Mikhail Sokolovsky (composer)
Mikhail Matveyevich Sokolovsky(( 1756 – after 1795) was a late 18th- century Russian opera composer, conductor and violinist.
Sokolovsky played the violin in the orchestra of the Maddox Theatre in Moscow.
It is known that he also taught singing at the university.
The music of the renowned- in- its- day opera
" The miller who was a wizard, a cheat and a matchmaker Мельник – колдун, обманщик и сват") to the text by Aleksandr Ablesimov( Moscow, 1779; Saint Petersburg, circa 1795) is attributed to him.
Only part of the score survived but Nikolai Tcherepnin completed the missing portions in 1925, enabling the work to be revived.
Sokolovsky's contemporary, composer Yevstigney Fomin later revised the music of the opera adding an overture to it.
Under the reign of autocratic Czar Nicholas I of Russia, verses of Sokolovsky that were critical of Nicholas's predecessors were often sung at anti-Nicholas rallies.
Alexander Ossovsky
Alexander Vyacheslavovich Ossovsky (July 31, 1957) was a renowned Russian musical writer, critic and musicologist, professor at Saint Petersburg Conservatory, pupil of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and friend of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Siloti and Nikolai Tcherepnin.
Alexis Golovin
Alexis Golovin( born in Moscow in 1945) is a Russian classical pianist.
Golovin began studying the piano at the age of 5 with Anna Artobolevskaya at the Central Music School of Moscow and later at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he studied both the piano and musicology.
He completed his studies at the Geneva Conservatory, where he won first prize with distinction, for virtuosity.
A prizewinner at the Casagrande Competition in Terni and the Busoni Competition in Bolzano, he has given concerts in Europe, Asia, Southern Africa, North and South America as well as at the most prestigious festivals.
He has played in duo with Martha Argerich and has given world premieres, including those of Ginastera ’s Second and Third sonatas.
He has maintained close connections with his native country and regularly performs in Moscow ’s most important concert halls, including the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory; he also performs with the State Philharmonic Orchestra.
Golovin dedicates much time to teaching – he was a professor at the Geneva Conservatory – and his students have won first prizes in various international competitions.
His prolific discography includes works by Chopin and Schumann, Rachmaninoff's Etudes Tableaux, works by Scriabin, Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1, B minor Sonata and Mephisto Waltz, chamber music, and the piano concertos by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Nikolai Tcherepnin, and Rodion Shchedrin.
Golovin has given many master classes including at the Internationale Sommerakademie Mozarteum in Salzburg, Manhattan School of Music, Conservatory of Buenos- Aires, Conservatory of Moscow, Oxford Philomusica Summer Academy and Canton International Summer Music Academy.
He is married to the Swiss actress Maya Simon, with whom he has a daughter Marina Golovine, also an actress.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Zhanna Gromova
Zhanna Fyodorovna Gromova( born 22 January 1949 in Vologda) is a Russian figure skating coach.
Among her former and current students are Nikolai Morozov, Ilia Averbukh, Sergei Dobrin, Abzal Rakimgaliev and most notably Irina Slutskaya, who had worked with Gromova for her entire career.
Zhanna Gromova," née" Krivtsun, started skating in 1960 at the local" Trud" rink.
At first she was coached by Elena Kudryashova, then she entered a sports school.
After graduation in 1966 Gromova participated in Vologda oblast figure skating competitions.
In 1971 she graduated from the Lesgeft School of Sports Science and Physical Education in Leningrad.
By distribution she was appointed for the position of figure skating coach in Norilsk.
Until the early 1970s the professional figure skating in Norilsk did not exist, as the first artificial ice rink called" Arctic" was opened in 1971.
Gromova was among the first coaches who established figure skating in that city.
In Norilsk she met her future husband and moved to Moscow with him.
She continued working as a coach.
In 1990 Gromova graduated from ice choreography faculty of GITIS.
In 2007, Vologda's skating club was renamed after her.
Nikolai Tcherepnin
Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin( Russian: Николай Николаевич Черепнин; – 26 June 1945) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor.
He was born in Saint Petersburg and studied under Nikolai Rimsky- Korsakov at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
He conducted for the first Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
Christopher Palmer
Christopher Francis Palmer( 9 September 194622 January 1995) was an English composer, arranger and orchestrator; biographer of composers, champion of lesser- known composers and writer on film music and other musical subjects; record producer; and lecturer.
He was involved in a very wide range of projects and his output was prodigious.
He came to be regarded as one of the finest symphonic orchestrators of his generation.
He was dedicated to the conservation, recording and promotion of classic film scores by composers such as Bernard Herrmann, Dimitri Tiomkin, Franz Waxman, Mikl ós Rózsa, Elmer Bernstein and others.
He wrote full biographies as well as sleeve notes, radio scripts, reviews and articles, on composers such as Benjamin Britten, Frederick Delius, Karol Szymanowski, Arthur Bliss, George Dyson, Herbert Howells, Maurice Ravel, Nikolai Tcherepnin and others.
He arranged music from the film scores and other music of William Walton, Malcolm Arnold, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Ernest Bloch.
Artists who have performed his work include José Carreras, James Galway, Julian Lloyd Webber, and Jill Gomez.
Outside the area of music, he put together anthologies of the prose of Arthur Machen and James Farrar.
He died of an AIDS- related disease at the age of 48.
Grigori Gamburg
Grigori (German) Semyonovich Gamburg (also Grigorij Gamburg, Grigory Semenovich Hamburg; in Warsaw, Vistula Land, Russian Empire – 28 October 1967 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Russian (Soviet) violinist, violist, composer and conductor.
Gamburg graduated from the Tiflis Conservatory (now the Tbilisi State Conservatoire) in 1922 studying composition with Nikolai Tcherepnin and violin with V.R. Vilshau (В.Р. Вильшау), and graduated in 1927 from the Moscow Conservatory studying composition with Nikolai Myaskovsky, violin with Boris Sibor (Борис Осипович Сибор), and conducting with Nikolai Malko.
Gamburg did postgraduate studies in chamber music, and taught chamber music classes at the Moscow Conservatory from 1928 to 1941, becoming Professor of Chamber Music in 1939.
From 1924 to 1930 he was violist with the Stradivari Quartet (of Moscow).
From the early 1930s, Gamburg was conductor of the Radio Symphony Orchestra, and of the Orchestra of the Ministry of Cinematography of the USSR where he was musical director for many Russian-language films.
From 1945–1954 Gamburg was professor of conducting at the Institute of Military Conductors (Институт Военных Дирижеров), and professor of chamber music at the Gnesin Academy of Music from 1954.
Gamburg was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1965.
Akinori Yonezawa
In November 2009, he was awarded with a Medal of Honour with purple ribbon by the Government of Japan.
He won the Senior Dahl – Nygaard Prize in 2014.
Alexander Tcherepnin
Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin( 21 January 1899 – 29 September 1977) was a Russian- born composer and pianist.
His father, Nikolai Tcherepnin( pupil of Nikolai Rimsky- Korsakov), was also a composer, as were his sons, Serge Tcherepnin and Ivan Tcherepnin, and two of his grandsons( sons of Ivan), Sergei and Stefan.
His son Serge was involved in the roots of electronic music and instruments.
His mother was a member of the artistic Benois family, a niece of Alexandre Benois.

Question: Are Nikolai Tcherepnin and Akinori Yonezawa of the same nationality?
Answer: no