“Evgenia’s playing captures nuances that make the music more vibrant and completely captivating. Her flawless voicing of melodies in both hands, her exquisite phrasing and her brilliant sense of harmonic direction are evident in everything she plays. In fact, she prefers playing “exposed” music, where there is nowhere to hide and all these elements can shimmer and speak to the audience.”
— Vancouver Westcoast Musical Society
Dr. Evgenia Rabinovich is a Vancouver-based pianist, teacher, and performer. She is the co-founder and artistic director of RR Academy and a doctoral candidate currently conducting research at the University of British Columbia. She is also the Director of KIDS at Vancouver Piano Sessions and serves as a Piano Advisor to the Pacific International Youth Music Society.
Evgenia’s specialty is guiding students towards optimal performance through effective practice. Her doctoral work, “Fostering Flow in Piano Performance through Effective Practice,” provides insight into effective practice approaches and techniques of professional-level piano performance students, linking the theory of deliberate practice to the theory of flow in performance. In 2024-2025, Evgenia conducted a study examining the practice behaviours of adolescent and young-adult classical pianists at professional or near-professional performance level through the lens of Mihali Csikszentmihalyi’s flow theory and the theory of deliberate practice proposed by K. Anders Ericsson, Ralf T. Krampe, and Clemens Tesch-Römer. Her work has been deemed instrumental in helping educators synthesize preparation and performance, providing learning strategies that positively impact performance and foster joy on stage.
A first place winner of numerous competitions, including the Canadian Music Competition, Evgenia is a summa cum laude graduate of the Mannes School of Music in NY (BMus, 2015) and the University of British Columbia (MMus, 2017; DMA 2025).
Evgenia enjoys a rewarding career as a pianist and teacher. Besides piano, she teaches theory, harmony, history, counterpoint, composition, and music literature.
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Dr. Evgenia Rabinovich 