Xenia Prochorowa

Prochorowa was born in Moscow, Russian Empire, in 1915. She studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory under Karl Kipp, and later with Nikolai Medtner.^[1]

She gained early acclaim as an interpreter of Franz Liszt in 1925.^[2] In 1933, she competed in the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in Budapest, where she won a prize. Afterwards, she began performing concerts across Latin America from 1933 to 1952,^[3][4] and across Europe until 1963.^[5] She recorded a piano solo for Julio Bracho's Mexican film Twilight in 1945.^[6]

Her renditions of Russian classical music were published by the Haydn Society of Boston,^[7] and recordings of Tchaikovsky^[8] and Chopin were republished by Forgotten Records in 2017.^[9] A collection of her recordings, letters, and photographs is held in the Stanford University Libraries archive^[10] and the Library of Congress.^[11]

She was appointed a piano lecturer at the University of Cape Town College of Music in South Africa.^[12][13]

She passed away in 1991 in San Francisco, aged 76.

She married Leo Allan Grönroos (1926 –1971), a Finnish aviator.