Dimitri Bashkirov

Dmitri Aleksandrovich Bashkirov (; November 1, 1931 – March 7, 2021) was a Russian pianist and academic teacher. Trained in his hometown Tbilisi and Moscow, he began an international career as a soloist when he won the Marguerite Long Piano Competition in Paris in 1955. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1957 to 1991, and at the Queen Sofia College of Music in Madrid from 1991 to 2021. He taught also as a guest at other international conservatories and he is regarded as a representative of the Russian piano school. was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. He taught many internationally renowned artists such as Dmitri Alexeev, He was juror for the Artur Rubinstein Competition in 1992, 1998 and 2011. His son, Kirill Bashkirov, is a photographer specialised in portraiture, landscape and sports.

Bashkirov died in Madrid on March 7, 2021, at age 89.