Vera Watanabe

Piano

Russian born pianist and teacher Dr. Vera Oussetskaia completed her entire nineteen years of full time musical training at the Gifted School and Conservatory in Ekaterinburg, Russia.  Vera graduated with the highest Russian postgraduate degree "Aspirantura" (the U.S. equivalent of a DMA degree) from the Ural State Mussorgsky Music Conservatory.  Vera's teachers at the gifted school and the Conservatory were Natalia Pankova and Natalia Litvinova.

Dr. Oussetkaia's students have been accepted into many prestigious music schools including the Juilliard School, the New England Conservatory of Music, Peabody Institute, Manhattan School of Music, Eastman, and the Cleveland Institute of Music.  Her Students have been recognized at national and international competitions.

Currently residing and teaching in Utah, Dr. Oussetskaia-Watanabe is a Steinway Artist.