For many years Marina Tarasova has been one of the most renowned Russian cellists; a winner of Internatonal Compettons in Prague, Florence and Paris and a laureate of Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Internatonal Competton. Having performed on the concert platorm since the age of 16, she has many top-selling discs in Concertos by Myaskovsky, Kabalevsky, Davidof, Khachaturian, as well as collectons by Rachmaninov and Cassado (all ALTO), and newer ones on Northern Flowers of Weinberg (three discs), and Davidof, plus Sonatas of Shostakovich, Prokofev and Khachaturian.
Her repertoire includes works by Russian and Western European composers from the 17th century to the 20th. She is among the frst to have played works by modern Russian composers such as Andrei Eshpai, Boris Tchaikovsky, Kirill Volkov, Shirvani Chalaev and Oleg Galahov. She has performed with many prominent musicians including Yuri Bashmet, Edward Grach, Frank-Immo Zichner, Pascal Devoyon and Christan Ivaldi, and with, among others, the conductors Mariss Jansons, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Kurt Masur, and Mikhail Pletnev. Since 2005 she has been the President and a solo-cellist of the charity foundaton known as the Internatonal Classical Music Salon of Marina Tarasova and Alexander Polezhaev and is also the director of Santa, an organizaton for the rescue of stray animals. In 2006 she promoted 120 concerts for the charity foundaton Stars of Russia and Europe. In 2007, another 80 concerts (including internatonal festvals) and the following year, 110 concerts of Russian music across Turkey and in Moscow. In 2009, 90 concerts in Russian cites, in memory of victms of terrorism and, in 2010, more charity concerts to help protect stray animals and the environment. In August 1995 Marina Tarasova was awarded the honorary ttle ‘Meritorious Artst of the Russian Federaton’ and, in 2004, the charity Benefactors of the Century made her a member of the order The Patrons of the Century and, in 2007, this same fund awarded her the Patron’s Golden Certfcate. Also in 2007 she was awarded the Order for the Revitalizaton of Traditons of Charity and Patronage.
