He won the VI Robert Schumann Competition before graduating in 1975 from the Moscow Conservatory.
A graduate from the Conservatoire de Paris (where he teaches nowadays), he was the first Western European pianist to win the Robert Schumann Competition (1981) and was subsequently prized at the Casadesus Competition (1985).
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As a student Akopian-Tamarina won the Gold Medal at the 1963 Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers in Zwickau, and in 1974, succeeding Richter, Nikolayeva and Gilels, was awarded the Robert Schumann Prize.