Alla Voskoboynikova

(Coordinator of Piano Studies)

Alla Voskoboynikova has held the position of Coordinator of Piano Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis since 2004. She extensively performs and collaborates with local musicians and regularly accompanies and coaches for the Union Avenue Opera Company as well as Webster University in St. Louis.

Before moving to the United States in 1996, Alla Voskoboynikova was a pianist and vocal coach at the Kiev Opera and Ballet Theater in Ukraine. She received her Bachelors Degree in Piano Performance from the Music College in Voronezh, Russia and her Master’s Degree in Piano Performance from the Gnessins Academy of Music in Moscow, Russia. Her teachers were Oleg Milman and Lina Bulatova (student of Elena Gnessina and Henry Neihaus). Alla was an accompanist in the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1996 and has performed numerous solo recitals along with chamber music in several European countries.

Since moving to the United States, Alla has collaborated with several members of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, performing chamber music. In 1998, she performed at Carnegie Recital Hall with flautist Brenda Hagni and in 2002, Alla performed Rachmaninov’s second concerto with the Webster University Symphony Orchestra. In February 2004, Alla was the Russian coach for the St. Louis Symphony performance of Sergei Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky and coached the St. Louis Symphony Chorus for the performance of Sergei Rachmaninov’s Vespers in November 2006. In past years, Alla has organized a series of chamber music recitals, the latest of which commemorated Dmitri Shostakovich’s 100th Anniversary.

Contact Information

Phone: 314-516-4198
voskoboynikovaa@umsl.edu