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Konstantin Efimov was born in 1958 in St. Petersburg, Russia, the son of stage and movie actors.

As a child, Kostia displayed a tremendous interest in music. At age 4, he learned to play hundreds of Russian folk songs.

Kostia efimov biography sample

By 7, Kostia was accepted into a special music preparatory school of the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. For the next 11 years, each day involved four to six hours of piano practice.

At 18, Kostia entered the famed St.

Petersburg Conservatory. Here he met and studied under Vladimir Nielsen, one of the last great masters of Russian Romanticism. He completed his Conservatory studies in 1982 with advanced graduate degrees in concert (solo) pianist, pianist for chamber ensemble, accompanist, and piano teacher.

Following graduation, Kostia performed throughout Russia, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia as a soloist, with orchestras, with ethnic ensembles and his own jazz-fusion group. Friends introduced him to Oscar Peterson, and modern jazz a