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Leading soloist of the Andreevsky Orchestra, a bright representative of the St. Petersburg domra school. At the age of ten, she started performing live while studiyng in S.S. Gerasimova's class at the Children's Music School in the Murmansk Region's Zapolyarny city. She continued her musical education in the class of S. N. Yudina at the Murmansk Music College, and then with Professor I.I. Shitenkov at the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) State Conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov. She won numerous prizes throughout her years of studies and frequently played both alone and with other groups, even overseas.

In 1987 she was accepted into the small domras group of the of the State Academic Russian Orchestra named after V.V.Andreev. She played in the concert duet «Tanyusha» for many years with Tatyana Kuzmenko, the soloist of the Andreevsky Orchestra and a balalaika player.

Listeners in Russia, the United States, England, France, Germany, Switzerland, China, Japan, and other nations have praised Tatyana Kostyana's exceptional performance abilities and talent. As a performer on the domra and mandolin, she collaborated with many composers and conductors, including S. Slonimsky, V. Gavrilin, I. Rogalev, Yu. Falik, D. Khokhlov, M. Jansons, A. Dmitry, A. Chernushenko, V. Altshuler.

Tatyana Kostyana’s stage work is complemented by her teaching activities as a senior teacher at the St. Petersburg Music College named after M. P. Mussorgsky. Among its graduates are the soloist of the Terem Quartet Alexey Barshchev, the soloist of the folk show Yarmarka Alena Maltseva, the laureate of international competitions, the artist of the Andreev Orchestra Glafira Machikina.