Marina Tarasova
is an acclaimed Russian cellist, the winner of international competitions in Prague, Florence, and Paris. She was awarded the laureate of the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow and is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. She has worked with many famous musicians, such as Mikhail Pletnev, Mariss Jansons, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Kurt Masur, Edward Grach and Yuri Bashmet among others.

Tarasova lives in Moscow, where she was born. She started playing the cello at the age of six and studied with Alexander Fedorchenko at the Gnessin School and with Natalia Shakhovskaya at the Moscow State Conservatory.

Marina Tarasova’s wide repertoire covers works of composers from the 17th century to the 20th. She has recorded much Russian repertoire for Northern Flowers, including some composers little-known in the West. She has joined Divine Art Recordings Group to explore non-Russian repertoire more actively.