Question: Brenno Ambrosini has lauded the work of which former Soviet composer and pianist?
Context: Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov (Russian: Ти́хон Никола́евич Хре́нников ; 10 June [O.S. 28 May] 1913  – 14 August 2007) was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, and leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, who was also known for his political activities.  He wrote three symphonies, four piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, operas, operettas, ballets, chamber music, incidental music and film music. Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko (Russian Бори́с Ива́нович Ти́щенко; 23 March 1939 – 9 December 2010) was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist. Arif Malikov (also Melikov; September 13, 1933 in Baku) is an Azerbaijani and Soviet composer.  He graduated from the Baku Conservatory as a music composer in 1958.  He shot to fame in 1961 when his first major composition "Legend of Love" was staged at the Kirov State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Leningrad (present day St Petersburg) and received nationwide acclaim.  The ballet has been staged in several countries in Europe and is regarded as one of the finest works emerging from the former Soviet Union.  The ballet "Legend of Love", is based upon the legend of "Farhad and Shirin", a story of unrequited love that was immortalized by Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet.  Since then, Malikov has written music for two more ballets including "Yer üzündə iki nəfər (balet)" ("Dvoe" or "Two") (1967) and "Poem of Two Hearts" (1981), five symphonies & eight symphony poems.  He has also written scores for a large number of films and plays and is familiar with practically all genres of music composition. As the fall of the Soviet Union appeared eminent, the United States and their allies began to worry about the concept that the nuclear weapons held in smaller countries by the Soviet Union could fall or would fall into enemy hands.  The Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program was an initiative housed within the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).  The CTR program is better known as the Nunn–Lugar Act based on the Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991 which was authored and cosponsored by Sens.  Sam Nunn (D-GA) and Richard Lugar (R-IN).  This Act was created in 1986 in a congressional meeting.  According to the CTR website, "the purpose of the CTR Program is to secure and dismantle weapons of mass destruction and their associated infrastructure in former Soviet Union states. "Another explanation of purpose of the program is "to secure and dismantle weapons of mass destruction in states of the former Soviet Union and beyond". David Jonathan Waksberg, born December 14, 1956 in New York City, was a leading activist in the Soviet Jewry Movement during the 1980s and early 1990s.  In the 1970s he became involved in the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry.  In the early 1980s he moved to California and began working for the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews, first as Assistant Director, and later as Executive Director.  He initiated public and political activities on behalf of Soviet Jewry, supervised research and monitoring of their welfare and coordinated financial, medical and legal aid to Refuseniks and Prisoners of Conscience trapped in the Soviet Union.  He organized numerous protest demonstrations and vigils to raise public awareness of the plight of Jews in the USSR.  In 1985 Waksberg became National Vice-President of BACSJ's umbrella organization, the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews.  Waksberg frequently visited Jewish communities the Soviet Union and the Former Soviet states and coordinated briefings of the American travelers interested in visiting those communities.  In 1990 Waksberg took on the role of Director of the Center for Jewish Renewal, newly established by UCSJ.  The mission of the CJR was to promote the renewal and development of Jewish life in the USSR and the emigration rights, human rights and resettlement needs of Jews in the Former Soviet Union.  The CJR established a network of human rights and emigration bureaus in major cities of the former Soviet Union.  In mid-1990s Waksberg was a member of Bay Area Council's Board of Directors and served as Director of Development and Communication of the UCSJ.  Since 2007 Waksberg serves as Executive Director of the Bureau of Jewish Education of San Francisco. The Russian language in Israel is spoken natively by a large proportion of the population, reaching about 20 percent of the total population by 1989, mostly by immigrants who came from the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s and later years.  It is a major foreign language in the country and is used in many aspects of life.  Russian is by far the most used non-official native language in Israel.  The government and businesses often provide information in Russian, and it is semi-official in some areas with high concentration of Russian Jewish immigrants.  The Russian-speaking population of Israel is the world's third-largest population of Russian native-speakers living outside the former Soviet Union territories after Germany and the United States, and the highest as a proportion of the population.  As of 2013, 1,231,003 residents of the Post-Soviet states have immigrated to Israel since the fall of the Soviet Union.  As of 2017, there are up to 1.5 million Russian-speaking Israelis out of total population of 8,700,000 ( 17.25% ). 3803 KM is the designation of a free-standing lattice tower used for broadcasting purposes, which was built in several towns of former Soviet Union after 1954 for FM- and TV-broadcasting.  Towers of this type, which was developed by the Soviet Institute for Steel Construction, are still in use in many towns of former Soviet Union and are often characteristic landmarks of these towns.  The 3803 KM tower is 180 metres tall and has in 140 and 148 metres height a deck for antennas. Brenno Ambrosini is an Italian pianist, born in Veneto, who is active in Spain.  In 1990, he began performing with Mark Lubotsky.  After being homoured in the leading Spanish piano competitions (1988–1992), he developed a teaching career and became involved in the Spanish contemporary music scene.  He has championed the piano music of Soviet contemporary composers such as Arvo Pärt, Sofia Gubaidulina, Boris Tishchenko and Alfred Schnittke, and has kept a close artistic relationship with local composers such as Francisco Llácer Pla.  Since 1994, he has played in a piano duo with David Kuijken, having developed his chamber music career with the Brodsky and Pražák string quartets.  He was a professor in the Conservatory of Castellón, in whose University he graduated in philosophy, and a member of the London Liszt Society. The Soviet Air Forces (Russian: Военно-воздушные силы , "Voyenno-Vozdushnye Sily" (VVS), literally "Military Air Forces") was the official designation of one of the air forces of the Soviet Union.  The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces.  The Air Forces were formed from components of the Imperial Russian Air Service in 1917, and faced their greatest test during World War II.  The groups were also involved in the Korean War, and dissolved along with the Soviet Union itself in 1991–92.  Former Soviet Air Forces' assets were subsequently divided into several air forces of former Soviet republics, including the new Russian Air Force.  "March of the Pilots" was its anthem. The post-Soviet states, also collectively known as the former Soviet Union (FSU) or former Soviet Republics, are the 15 independent states that emerged from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in its dissolution in December 1991, with Russia internationally recognised as the successor state to the Soviet Union.  On March 11, 1990, Lithuania was the first to declare its independence, with Estonia and Latvia following suit in August 1991.  All three Baltic states claimed continuity from the original states that existed prior to their annexation by the Soviet Union in 1944 and were admitted to the United Nations on 17 September 1991.  The remaining 12 republics all subsequently seceded.  12 of the 15 states, excluding the Baltic states, initially formed the CIS and most joined CSTO, while the Baltic states focused on European Union and NATO membership.
Answer: Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko