
Tatyana’s performance is noted for a special fullness and softness of sound, delicate and sensual musicality, elegance of style, virtuosity and reach repertoire. She has another talent: She writes her own songs. They combine meaningful content, accessibility, emotional warmth and theatrical expressiveness. Her recordings attracted more than 300 000 visitors on the Internet and the tendency is growing.
At present she actively continues her stage career and leads guitar classes at music schools in Achim and Bremen.
She is prize-winner of various competitions in Belarus, Russia, Poland and other countries, participant at inrnational festivals in Poland, Germany, Italy etc.
Prizes and Top Rankings in Competitions:
2009 Scholarship holder of the “Neue Liszt Stiftung”, Weimar
2004 First competition for musicians of the Republic of Belarus “Heinrich Wagner” ( First price)
2000 First guitar music competition for youth “Andres Segovia” in Velbert, Germany (diploma).
1999 An international folk-instruments competition for youth in Murmansk, Russia ( Third price)
1999 The folk-music instruments competition of the Republic of Belarus (First price)
1998 Second international forum of Belarus music for youth. ( The winner)
1997 Second international competition of the group “Ghitaralia 1997” in Poland (diploma, no score between the participants under 15)
Tatyana took master-classes by the leading guitarists of Europe, such as Carlo Marchione, Pavel Steidl, John Dearman (LAGQ), Olaf van Gonnissen, Giampaolo Bandini, Darko Petrinjak; Tomasz Zawierucha, Kurt Rodarmer among others.
In 1999 Tatyana Ryzhkova was given the scholarship of the Presidential foundation in support of young talents. Various radio and TV performances helped her win love and success of the public. Tatyana Ryzhkova started her higher education under the guidance of Michael Zhuravlev at the Glinka Music College in Minsk.
Tatyana Ryzhkova was born in 1986 in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. She took her first guitar lessons by the best music teacher of Belarus V.V.Gromov. Thanks to her talent and perseverance she was able under the guidance of the teacher to achieve a high proficiency level, which allowed her to perform successfully at an international duets competition in Poland. As the youngest competitor Tatyana got the highest mark in her group and was given an honorary diploma.
After only one year she successfully passed all the necessary exams and was accepted in the Liszt Academy of Music Weimar, Germany (Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar) into one of the most prestigious guitar classes by the famous professor of guitar Thomas Müller-Pering.
In the following 2,5 years Tatyana took part in more than 200 concerts at the most significant stages of Minsk and Belarus, such as the Big Hall of The National Philharmonic, Theatre of Musical Comedy, the Church of St. Roch and also at some governmental and presidential concerts.
Tatyana Ryzhkova supports humanitarian activities of Lions Club Vienna MozART.






