Zhanna Yuhymivna Kolodub (*1 January 1930
Vinnytsia
Vinnytsia ( ; , ) is a city in west-central Ukraine, located on the banks of the Southern Bug. It serves as the administrative centre, administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast. It is the largest city in the historic region of Podillia. It also s ...
) is a celebrated
Ukrainian composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
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and teacher.
Biography
Zhanna
nglish: JeanneVinnytsia, later Kolodub, was born in 1930 into a family of musicians in the city of Vinnytsia. She studied violin and piano at Kyiv's Gliere School of Music, graduating in 1949. In 1954 she graduated from the
Kyiv Conservatory
The Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music (), formerly Kyiv Conservatory, is a national music tertiary academy in Kyiv, Ukraine. Its courses include postgraduate education.
History
The Kyiv Conservatory was founded on 3 November 1913 at ...
as a master (docent). She studied piano with Konstantin Mikhailov. When she was 24 she began to pursue composition as a vocation. Her composition teachers were Professor Liatoshinsky and the man who was to become her husband, Levko Kolodub (1930–2019).
At the conservatory was became a lecturer in 1952, then associate professor (1985) and finally professor (1997). In 1995 the conservatory became the
Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music
The Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music (), formerly Kyiv Conservatory, is a national music tertiary academy in Kyiv, Ukraine. Its courses include postgraduate education.
History
The Kyiv Conservatory was founded on 3 November 1913 at ...
.
[A. Mukha, I. Sikorska, "Kolodub Zhanna Yukhimivna,]
Ukrainian Music Encyclopedia
T. 2, p. 499.
In 1996, she was named an Honored Worker of Arts of Ukraine. She is the Laureate of the Mykola Lysenko Prize (2002), the Victor Kosenko Prize, the International Competition of Works for Great Instruments (Rivne), and the International Academic Rating of Popularity and Quality "Golden Fortune" (2002) She is a member of the
National Union of Composers of Ukraine
The National Union of Composers of Ukraine (ukr: ''Національна спілка композиторів України'') is a public organization that unites Ukrainian composers and musicologists working in academic music. Potential membe ...
.
On March 5, 2009, the title
People's Artist of Ukraine
People's Artist of Ukraine () is an honorary title awarded by the government of Ukraine. It is the highest title awarded to outstanding performing artists whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts, inc ...
was bestowed on Kolodub for a significant personal contribution to the socio-economic and cultural development of Ukraine, active public activity, long-term conscientious work and on the occasion of the International Women's Day on March 8.
Kolodub's principal compositions are the ballets ''Snow Queen'' and ''Adventures of Vesnianka'', ''Lyrical Scenes of Kiev'' for symphonic orchestra, ''Pictures of Nature'' for chamber orchestra, two sinfoniettas and a partita for string orchestra, several albums for piano, a wind quartet and other wind chamber works. Vocal compositions include international songs, choral and stage music, musicals, and scores for movies.
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Selected works
* ''Children's Album'': Early intermediate Piano Solos. Mississauga, Ont.: F. Harris Music, 1997.
* ''Children's Games : 13 pieces for Piano''. NY: Associated Music Publisher, 1977.
* ''Concertino for oboe and piano''. Pullman, WA: Vivace Press, 1995.
* ''Dances of the People : Piano Works from Ukraine'', for solo piano. Pullman, WA: Vivace Press, 1996.
* ''Kontsert dli︠a︡ fortepiano ta orkestru. Klavir''. Kyiv: Muzychna Ukraïna, 1974.
* ''Märchenhafte Volkslieder''. Oberhausen: Sternscher Musikverlag, 2001.
* ''Nocturne & Poem'' for flute and piano. Basel: Terem Music, 2021.
* ''Poema'', for solo organ. Pullman, WA: Vivace Press, 1997.
* ''Pryhody divchynky vesni︠a︡nky : balet''. Kyiv: Muzychna Ukraïna, 1972.
* ''Sимфоніета для смрунногооркесмру'' / Symfonieta dli︠a︡ strunnogo orkestru (Score). Kiiv: МузичнаУкраіна, 1971.
* ''Streit : für zwei Flöten''. Oberhausen: Int. Sternscher Musikverlag, 2000.
* ''Suite für Glockenspiel und Klavier''. Oberhausen: Int. Sternscher Musikverlag, 2005
* ''Three Fragments'', for solo oboe. Edited by Cynthia Green Libby. Vivace Press, 2005.
* ''Toccata-Poem'' for solo piano. St. Louis, MO: Vivace Press, 2005.
* ''Ukrainian Suite'' for flute, oboe, clarinet (B♭& A), horn in F & bassoon.
trathmashie Phylloscopus Publications, 2001
* ''Vokalʹni tvory = Vokalʹnye proizvedenii︠a︡''. Kyiv: Muzychna Ukraïna, 1980.
Sources
Further reading
* Алексеева С. Наша Жанна Колодуб
'Our Zhanna Kolodub'' // Розповіді про музику
tories About Music— К., 1980.
* Клин В
lyn, B Фортепіанні концерти
iano Concerts// Музика
usic— 1974.— No. 3.
* Черкашина-Губаренко М.
herkashina-Gubarenko, M.Творчі дебюти Жанни Колодуб
'Creative Debuts of Zhanna Kolodub'.— К., 1999.
* Libby, Cynthia Green. "Profile in Courage: Ukrainian Composer Zhanna Kolodub.” ''IAWM Journal'' 21, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 27–30.
* Муха, Антон. Композитори України та української діаспори.
omposers of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Diaspora К., 2004.
* Mukha, A, I. Sikorska. "Kolodub Zhanna Yukhimivna." I
Ukrainian Music Encyclopedia T. 2, pp. 498–500
* Сулім, Римма
ulim, Rymma Композитор Жанна Колодуб: сторінки життя і творчості
omposer Zhanna Kolodub: Pages of Life and Creativity Суми : Еллада
umy: Hellas 2017. — 619 с.,
0арк. іл. : табл., портр.
able, Portrait 22 см. — Бібліогр.
ibliogr с. 554—586 (335 назв) та в підрядк. прим. — Бібліогр
ibliogr творів Ж. Колодуб: с. 587–600. — 300 пр. —
* Sulim, Rymma. "Stylistic and dramaturgic peculiarities of Concertino for oboe and chamber orchestra of Zhanna Kolodub." ''Bulletin of the National Academy of Management of Culture and Arts'' (Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв), December 5, 2017. Online
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Filmography
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Ukrainian composers
Ukrainian women composers
1930 births
Living people
Kyiv Conservatory alumni