Hanna Danylivna Artobolevska (Anna Artobolevska; maiden name Karpeka; 17 October (4 October) 1905, Kyiv - 2 May 1988, Moscow) was a pianist and music teacher. Honoured Teacher of the RSFSR (1966).
Biography.
Hanna Karpeka was born in 1905 in Kyiv in the family of Danylo Karpeka (1856-1914), the owner of sugar factories in Chernihiv and Kyiv provinces. She lived with her parents on Volodymyrska Street in the house where the administration of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv is located today.
She studied at the Kyiv Music School. At the age of 13, she entered the Kyiv Conservatory (class of Volodymyr Pukhalskyi) and graduated in 1924.
In 1921, she met Father Anatolii Zhurakovskyi (1898-1937), a newly martyred priest, confessor of the faith, theologian, and spiritual writer who became Anna's spiritual mentor.
1930 - graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory (class of Maria Yudina).
She perfected her skills at the Masterschule (Berlin).
She worked as a teacher at a music school in Leningrad, gave solo concerts as a pianist, and also took part in concerts of her husband, a master of the artistic word, writer Georgy Vladimirovich Artobolevsky (1898-1943). Together with her husband, she performed in the brigade for artistic service of troops during the Second World War. After her husband's death in 1943, she ended her concert career and devoted herself to teaching.
1943-1953 - teaches at the Moscow Conservatory and the Gnesin Music School.
Since 1944 she has been teaching at the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatoire.
She created her own piano school. Among her students are O. Lyubimov, O. Nasedkin, V. Ovchinnikov, S. Slonimsky, L. Timofeeva, R. Tamarkina, V. Rudenko, and Y. Korolev.
He is the author of works on children's music education and teaching aids.
In 2005, a piano festival dedicated to her was held in Moscow.
Family ties.
Father - sugar producer and landowner Karpeka Danylo Oleksandrovych. Mother - Yevheniia Lukivna Karpeka (Yarmush).
Her elder brother Oleksandr Karpeka (1894-1918) was one of the first Ukrainian aircraft designers and pilots, who built aircraft of his own design in the yard of his parents' estate. She had a sister, Olha Karpeko-Hlevaska (1892-1977). Historian Serhii Bilokin dedicated his research on the Ukrainian aristocracy to the memory of Anna and Olha.
She was the daughter-in-law of zoologist Volodymyr Artobolevskyi.
Anna Artobolevska's daughter Nataliia Heorhiiivna Artobolevska (1928-2009). Her grandson is Heorhii Artobolevskyi.
