Tags: Classical Music Artist.
Teofils Biķis (Liepāja 1952–2000) was a Latvian pianist.He was trained at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Vlassenko graduating in 1975. That same year he won the Vianna da Motta International Music Competition and was appointed a teacher at the Novosibirsk Conservatory. In 1989 he was promoted to the Latvian Academy of Music where he held a professorship and led the piano department. He served subsequently as the president of the European Piano Teachers Association’s Latvian branch.