Pianist Vadym Kholodenko, the winner of the gold medal at the Van Cliburn in 2013, is not a suspect after his two young daughters were found dead in their beds, yet their mother injured by multiple stabbing is being held at a hospital for a mental health evaluation, police said Friday.
According to local press reports, police said Kholodenko called 911 Thursday after he came to pick up his children at their home in Benbrook, southwest of Fort Worth. He found his wife, 31-year-old Sofya Tsygankova, with multiple stab wounds and his daughters Nika Kholodenko, 5, and Michela Kholodenko, 1, dead in their beds with no visible signs of trauma.
Officials also said they couldn’t say whether the mother’s stab wounds were self-inflicted or whether one has to consider her a suspect in her daughters’ deaths. But apparently police is not searching for anyone else.
The couple, who married in April 2010, were going through a divorce and had not lived together since August 2015. Kholodenko had been scheduled to play three concerts with the Fort Worth Symphony this weekend, but he will be replaced by Alessio Bax, an Italian pianist.
