Evgenia Rabinovich

Dr. Evgenia Rabinovich is a Vancouver-based pianist, teacher, and performer. She is a winner of numerous competitions, and a First Place winner of the 2010 National Canadian Music Competition. Evgenia is a summa cum laude graduate of both the Mannes School of Music in NY (BMus, 2015) and the University of British Columbia (MMus, 2017; DMA, 2025).

Evgenia teaches elementary, intermediate, and advanced classical piano, theory, harmony, history, counterpoint, composition, and music literature, providing instruction in both English and Russian in the Greater Vancouver Region and via her online studio.

Evgenia has been teaching piano since 2010. She has a vast range of teaching experience acquired at a young age across different disciplines.
Evgenia has spent five years working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of British Columbia’s School of Music, where she taught 8 semesters of Bachelor’s level one-on-one piano classes to undergraduate vocalists and instrumental majors.

Her previous teaching experience includes four years of teaching in New York. Between 2011 and 2015, Evgenia taught from her independent studio in Manhattan. She was simultaneously employed at the Mannes School of Music, where she taught supplementary theory classes at the request and recommendation of the faculty. At the same time, Evgenia taught off-campus supplementary piano classes to students in the Mannes Preparatory Division.

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.