Tatiana Vetrinskaya received her Master of Music in Piano Performance from Turkmenistan and completed the Doctoral Program in Piano Ensemble Performance at the Gnesin Academy of Music in Moscow. In 1986, she was awarded first prize for accompaniment in the Gajibekov International Competition and subsequently performed throughout Russia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Belorussia and Turkmenistan.

While living in Turkmenistan, Tatiana became interested in contemporary American music, and in the solo and chamber music of John Donald Robb, former Dean of the UNM College of Fine Arts. She featured Robb's compositions in many of her performances, and in 1995 she became the first recipient of the John Donald Robb Musical Trust Fellowship, an award which allowed her to study the composer's original piano manuscripts at UNM, where she also earned a second Master of Music in Piano Performance.

Tatiana has soloed with the St. Louis Kamergild Chamber Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Albuquerque, the University of New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, and the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque. She has performed extensively throughout the United States and has presented concerts and lecture-performances at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, the University of Texas at El Paso, the Steinway Society Concert Series in Princeton, New Jersey, the 2003 Society of American Music Conference in Tempe, Arizona, the American Symphony Orchestra League’s 58th National Conference in San Francisco, California, and the UNM Keller Hall Series.

Tatiana is the featured performer of two CD recordings: Pictures of New Mexico and Piano Concerto with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. She has also released a CD featuring the music of Russian composers, Russia: Into the Modern World.