, 1952–2000) was a Latvia

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

n pianist.

He was trained at the Moscow Conservatory

Moscow Conservatory

The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...

 under Lev Vlasenko

Lev Vlasenko

World-renowned international concert pianist and teacher, Lev Vlassenko born in Tbilisi, 1928; died in Brisbane, 1996) He won the First Prize in the 1956 Franz Liszt Competition and was second to Van Cliburn at the I-st Tchaikovsky Competition two years later.In 1991 he was decorated a People's...

, graduating in 1975. That same year he won the Vianna da Motta International Music Competition

Vianna da Motta International Music Competition

The Vianna da Motta International Music Competition was first constituted in 1957 in Lisbon in honor of José Vianna da Motta by his disciple Sequeira Costa, who remains its president; this inaugural edition was won by Naum Shtarkman. The competition, a member of the World Federation of...

 and was appointed a teacher at the Novosibirsk Conservatory. In 1989 he was promoted to the Latvian Academy of Music, where he held a professorship and led the piano department. He served subsequently as the president of the European Piano Teachers Association's Latvian branch.

Competition record

1968	II Ciurlionis iR Republics of the Soviet Union The Republics of the Soviet Union or the Union Republics of the Soviet Union were ethnically-based administrative units that were subordinated directly to the Government of the Soviet Union... PC	3rd Prize	ex aequo with   Raimonda Šeinfeld
1975	VI Vianna da Motta IMC	1st Prize	ex aequo with   William de Van