美国茱莉亚音乐学院钢琴教授，有“俄罗斯钢琴女王”之称，利兹、李斯特、滨松等众多国际钢琴赛事常任评委。

　　美籍俄裔世界著名钢琴家奥克萨娜•雅布隆斯卡娅出生于莫斯科，儿童时代进入莫斯科中央天才儿童学校，后来进入莫斯科音乐学院学习。22岁时与塔吉亚娜・尼古拉耶娃建立紧密关系，随她读博士学位，后来成为她在莫斯科音乐学院的助理。毕业后她于1963年在玛格丽特・隆国际比赛、1965年在里约热内卢比赛、1969年在维也纳贝多芬比赛上均取得优异成绩。

　　前苏联时期，奥克萨娜曾在西蒙诺夫指挥的莫斯科爱乐协奏下演奏肖斯塔科维奇第一协奏曲，演出的场所是克里姆林宫。她还被授予莫斯科爱乐独奏家称号，同样获得这一称号的其他艺术家包括吉列尔斯、里希特、罗斯特罗波维奇、奥伊斯特拉赫和柯刚。与莫斯科大剧院乐团的合作、莫斯科之星、肖斯塔科维奇65岁生日音乐会上的演出都证明了她的才能。

　　1977年赴美后，奥克萨娜在40多个国家演出过，如伦敦皇家阿尔伯特大厅、伊丽莎白女王大厅、布宜诺斯艾利斯市立剧院、东京三得利音乐厅、芝加哥交响大厅等。

　　她与很多著名指挥有过合作，如基米特里耶夫、阿龙诺维奇、巴尔沙伊等，近年来她还和儿子大提琴家兼指挥家雅布隆斯基合作演出，2006年共同在马萨诸塞州杜克斯波里发起了一个新的音乐节。

　　奥克萨娜积极从事教学工作，是位德高望重的钢琴导师。她在纽约茱莉亚音乐学院担任教授，更在许多著名音乐学院和音乐节举办大师班。她还担任很多作曲家乐谱的审校工作，如奇马洛萨、柴可夫斯基、里亚多夫、巴拉基列夫、格林卡等，并由国际音乐出版公司出版。

　　奥克萨娜还担任了很多比赛的评委，如英国里兹比赛、荷兰李斯特比赛，圣彼得堡普罗科菲耶夫比赛，日本滨松比赛、霍洛维茨比赛等。

　　在她录制的众多唱片中，舒伯特歌曲李斯特改编曲获得布达佩斯李斯特学会颁发的大奖。

Oxana Yablonskaya was born in Moscow. As an adolescent she attended The Moscow Central School for the Gifted under the tutelage of Anaida Sumbatyan (who also taught Vladimir Ashkenazy) with whom she worked with until the age of 16. She later studied at the Conservatory of Moscow with the legendary Aleksandre Goldenweiser. At 22, she began a professional relationship with Tatiana Nikolayeva in the Doctorate Program, later acting as her assistant at the Moscow Conservatory. Following graduation with high honors, she was introduced to the Western World in Paris at the Jacques Long-Thibaud Competition in 1963, the Rio de Janeiro Competition in 1965, and the Vienna Beethoven Competition in 1969. She won top prizes in all three competitions, and received numerous invitations for return engagements, but unable to due to cold war.

While still in the USSR, Ms. Yablonskaya performed Shostakovich's Piano Concerto #1 with the Moscow Philharmonic under conductor Yury Simonov at the Composers Jubilee Concert in the Kremlin. She was the first performer to play Rodion Shchedrin's "Basso Ostinato," which became her signature piece. Her status as a consummate professional was heightened by many prominent Soviet and foreign composers dedicating their music to her.

Despite the reputation she had earned within the Soviet Union and being a prize winner of three international competitions, she was never permitted to play outside the Eastern Bloc. Yet, she recorded for the Melodya label and had earned the prestigious title of Soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic. The title put her in the company of elite artists such as Gilels, Richter, Rostropovich, Oistrakh and Kogan. Outstanding solo performances with the Bolshoi Orchestra, the Moscow Stars series, and the Shostokovich 65th Birthday Celebration Concert were confirmations of her remarkable talent.

In 1975, distressed over constant restraints on her personal and artistic freedom, she applied for a U.S. visa. Her actions resulted in a loss of her position as a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. She inherently was deprived of all concert engagements. She waited more than two years for a visa and finally, she was allowed to leave the country with her father and young son due to the diligence and petitioning by Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers, Katherine Hepburn, Bar Ilan, and over 45 famous writers, musicians, senators, and actors.

Ms. Yablonskaya arrived in New York in 1977, unknown, unheralded, and have not touched a piano in more than two years. She made her first New York appearance in a recital at the Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center only four months later, and received laudatory acclaim from the press. Her Carnegie Hall debut recital the following October was attended by a capacity crowd, and she has since taken her place among the major pianists of the world.

Once considered 'The best kept secret of the Soviet Union,' Ms. Yablonskaya has now performed in more than 40 countries.

Apart from Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, she has performed in the Royal Albert Hall in London, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Royal Concergebouw, Amsterdam, Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Great Hall of St. Petersburgh Philharmonic, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Sheldonyan Theatre and Holywell Music Room in Oxford, England and many more.

In recent years, Ms. Yablonskaya has collaborated with her son, renowned cellist/conductor, Dmitry Yablonsky. Their concerts have enjoyed vast public and critical acclaim. The New York Times called their Carnegie Hall debut, "A vibrant dialog." Their recordings together include duo performances for cello and piano as well as Khachaturian and Glasunov piano concertos recorded with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Brahms, Liszt 1st concertos and Chopin 1st and 2nd Concertos with Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and Mr. Yablonsky conducting.

In addition to her success as a concert pianist and recording artist, Ms. Yablonskaya has held the position of Professor of Piano at The Julliard School in New York City. She has lectured numerous master classes at many distinguished music schools, academies, conservatories and festivals throughout the world such as Newport and Bowdin in USA, Flaine and Tours in France, Lago Maggiore in Switzerlandand Oxford Philomusica in England. Dr.Yablonskaya is a Co-Founder of Puigcerda Musica Clasica International Festival in Spain since 1998.

Ms. Yablonskaya also serves as jury of many international piano competitions such as Leeds in England, Franz Liszt in the Netherlands, Prokofiev in St. Petersburg, Russia, Hamamatsu in Japan, competitions in Taiwan, Andorra, at the 2005 Seiler International Piano Competition and Vladimir Horowitz International Piano Competition.

Among her numerous recordings, Ms. Yablonskaya's Liszt / Schubert CD won the Grand Prix du Disque from the International Liszt Society in Budapest. In the December 1995 review of her Tchaikovsky CD, the American Record Guide wrote, "Oxana Yablonskaya is an artist who deserves to be heard and in any repertory she chooses."