Валентина Жубинская

VALENTINA ZHUBINSKAYA (1926-2013, UKRAINE) Born in Kharkov. She studied composition with Vyachaslav Barabashov at the Kharkov Conservatory and the piano with Grigori Ginsburg at the Moscow Conservatory. She toured as a concert pianist. Most of her compositions are for solo piano. She recorded her own piano concerto and piano music by Honegger and Poulenc Her memorial page states: Valentina Yanovna was not only an excellent teacher and composer. She managed to express herself as an amazing performer. Here is what L.Grigoryev and Y.Platek wrote about her in the book “Modern Pianists” (Moscow, “Soviet Composer”, 1990): “Recently Moscow concerts of Valentina Zhubinsky are usually held in the hall of the Gnesins Institute. This is quite natural: the pianist has long been leading a piano class in a famous educational institution. Her performances attract students with a variety and non-screen programs. It may be recalled that in 1971 she introduced music lovers to the plays of A. Onegger, and later often and persistently turned to the works of Spanish composers - de Falla, Albeniz, Granados. Her performance includes works by Soviet authors, N. Myaskovsky, R. Shchedrin, V. Zolotarev and others. Romantic inclinations of the pianist are reflected in her commitment to the virtuoso plays of Liszt, Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Gershwin. She, as noted by D. Bashkirov, “natural musicality and natural pianism (everything turns out as if by itself), temperament, rich intuition combined with a clear thoughtfulness of plans. To this is added the artistically free handling of the material, an excellent sense of the scene. ” Zhubinsky’s programs organically fit her own compositions. Back in 1955, she “introduced herself” to Muscovites as the author and performer of the Piano Concerto. It was then that she completed the postgraduate course of the Moscow Conservatory under the direction of G. R. Ginzburg. And she came to Moscow from Kharkov, where she graduated from the conservatory in the piano class M. G. Pilstrom (1949), and then in composition with V. A. Barabashova (1950). Since then, Valentina Zhubinskaya has been combining composing with concert performances. “Mutually complementing each other,” writes I. Belorusets, “these different artistic manifestations allow the actress to achieve impressive achievements, giving originality to her performing handwriting.” In addition to teaching, Valentina Yanovna wrote musical works, many of which are remembered by our older readers. She wrote compositions for pianoforte with an orchestra - a concert (1950); for piano - Sonata (1948), Children's Album (1954), 4 Etudes, Lullaby and Humoresque (1946), 8 Pieces (1960), Russian Variations (1963), 3 Improvisations (1963), 15 Pieces (1969), collection. children's plays (1960); for pop orchestras - suite (1957), plays; for voice and piano - cycles: to the words of Bulgarian poets (1962), 10 musical sketches (1964), the vocal cycle Seasons (for children, 1959), a collection of children's songs (1971), songs; for the choir - the Good Bread cycle (1972). Since 1955 Zhubinskaya - a member of the Union of Composers of the USSR. Zhubinskaya was awarded many awards as the USSR and Russia. For achievements in the field of art by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of June 17, 1999 N 786 “On awarding state awards of the Russian Federation”, Valentina Yanovna was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.[\i]