Zlata Tkach - Jewish Prelude - Gas Nign (Arjen Seinen - Piano)

Zlata Moiseyevna Tkach (née Zlote Beyrihman; Russian: Злата Моисеевна Ткач; Yiddish: זלאַטע טקאַטש‎; Romanian: Zlata Tcaci; 16 May 1928 - 1 January 2006) was a Moldovan composer and music educator.
Zlata studied physics and mathematics at the University of Chișinău and then entered the Musicology Department of the Kishinev Conservatory, where she graduated in 1952. She studied composition with Leonid Gurov, and violin with I. L. Daylisa. From 1952 to 1962 she taught at a music school in Chișinău. In 1957 she continued her studies in the Conservatory's composition class, and after graduating in 1962 became a teacher there and continued to work at the Conservatory until the end of her life. In 1986 she became an Associate Professor, and in 1993 a full Professor of composition.
She was the Honored Artist of the Moldavian SSR (1974), winner of State Prize of Moldova (1982), and Chevalier of the Order of Work Merit.
Zlata Tkach married the Moldovan musicologist Efim Markovich Tkach (1926-2003), who was an author and editor of books in Russian and Moldovan. She died in 2006 in Chișinău.