CSM Galicia Piano Professors

ILONA TIMCHENKO

Piano Associate Professor

Web: www.timchenko.eu

Thanks to having won the First Prize in the third Abstract Securitirs contest, Landor Competition got a recording contract with Landor Records.

He began his musical training at a very young age. Very soon he moved to Moscow where he continued his piano studies and later perfected his training in the Netherlands, Italy and France.

He has performed with the Orchestra of the Academic Capella of Saint Petersburg, the Philharmonic of the Radio of Holland, Orchestra of the North of Holland, Royal Philharmonic of Flanders, Symphonic Orchestra of Granada, Royal Philharmonic of Galicia, Orchestra of the Radio of Romania, etc.

You can read her full CV here.

PAULA GAGO

(Deputy Director)

Piano Accompanist

He was born in Marín (Pontevedra) and began his musical studies there at the age of 8.

She was trained at the CMUS in Pontevedra and Santiago de Compostela and has the title of Superior Teacher in the specialties of Piano and Chamber Music. Since 1995 he has accompanied instrumentalists of all specialties in tests, concerts, competitions, courses and competitions. She is the pianist of Camerata Arven and member of the Municipal Bands of Valga and Catoira. 

AVEDIS KOUYOUMIDJIAN

Piano Guest Professor

He was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and began his studies when he was 12 years old at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien.

At university he studied with Professor Dieter Weber, Noel Flores, Alexander Jenner and Georg Ebert. He continued his graduate work with Djanko Iliev, Stanislaw Neuhaus, and Alica Kezeradze.

He won first prize at The International Beethoven Piano Competition Vienna in 1981.

He teaches at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth and at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien.

You can read his full CV here.