Natalia Khoma

Since winning top prizes at the Budapest Pablo Casals, the Markneu-kirchen and the Tchaikovsky international competitions, and first prize at the 1990 Belgrade competition, cellist Natalia Khoma has distinguished herself as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician.

A native of Lviv, Ms. Khoma studied at the Lviv and Moscow conservatories. In 1992 she was invited to be head of the jury at the First International Lysenko competition in Ukraine. A former professor at the Lviv Conservatory and at Roosevelt University in Chicago, she is currently professor of cello at Michigan State University.

Ms. Khoma has recorded with the Cambria, IMP and Ongaku labels, as well as for Soviet, German, Spanish, Yugoslav, Israeli, Hungarian, and Japanese radio and television, as well as WNYC-FM in New York and WGBH-FM in Boston.

She often appears in recitals with her husband, Armenian cellist Suren Bagratuni.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, October 15, 2000, No. 42, Vol. LXVIII

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