Zara Levina

{{family name hatnote|Aleksandrovna|Levina|lang=Eastern Slavic}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Zara Levina

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| native_name = {{nobold|Зара Левина}}

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| birth_date = {{OldStyleDateDY|5 February|1906|25 January}}

| birth_place = Simferopol, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine)

| death_date = {{death date and age|1976|6|27|1906|2|5|df=yes}}

| death_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

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| occupation = {{flatlist|

• Pianist
• composer}}

| genre = Classical

| instrument = Piano

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Zara Aleksandrovna Levina{{efn|name=spelling|{{bulleted list|{{langx|ru|Зара Александровна Левина|{{transliteration|ru|Zara Aleksandrovna Levina}}}}|

{{langx|uk|Зара Олександрівна Левіна|{{transliteration|uk|ukrainian|Zara Oleksandrivna Levina}}}}}}}} ({{OldStyleDateDY|5 February|1906|25 January}}{{snd}}27 June, 1976) was a Soviet pianist and composer.

She born in Simferopol, Russian Empire and was from a Jewish family. Zara Levina studied piano in the Odessa Conservatory, which she passed with a gold medal. She graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1932, where she had studied piano and composition.

In her early age, Zara Levina admired the composers Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Beethoven and Schumann. She mainly wrote choral works (mostly romances, then children's songs), also other vocal music, as well as two piano concertos and solo piano works. The inspiration of those five composers is evident throughout her works. Both of her piano concertos have been recorded, as has her 1928 first violin sonata (by David Oistrakh). She was married to the composer {{ill|Nikolai Chemberdzhi|ru|Чемберджи, Николай Карпович}} (1903–1948). Her grandson is the pianist Alexander Melnikov. Her granddaughter is the pianist and composer Katia Tchemberdji. She died in Moscow.