One of the last students of Alexander Goldenweiser, the Moscow pianist Nelly Akopian Tamarina died today at the age of 84.
Banned for a while by the Soviets, she taught in London at the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music and made several recordings.
She was also a gifted painter.
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