Anastasiya Bespalova () is a

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Biography

Bespalova is a graduate of the Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire where she studied music composition under Vladimir Kobekin. In 2003 she won the First Opus young composers competition in

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. She later won the

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's young composers competition for an

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based on a subject by

Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; ; (; () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the Grotesque#In literature, grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works "The Nose (Gogol short story), ...

with her one-act work ''

Shponka and His Aunt ''Shponka and His Aunt'' is an opera in one act by composer Anastasiya Bespalova. The opera uses a Russian libretto by which is based upon the story of the same name by Nikolai Gogol. The opera was commissioned by the Mariinsky Theatre along wit ...

''. The opera premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre on 21 June 2009. Bespalova's works have also been performed at several music festivals including the New Music Days Festival in Yekaterinburg. Several of her works have been performed in concert at the Youth Academies of Russia, including the symphonic work ''Secrets of a Wild Wood'', the string quartet ''A Clockwork Orange'', and her choral work with saxophone and piano, ''A Hymn to the Sun''.

References

Biography of Anastasiya Bespalova at the Mariinsky Theatre
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