Lev Eduardovich Conus (Russian: Лев Эдуа́рдович Коню́с , "Lev Eduárdovič Konyús"), known in Western Europe and the US as Leon Conus (1871–1944), was a Russian pianist, music educator, and composer.
 A brother of the composers Georgi Conus and Julius Conus, he studied together with Sergei Rachmaninoff in Anton Arensky's advanced composition class and served as chief professor of piano at the Moscow Conservatory until 1918.
 Together with his wife, the pianist and pedagogue Olga Kovalevskaya Conus (1890-1976) they left the Soviet Union for Paris in 1921 where he subsequently taught at the city's Russian Conservatory, before finally moving to the United States in 1935.
 He taught in Cincinnati until his death at the age of 73.
 After his death, his wife published Fundamentals of Piano Technique, an influential book of Leon Conus's technical exercises for pianists.
Oksana Petrovna Grigorieva (Russian: Оксана Григорьева ; born 23 February 1970) is a Russian singer-songwriter and pianist.
 She was born in Saransk, Mordovia, USSR, and raised in Ukraine and Russia.
 She studied music in Moscow and completed conservatoire studies in Kazan, before moving to London.
 After studying music at the Royal Academy of Music, she moved to the United States, with periods spent living in New York City and Los Angeles, California.
 She taught music in the U.S., and patented a technique of teaching musical notation to children.
Pet Dog Storm is a band from Warwickshire in the UK, recently signed to Integrity Records.
 The band's debut single Time to Fly was played by taste-makers Tom Robinson on BBC Radio 6 Music and John Kennedy on XFM and features on the band's debut album Beautiful is Down which was released on 4 December 2011.
Vladimir Pavlovich Ovchinnikov (Russian: Владимир Павлович Овчинников ; born January 2, 1958) is a Russian pianist from Belebey, Bashkir ASSR.
 He is the only pianist ever to win the top prizes at both the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1982, first prize not awarded, received a joint 2nd prize with Peter Donohoe) and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition (1987).
 Artistic Director of the Association of Tchaikovsky Competition Stars since 2000.
Beautiful Heartache is a 2009 music album by Russian pianist and singer-songwriter, Oksana Grigorieva, with Mel Gibson as executive producer.
 Born in Saransk, Russia, Grigorieva studied music in Moscow and Kazan, and at the Royal College of Music in London.
 She later moved to the U.S. and patented a technique of instructing music notation to children.
 Grigorieva gained attention as a songwriter in 2006 after a song that she wrote, "Un Dia Llegara", became popular on the Josh Groban album "Awake".
It Ain't Easy is the name of a 1982 Country Music album by Country music recording artist Janie Fricke.
 This was one of her most successful albums.
 The album featured her four big hits that year; "He's a Heartache (Looking for a Place to Happen)", "Tell Me a Lie", "It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy", and "You Don't Know Love"; the first three becoming #1 hits in that year.
 The album rose on the US Country Albums Chart, breaking into the top twenty and peaking at #15.
Stanisław Drzewiecki (born 1987) is a Polish pianist and composer.
 His parents are Russian pianist Tatiana Shebanova and Polish pianist Jarosław Drzewiecki.
 Drzewiecki began playing the piano aged four and made his first stage appearance aged five.
 In 2000 he won the Eurovision Young Musicians competition.
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (Russian: Ми́лий Алексе́евич Бала́кирев , ] ; 2 January 1837  – 29 May [O.S. 16 May] 1910 ) was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian composers, notably Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
 He began his career as a pivotal figure, extending the fusion of traditional folk music and experimental classical music practices begun by composer Mikhail Glinka.
 In the process, Balakirev developed musical patterns that could express overt nationalistic feeling.
 After a nervous breakdown and consequential sabbatical, he returned to classical music but did not wield the same level of influence as before.
Josef Dachs (30 September 1825 – 6 June 1896) was an Austrian pianist and music teacher born in Regensburg.
 He received his music education by Simon Sechter and Carl Czerny, worked as a concert pianist and premiered many of his works.
 He became professor at the Vienna Conservatory in 1850.
 Among others, he taught Isabelle Vengerova, Hugo Wolf, Ferdinand Löwe, and Russian pianist and composer Josef Rubinstein (1847-1884).
 He died in Vienna.
Anna t'Haron is a pen name of "Anna Yevdokimova" (date of birth: 6 August 1978, place of birth: Chimkent (Russian: "Чимкент" ), Kazakh SSR) – a Russian pianist, laureate of the All-Russian and International chamber music and piano-duo competitions.
 Since 2009 Anna is a grant holder of the "Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds".

Question: The 2009 music album Beautiful Heartache was by this Russian pianist and singer-songwriter who was born in which year?
Answer: 1970