Tatiana Stupak

Tatiana Stupak is a Limassol-based mountaineer, philanthropist, classical musician, (pianist, organist, gusli player), writer and music teacher. After qualifying in Saint Petersburg as a piano teacher, piano soloist and accompanist, she emigrated to Limassol, Cyprus, in 2007.
==Mountaineer==
Tatiana Stupak is a Guinness World Record holder, which she achieved by combining her skills as a musician with her ability to climb very high mountains.
Stupak’s first mountain summit climb was in 2019, to the highest mountain in geographical Europe, Mt Elbrus, one of the Seven Summits, in the Caucasus Mountains. She played her keyboard at the summit, and she received an award at the Olympic Hall in Nicosia from the Cyprus Mountaineering and Orienteering Federation (KOMOAAP) for reaching the summit. 
Her second Seven Summits climb was in 2020 to the highest mountain in Africa, Mt. Kilimanjaro, where she played her gusli. Global Woman Magazine published an article, reporting on her climbs of Elbrus and Kilimanjaro.
 
Her third climb was in 2022, to the highest volcano in Asia Mount Damavand, where she again played her gusli at the summit. She had TV interviews when back in Cyprus: with Sigma TV, and ANT1 Cyprus. The Cyprus newspapers Phileleftheros and the Sunday edition of Cyprus Mail reported her climb. Later, the In-Cyprus news website reported on her Damavand expedition.
Stupak’s next Seven Summits mountain climb was in January 2023 on Mt Aconcagua, the highest mountain outside Asia, where she set a new Guinness world record for the Highest Altitude Concert on Land, by playing her gusli at a height of 6,701m. For climbing Aconcagua, she received a certificate and a medal from the 7 Summits Club. Stupak was interviewed in Greek on Cyprus television stations: Sigma TV, Alpha TV Cyprus, ANT1 Cyprus TV, and on Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation's RIK 1 Radio, and on Russian Radio, Cyprus. Newspaper reports were published in the English language Cyprus Mail, in the Greek newspapers Phileleftheros, and Ephimerida Lemesos. The Russian Lifestyle magazine Stil Gizni, (issue 37(51)2023, p108) printed a 1-page story with photos, and the English & Greek Dolce magazine, (Issue 2, summer 2023, pp36-39) published a report about Stupak's climb. Stupak received an award from the Mountaineering Climbing and Orienteering Federation of Cyprus, at the Olympic Hall in Nicosia for her ascents of Mts. Kilimanjaro, Damavand and Aconcagua, and for her Guinness World Record. She wrote a book about breaking the Guinness World Record.
==Charity Concerts==
Tatiana Stupak uses her music and mountaineering skills to raise money for worthy causes, and many of these have been reported in Cyprus newspapers. In 2019 at the Presidential Palace, Nicosia, the then President of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, presented her with an award for her charity concerts which raised money for The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics. She has received several awards from other beneficiary organisations for charity concerts.
==Some studio & public piano performances by Tatiana Stupak==
Year	Composer 	Title
2015	Frédéric Chopin 	Scherzo No. 1 (Chopin), Op.20
2015	Frédéric Chopin 	Étude Op. 10, No. 5 (Chopin)
2015	Sergei Prokofiev 	'Mercutio' Op.75 No.8 from Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)
2015	Johann Sebastian Bach 	Prelude & Fugue BWV 859
2018	Franz Liszt & 
Robert Schumann	Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11 &
Intermezzo Op.4 No.5
2020	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	May, Op.37a from The Seasons (Tchaikovsky)
2020	Ludwig van Beethoven 	Moonlight Sonata, Op.27 No.2
2020	Frédéric Chopin 	Revolutionary Study, Etude Op.10 No.12
2020	Johann Sebastian Bach 	French Suites (Bach), No.2, BWV 813
2020	Frédéric Chopin 	Scherzo No. 2 (Chopin), Op.31
2023	Frédéric Chopin 	Ballade No. 1 (Chopin), Op.23
Stupak’s playing of the Chopin Ballade was commented on in the Autumn 2023 Newsletter of the Chopin Society (UK), by its president, The Lady Rose Cholmondeley ARCM. Stupak repeated the Chopin Ballade at the international Golden Time Talent competition whilst in London in July 2023, and she won the Grand Prix in the piano category. Afisha Cyprus Magazine published a 9-page biographical feature article about Stupak and her music in their December 2017-January 2018 issue.
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Category:1986 births
Category:People from Saint Petersburg
Category:Mountaineers
Category:Philanthropists
Category:Classical musicians