Nicolai Andre Lomov, Phd

Nicolai Andre Lomov, PhD, 74
World-Class Pianist, Organist, Professor of Music and Private Instructor for Intermediate Pianists
Nicolai Andre Lomov, PhD, 74, of Westerly, RI, passed away on Friday, July 24, 2020 at the Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, CT following a period of declining health.  He was the husband of Loretta (Petrulyte) Lomov to whom he was married in 1994 in Boston, MA.
Born in Yekaterinburg, Russia on February 9, 1946, Nicolai resided in Russia until emigrating to the United States in 1990 and settling in Massachusetts and, later, Rhode Island.
Nicolai Lomov began playing piano at the age of three. At five, he was enrolled at the Mussorgsky State School for Gifted Children. Lomov made his musical debut with the Ekaterinburg Philharmonic Orchestra, playing Tchaikovsky's Concerto in B-Flat Minor Op. 23 at 15.
His formative training took place at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, completing his Ph.D. in 1971. In 1990, leaving behind a teaching position at the St. Petersburg Leningrad State Conservatory, he emigrated to the United States. He found himself in Fitchburg, MA. where he began recording the piano compositions of the late Serge Conus. He later disappeared and later resurfaced working in the Federal Reserve Bank's sixth floor kitchen, while also teaching classes in piano. The documentary Nicolai Lomov, Russian Pianist and American Dishwasher chronicles this story. After being "discovered", Lomov made his professional US stage debut with the Newton Symphony in Newton, Massachusetts in 1992. From 1992-1996, Lomov was a soloist with the Newton Symphony Orchestra as well as the New Hampshire Philharmonic.
Lomov has performed over 60 recitals in the eastern United States as well as Oklahoma. He now teaches young pianists in the Rhode Island and New England area. His students have included the pianists Marlon Daniels, Daniel Wnukowski, and Robert Laniewski.
Nicolai was a longtime member and regular organist, pianist and choir director at the Central Congregational Church in Attleboro Falls, MA.
He also advised students at the Sharon Music Academy in Sharon and had judged internal competitions.
Nicolai was a proud member of the Bristol Lodge A.F. & A.M. in North Attleboro.
In addition to his wife, he leaves his daughter: Anna Lomov of Westerly, Rhode Island and many extended family members and friends the world throughout.
There will be a public celebration of Nicolai's life at a later date.
Burial services will be privately held.
For additional information or to send the family a written expression of sympathy, please visit an online guest book at www.dyer-lakefuneralhome.com .
Arrangements are under the direction of the Dyer-Lake Funeral Home, 161 Commonwealth Avenue, Village of Attleboro Falls, North Attleborough. (508) 695-0200