Alla Artemova is a professional pianist and a piano teacher. She began her musical education at the Moscow School of Arts for Children when she was 6 years old. She finished Gnessin Music School, and graduated from Conservatory of Music, the State Classical Academy in Moscow, Russia.
Her education trained her to be both a performer and a teacher. Alla Artemova has over 25 years of teaching experience with students of all ages and levels.
Alla moved to the US in 2004, and established Alla Artemova Piano Studio in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she taught piano until moving to Austin, TX in 2020. She is excited to welcome new students to her Bright Keys Piano Studio. Alla is an active member of Austin District Music Teachers Association (ADMTA), Texas Music Teachers Association (TMTA), Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), National Guild of Piano Teachers/The American College of Musicians and an affiliated member of the Steinway Teacher and Educational Partner Programs.
In addition to her teaching career, Alla has extensively performed in the US and abroad as a soloist, chamber musician, and as an accompanist with various choral groups, instrumentalists and vocalists. Her collaborative pianist engagements also include K-12 music programs, church programs, ballet programs, musical theater and opera productions, competitions, auditions, festivals and more.
Alla currently serves as pianist and organist at St. John's Global Methodist Church in Georgetown.
Alla's collaborative pianist work includes:
Austin ISD, Round Rock ISD, Pflugerville ISD, The Georgetown Palace Theatre, National Children's Chorus Austin, Christian Academy of Performing Arts Austin, San Francisco Girls Chorus, San Francisco Theological Seminary, Marin Girls Chorus, Verismo Opera, Marin Baroque, Consort Chorale, Women's vocal ensemble Musae, Singers Marin, Bay Shore Lyric Opera, Marin Men's Chorus, Sonoma Valley Chorale, Young Women's Choral Project, CinnaSingers, Throckmorton Chorus, Women's vocal ensemble Cinnagals, Children music program Music Makers, and many more. Alla also served as pianist, organist and choir accompanist at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Tiburon, CA for 14 years, and prior to that at All Saints Lutheran Church in Novato, CA. Her most recent international performances include concerts at churches and concert halls of Great Britain, Poland, Italy and the Vatican.