The Soviet pianist Rosa Tamarkina (23 March 1920 - 5 August 1950) studied at the Moscow Conservatory with A. Goldenweiser and K. Igumnov. In 1935 she won the 2nd Competition of Musician-performers from across the USSR, and in 1937 the second prize in the 3rd International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Tamarkina commenced teaching at the Moscow Conservatory in 1946. At the age of 30 she passed away due to cancer. Tamarkina was married to the pianist Emil Gilels in 1940-1944.
There are a number of CDs which have been released with Tamarkina's recordings, and some of her recordings are available on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rosa+tamarkina
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=роза+тамаркина

Photograph: Rosa Tamarkina with Jakov Zak, Witold Małcużyński and Lance Dossor. Warsaw, February 1937. Published on wikimedia commons from Koncern Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny - Archiwum Ilustracji. Public domain.

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Image: Rosa Tamarkina with Jakov Zak, Witold Małcużyński and Lance Dossor, Warsaw, February 1937.
Accessed from: By Koncern Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny - Archiwum Ilustracji - Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe, Sygnatura: 1-M-612-18, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21243652


Sources for reading, in Russian:
-'Reminiscences about Rosa Tamarkina' (Воспоминания о Розе Тамаркиной) ed. Yakov Milshtein. Moscow: Sovetskiy Kompozitor, 1989.
-'Rosa Tamarkina. Materials of her creative life, reminiscences, documents' (Роза Тамаркина. Материалы творческого пути, воспоминания, документы). ed. Tavyeva, E. A. Moscow: 2010.

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