Lidia Kotlova is a pianist and teacher, and CEO of usvirtualpianocompetition which encompasses participants from more than 40 countries. Lidia has a Youtube channel: Lida Kotlova Piano Studio which recently passed 1 million views because of her famous reviews on the music of South India. She has interacted with many South Indian composers and got endorsements from some of them.

Lidia earned a Bachelor's degree from Sergei Prokofiev's College of Music in Moscow and a Master's in Piano Performance degree from the University of Washington.

Lidia has had an international performing career for the past decade - she, as well as her students, played in many prestigious concert halls and radio stations in the USA, India, and Russia. Lidia worked with the University of Washington orchestra and Seattle symphony with well-known maestros like David Rahbee and with the guidance of Ludovic Morlot. Her performance became a part of the documentary magazine When The War Ends, featured by the UW television and the UW magazine Three Sixty Degrees.

Lidia is often invited as a guest artist to different shows. Recently she was featured as a visiting artist for the "World Wide Indian Idol" show- competition with the grand jury - Bollywood singer - Padma Shri Kailash Kher.

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