GAKKEL Leonid Evgenjevich

Born January 27, 1936 in Leningrad in the family theater director EG Gakkel. He graduated from the Leningrad State Conservatory named after Rimsky-Korsakov's piano and Post Graduate Degree in history and theory of performing. "
Doctor of Arts, Professor of St. Petersburg Conservatory. Author of books and articles on the history of piano art, topical issues of contemporary musical life, constantly appears on radio and television, in Moscow and St. Petersburg Union of Composers gazetah.Chlen.
Honored Artist of Russia, Academician of Russia Academy of the Humanities.
He is married and has two children.