Lusia Glagoleva began studying the piano at four yeas of age and by age five she was enrolled in the Special Musical School for gifted children. After ten years in the Musical School, Lusia continued her education in Tambov Musical College where she studied piano with her father, Professor of Piano, Sergei Glagolev. She also pursued a second degree, which she finished, in the department of Theory and History of Music.

Lusia’s father was a well-respected and renowned artist, a brilliant pianist and conductor. He was a student of great Henrich Neihaus and Leonid Brumberg (Professor of Musical Acadamy in Vienna after his immigration from USSR).For many years Sergei Glagolev had been a Dean at one of the oldest and most famous Russian Musical College named by Rachmaninov. Great Russian and world famous artists were heard on its stage, beautiful voices sounded within its walls! Sergey Rachmaninov had been there as an Inspector of Russian Emperor Musical Society. He had an estate “Ivanovka” not so far from Tambov, where he wrote many of his best compositions and spent the most fruitful period of his life.

The Musical College has received this name after long years of fighting between the Dean Sergei Glagolev with the Ministry of Culture in the communist Soviet Union. For a long period of time, Rachmaminov’s name was under prohibition in Soviet Union because of his immigration to America in 1918. But Rachmaninov’s spirit, atmosphere of his music, and his personality made a huge influence on young musicians and culture life of college and the city. Lusia’s spring travels to Ivanovka where musicians of all generations took part in festivals and recitals with flowering lilac around were unforgettable!

Sergei Glagolev was not only a renowned pianist, he was the creator of the Opera Theatre in Tambov and the Musical Director of the Tambov Symphony Orchestra. He was a very famous teacher and many young people desired to be a students in his class. With his orchestra Lusia has performed Piano Concertos by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, and Rachmaninov. She became the winner of Musical Colleges Competition, Prokofiev Piano Competition, Festival of Soviet Composers, and Rachmaninov Festival.

The next level of Lusia’s musical education was at the Conservatory in Donetsk, Ukraine. Lusia chose the Conservatory because of the excellent musician Vitaly Chananaev, who was its professor of piano and a chairman of the Special Piano Department. Mr. Chananaev was the best and favorite student of Sergei Glagolev. Lusia was always very fortunate that her teachers knew how important it was for her to be a musician. After five years in the Conservatory she was selected as one of few candidates for Post-Graduate Study in Saratov Conservatory, Russia. Her professor there was Anatoly Katz, one of the best contemporary pianists who gives recitals and Master Classes around the world (festival in Kalmar, France; Italy, Rome; Barcelona, Spain; South Korea, Seul) and a permanent member of many International Piano Competitions. At the same time Lusia Glagoleva was invited to be a Faculty Member of Tambov Musical College.

Two years later Lusia’s  father died of cancer. It was a very painful loss for her. Lusia took on his entire class of students, who refused to continue their studies under anybody else but her.

A year later she left her native town and moved to Donetsk. Lusia was invited to become a Faculty Member of the Special Piano Department. In 1988 she became an Associate Professor of Piano and in 1991 she became Professor of Special Piano Chair.

In 1991 Lusia Glagoleva and her family arrived to America. Two months later they received an asylum status, but the family refused it because of then on-going Democratic Revolution in Moscow. The hope about democratic changes appeared, but it was only a mirage. Lusia to the USA with family for the second time at 1995. Soon Glagoleva received an EB1 Visa, and five years later became a US Citizen.  She was a Faculty Member of the Center of Performing Arts, Snellville, Atlanta Concervatory. Currently she has a private Piano Studio, she is a Pianist in Waldorf School of Atlanta, Parkway Church, Duluth and a Freelance Piano Performer.