Igor Zubkovsky (born 10 March 1971) is a Russian cellist.

Music career

Education

Igor Zubkovsky started playing cello at the Gnessin Music School in

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and first appeared as a soloist with th
Minsk State Philharmonic Orchestra
at the age of twelve, performing Haydn C Major Cello Concerto. In 1994, Zubkovsky graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he studied cello with Natalia Shakhovskaya, the First Prize Winner and a Gold Medalist of the 1962 Tchaikovsky Competition, and chamber music with Alexander Bonduriansky. He then went on to earn a postgraduate degree which he completed in 1997. With a remarkable record of performances, awards and academic distinctions, he was awarded a full scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland where in 1999 he earned
Graduate Performance Diploma

Competitions

Zubkovsky won top prizes at the several international competitions, including Diploma at th
International Jeunesses Musicales Competition
in

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, Yugoslavia, Second Prize at the International Cello Competition in

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, Belarus, and the Grand Prix at the Firs
Tansman International Competition of Musical Personalities
in Łódź, Poland. As part of the prize, he recorded a CD on DUX label and was invited to perform Alexandre Tansman's Fantasie wit
Lodz Philharmonic
under conductor Paweł Przytocki. In 1992-1997 Zubkovsky was a member of the critically acclaimed ensemble Brahms Trio in Moscow. With the group he won Second Prize at th
International Chamber Music Competition
in Trapani, Sicily and First Prize at th
Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition
in Weimar, Germany.

Performances

Igor Zubkovsky has an active concert life, playing solo and chamber music recitals and performing as a soloist with orchestras. He has performed with such orchestras as the Belarusian State Philharmonic, the Voronezh State Symphony Orchestra, the Kishinev State Symphony Orchestra
Moscow Conservatory Symphony Orchestra
Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Lodz Philharmonic, Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Altoona Symphony Orchestra, and West Chester University Symphony Orchestra. In addition to numerous appearances in

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and the

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, he has performed in Belarus, Moldova, Great Britain,

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and Taiwan. Zubkovsky has collaborated with such prominent musicians as pianists Stephen Prutsman, Ann Schein, Rohan de Silva, Michael Endres, Alexander Melnikov, Olga Kern, Bernadene Blaha, Daniel del Pino, Judith Lynn Stillman and Pedja Muzijevic, clarinetists Evgeny Petrov an
Anton Dressler
singers Marianna Busching and Danielle Talamantes, violinists Earl Carlyss of Juilliard String Quartet, Odin Rathnam, Eugeny Bushkov, Emil Chudnovsky and Natasha Korsakova, violist Yuri Bashmet, and the members of the Borodin Quartet. He has appeared at the Weill Recital Hall and Merkin Concert Hall in

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, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Bolshoi and Maly Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Kolarac Hall in

, the Hall of Columns of the Moscow Palace of Unions, National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art and Department of State in Washington, D.C. As a chamber musician, he also participated at the Schwetzingen Festival, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Newport Music Festival and Lancaster Festival.

Works

Zubkovsky's repertoire is broad and versatile. It ranges across various periods and styles: music of the

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and

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, original music for cello from the 19th and early 20th centuries, and music of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as compositions for cello with orchestra and chamber music. Zubkovsky has been recorded on numerous CDs - with th
Fam Trio
(playing works of Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms), with th
Capital Trio
( Mendelssohn and Babajanian). He is a tenured member of th
Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra
and the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, and performing extensively as a soloist and chamber musician.

Cello transcriptions and arrangements

Johannes Brahms, Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano, op. 120 Johannes Brahms, Andante from Piano Concerto No.2 Franz von Suppé,Overture to "Poet and Peasant" Ferenc Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody No.5 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Suite from the opera "Snow Maiden" Mikhail Glinka, Sonata for viola and piano in D minor (incomplete) (1835) Sergey Prokofiev, Suite from ballet "Cinderella" Handel- Halvorsen, Sarabande con Variazioni in G minor on a Theme by George Frideric Handel for violin and cello (1897) (based on the original version for violin and viola) Francis Poulenc Robert Schumann, '' Märchenerzählungen'' for clarinet, cello and piano, Op. 132 (originally for clarinet, viola and piano) Johannes Brahms, Two Songs, for contralto, cello and piano, Op. 91 (originally for contralto, viola and piano) Mikhail Glinka, Trio Pathétique in D minor for viola, cello and piano (originally for clarinet, bassoon/cello and piano) Reinhold Glière, Andante for piano, clarinet and cello (originally Concerto for coloratura soprano and orchestra in F minor, Op. 82 (1943)

Arrangements for string trio

Georges Bizet, Prelude (from '' Les pêcheurs de perles'') Georges Bizet, Romance de Nadir 'Je crois entendre encore' (from '' Les pêcheurs de perles'') Léo Delibes, Sous le dôme épais (from '' Lakmé'') Giuseppe Verdi, Libiamo ne' lieti calici (from '' La traviata'')

Family

Igor's father is – Soviet and Russian composer, pianist.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zubkovsky, Igor Russian classical cellists 1971 births Living people Russian emigrants to the United States Russian cellists Musicians from Moscow American classical cellists Contemporary classical music performers Moscow Conservatory alumni Peabody Institute alumni