Sulamita Aronovsky

Aronovsky was born in Kaunas, Lithuania on 5 May 1929. Her teachers included Lev Barenboim, Abram Schatzkes, Grigory Ginsburg and Aleksandr Goldenweiser.
An experienced Juror of International Competitions, she founded the London International Piano Competition in 1991.
In 1971, after visiting family in the USA, she decided to defect to Britain, where she settled in Manchester, teaching at the Royal Northern College of Music.
In the 1990s, Aronovsky moved to London, where she served as Professor of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music.
Aronovsky's students included Peter Lawson, David Fanning, Julia Goldstein, Vovka Ashkenazy, Melani Mestre, Michael Bell, John Thwaites, Pamela Chowhan, Ian Flint, Amir Katz, Andrew Wilde, Ian Fountain, Stefan Ćirić, Junko Urayama, Nils Franke, Howard Evans, Gareth Jones, Nicolas Hodges, Beate Perrey, Jonathan Powell, Nicholas Angelich, Bartosz Barasinski, Raul Jimenez, Toby Purser, Nicolette Wong, Panos Karan, Mantautas Katinas, Adam Repa and Riyad Nicolas among others.
Aronovsky died on 15 December 2022, at the age of 93.