Russian Pianist Dmitri Teterin, born in Moscow in 1971, has died on October 18 at the age of 44. Teterin studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and also at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He won many international competitions, including the International Gina Bachauer Competition in Salt Lake City in 1994 (2nd prize), the International Piano Competition in Cleveland in 1995 (3 awards), the International Piano Competition in Palm Beach in 1998 (1st prize) as well as the International Piano Competition in Cincinnati in 1998 (1st prize). In recent years his international career slowed down due to his teaching at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.