Igor Riabov
was born in Kremenchug in 1930. He studied piano at Lysenko Special Music
School in Kyiv and later at Kyiv State Music College. He got his degree at Kyiv
State Conservatory (professor K.Mykhaylov) and Moscow State Conservatory
(professor Y.Zack).
From 1954 he
was engaged as a soloist and accompanist at Kyiv State Philharmony. Igor Riabov
had tours in many cities of Ukraine and has many recordings in Ukraine Radio
Reserve.
Since 1962,
he has been teaching at Kyiv Tchaikovski State Conservatory and since 1997 he
has been a Professor and a Head of Piano Department.
Igor Riabov
is one of the most famous professors and piano teachers. For the long years of
his pedagogic career, he has had over 100 students. Among his pupils there are
prize-winners of international competitions - Valentina Lysytsya, Yuri Fleider,
Dmytro Naydych, Volodymyr Tyurin, Simona Frenkel, Iryna Portenko, Victoria
Yermolyeva, and Iryna Starodub who are leading concert lives in different
countries throughout the world.
Igor Riabov
is working actively in the field of scientific methodic principles. He is an
author of scientific methodic researches that feature questions of training and
teaching pianists. He gives regular master-classes, seminars and consultations
in different educational institutions of Ukraine.
In 1997 he
received the status of Merited Art Worker of Ukraine.