Rosa Vladimirovna Tamarkina (Russian: Ро́за Влади́мировна Тама́ркина) (23 March 1920 – 5 August 1950) was a Soviet pianist who won second prize in the III International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (1937).

[7] Its successful beginning was noted in Pravda: “…an absolutely unforgettable impression is left by the play of fourteen-year-old pianist Rosa Tamarkina, student of Professor Goldenweiser.

10 in her interpretation is a musical event…”[8] Regardless of whether she would play Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff or especially Chopin, her grasp of the work was apt, full of noble simplicity, charm and natural poetry.

She was selected as the youngest member of the Soviet team to compete in the III International Chopin Piano Competition,[9] held in Warsaw in 21 February – 12 March 1937.

[…] Sixteen years and already such an excellent technique, complexity and ease.” Neuhaus wrote: "Rosa Tamarkina made a real sensation on the competition – not merely because of her age.

Backhaus shouted to me: "This is marvelous" "[12] In 1946, Tamarkina started teaching at the Moscow Conservatory, which greatly limited the number of her concert appearances.