Irina Dubkova Explained

Irina Dubkova (Russian: link=no|Дубкова Ирина Анатольевна) is a Russian composer,[1] music teacher and an associate professor at the Moscow Conservatory.[2]

Life

Irina Dubkova was born in Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg).

She began composing at the age of five. After finishing music college as a pianist in 1982, she completed the undergraduate course as a composer. She continued the same way her post-graduate studies with professor Roman Ledenyov and in musicology with Yuri Kholopov until 1987.

Dubkova has participated in many competitions and festivals. In 1980 she was the winner at the Moscow International Young Composer's Competition, with Four Romances to the verses of Sergei Yesenin for baritone and piano; in 1982 she won again with her Symphony No. 1 and in 1985 with a vocal cycle for children. In 1987 her «Allegro» for Symphony Orchestra was awarded.

From 1982 to 1985 Dubkova worked as a music editor at the USSR State Radio and TV Company. In 1984 she became a member of the Russian Composers' Union, the International Music Society «Amadeus» and the Russian Association for Piano Duets (Russian Music Society).

Teaching

From 1996, Dubkova has been teaching at the Composition Department of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. In 2007 she became an associated professor.

Works

Dubkova's compositions have been performed regularly at the annual festivals «Earino Musical Festival», «The Universe of Sound», «Nihon-no Kokoro» and «Moscow Meetings».

In 1980, when she was still a student of the Moscow Conservatory, she began participating at an annual music festival «Moscow Autumn». Since that time a lot of her new compositions got their first performances during this festival.

Dubkova's symphony, chamber and choral music have been heard in the entire Russia and in the whole world. Her music was played in Berlin, Hameln, Basel, Nice, Paris, Vienna, Gent, Helsinki, Boston, Iowa, Thessalonica, Tilburg, Goirle, Tallinn, Tartu, Kiev, St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Bryansk, Novgorod, Kaluga, Yaroslavl, Ulan-Ude, Smolensk, Pskov, Vitebsk, and Moscow.

She has worked with such famous conductors as Veronika Dudarova, Vladimir Pon'kin, Martyn Nersesian, Dimitri Orlov, Stanislav Dyachenko and Iohannes Hemberg (Germany).

Among foreign musicians who Dubkova has worked and still maintains contacts with are Elen Metlov-Grabovska (France), Kurt Widmer (Switzerland), John Muriello (USA), David Gompper (USA), Katherine Eberly Fink (USA), Yun Pai Hsu (Taiwan), Vladimir Zhmurko (Israel), Anna Chatzisimeonidou (Greece), Peep Lassmann (Estonia), Regina Himmelbauer (Austria) and others. Dubkova also plays in different concerts as a pianist.

For symphony orchestra

For theatre

Chamber music

For piano

For organ

For choir

Vocal compositions

For children

Discography

From 1980 she has much recorded with the State Radio and TV Company as a pianist. She also released two CDs of her own compositions.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Taruskin, Richard. Richard Taruskin. On Russian Music. 2008. 35. Where is Russia's New Music?: Iowa, That's Where. 380–385. University of California Press. 978-0-520-94280-6. 10.1525/california/9780520249790.003.0036.
  2. Web site: Irina Dubkova. 2021-05-24. Moscow Conservatory.

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