Laura Tishchenko

Laura Tishchenko graduated from the Institute of the Arts in Kharkov, Ukraine. She worked at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Moscow for 8 years with Alexander Prokofiev, Maxim Martirosian, Elena Riabinkina, among others. She also worked at San Francisco Ballet for 17 years with Helgi Tomasson, Lola de Avila, Jorge Esquivel and Irina Jacobson before becoming the accompanist for the National Ballet Academy of the Netherlands from 2011 to 2013. Currently, Tishchenko plays for The Juilliard School and the School of the American Ballet Theatre.

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