 ...

, Raul Jimenez,

Toby Purser Toby Purser (born 28 June 1974) is a British conductor. Early life Born in London, Purser was educated at the independent Winchester College where he was a chorister and music scholar. Purser read music at Oxford University, setting up the Ox ...

, Nicolette Wong,

Panos Karan Panos Karan (born 1982) is a British classical pianist, conductor and composer of Greek origin. He was born in Crete, and grew up in Athens, where he graduated from the American College of Greece. He studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music as ...

, Mantautas Katinas and among others. Aronovsky died on 15 December 2022, at the age of 93.

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