Ukrainian pianist Iryna Riabchun graduated from Ukrainian National Academy of Music where she studied piano in the class of the professor Igor Riaboff, who’s teachers were Iakov Zhak (Moscow Conservatory) and Konstantin __Mychailov. The last was one of the initiators of Kiev Conservatory (1913, now_– National Academy of Music).

The first piano teachers of Iryna were Alexandra Polishcuk, Emma Pogorelova and Nina Sumina. Among another music teachers to whom (as well as to all of mentioned higher) Iryna is very grateful were: Abram Pisarevsky, Iryna Alexandrova, Alla Skobkina, Larysa Galatenko and Vladymir Samochvalov (sol-fa, harmony); Myroslava Petrovska and Georgy Pollak (accompaniment); Larysa Raiko, Anatoly Venzega and Tatiana Arsenicheva (chamber __ensemble), Nina Naiditch (piano ensemble); Tatiana Kravchenko (Entrance to the specialty) Georgy Kyrkovsky (History of the Piano Art) Viktor Moskalenko (analyses of musical forms, interpretation of music): Galina Iermakova (polyphony); Leonid Botchkariov (music psychology); Myhailo Stepanenko, Michail Lerman, Valeria Shulgina (pedagogical __practice); Valery Korostyliov (history of the organ art); Galina Bulybenko (organ); Lydia Kuchtina, Larysa Nieboliubova, Tatiana Bakaieva, Tamara Gnativ, Olena Zinkevich, Maryna Cherkashyna-Gubarenko (history of music). __Sound track of the page: ____________________ __ V.Silvestroff "Dedication" Piano – Iryna Riabchun