Oleksandr Bondurianskyi

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Zeilikovych and the family name is Bondurianskyi.

Oleksandr Bondurianskyi Олександр Бондурянський
Born	1945 (age 78–79) Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Genres	Classical
Occupation	Pianist
Instrument	Piano

Oleksandr Zeilikovych Bondurianskyi (born 1945) is a Ukrainian pianist and 1994 recipient of the People's Artist of Russia. who was born in Kherson, Ukraine and used to take music lessons from Alexander Sokovnin at the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts of Moldova in Chișinău. Later on, he moved to Moscow where he studied piano and chamber music at the Moscow Conservatory under guidance from both Dimitri Bashkirov and Tatiana Gaidamovich. Soon after, he became a member of Moscow Piano Trio and began traveling in Russia and in the rest of the world. He used to be a teacher of both Chișinău and Moscow Conservatories at the later of which he became a professor. Since 1995, as many as 250 students have graduated under his guidance, which later became well known chamber music teachers throughout Russia.