Nina Svetlanova

Nina Svetlanova (born in Kiev, Ukraine Ukrainian SSR, January 23, 1932 - died September 19, 2019) is a Russian-American concert pianist and educator, musicologist. Before marriage, she bore the surname Nikolaeva = Николаева. She became a naturalized US citizen in 1983. Since the late 1970s, she has taught piano at New York's Manhattan School of Music and Mann College of Music. Before her teaching career, she was known as a concert pianist and collaboration artist, being the primary pianist working with the Armenian mezzo-soprano Zara Dolukhanova = Зара Долуханова. She was the second wife of the Russian conductor Evgeni Svetlanov, the author of articles and books about him.