GAZIZA ZHUBANOVA - KAZAKHSTAN
BORN 02 DECEMBER
Gaziza Akhmetovna Zhubanova was the first Kazakh female composer.
Gaziza Zhubanova was born 2 December 1928 (some sources state 1927) in a village in the Jurun District, Aktyubinsk. Zhubanova attended school in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, and graduated with honors. She was the daughter of Akhmet Zhubanov, a university educated musician, and grew up in a musical environment.
In 1945 Gaziza Zhubanova began studying at Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow. After completing her studies there, she studied composition with Yuri Shaporin, at the Moscow Conservatoire. After graduating in 1954, she took additional studies in composition and then in 1957 began a career as a composer.
In 1954, she participated in the Seventh Plenary Meeting of the Kazakh Union of Composers. Gaziza Zhubanova has been Chairman of Kazakh Union of Composers, a member of the board of the USSR Union of Composers and Deputy to the Alma-Ata City Soviet. She often works with the Kazakh Song and Dance Company.
Gaziza Zhubanova uses subjects and images from the Kazakh history and folklore. She has composed in different forms, including piano, violin, voice, chorus, string quartet and popular songs.
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Melody by Gaziza Zhubanova
GALINA GRIGORJEVA - UKRAINE
BORN 02 DECEMBER
BORN 02 DECEMBER
Galina Grigorjeva is an ukrainian composer and Member of the Estonian Composers’ Union since 1994.
Born in Crimea, Ukraine, Galina Grigorjeva studied at the Simferopol Music School and Odessa Conservatoire. In 1991, she graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatoire under Prof. Yuri Falik and was engaged in postgraduate studies with Lepo Sumera at the Estonian Academy of Music 1994–1998. Galina Grigorjeva is appointed Composer-in-Residence at the NYYD Ensemble for the season 2006/2007. Now she works as a freelance composer.
The output of Galina Grigorjeva has deserved appreciation for its remarkably subtle and animated melodic style. Her music is tightly linked to Slavonic sacred music as well as early European polyphony. Grigorjeva "orchestrates" polyphony with remarkable skill and grace, creating meaningful and beautiful harmonic flickers amidst the fluid texture. She pays utmost attention to the expressiveness and significance of each interval and intonation. There is a lot of air and space for breathing in her music.
Music of Galina Grigorjeva has been performed in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Germany, France, USA etc. Galina Grigorjeva was awarded The Heino Eller Music Prize in 2003 and the Annual Prize of the Endowment for Music of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia in 2004 and 2013. In 2014, Grigorjeva was ascribed the The Order of the White Star Fourth Class. Grigorjeva's author CD "In Paradisum" was awarded the Estonian Music Prize in the category of Classical album in 2015.
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Moliyva by Galina Grigorjeva
Moliyva by Galina Grigorjeva
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