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Education

Igor Zubkovsky started playing cello at the Gnessin Music School

Gnessin State Musical College

The Gnessin State Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia...

Moscow

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and first appeared as a soloist with the Minsk State Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of twelve, performing Haydn C Major Cello Concerto.

In 1994, Zubkovsky graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Moscow Conservatory

The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...

where he studied cello with Natalia Shakhovskaya

Natalia Shakhovskaya

Natalia Shakhovskaya is a Russian cellist. She studied cello at the Gnessin School of Music and later at the Moscow Conservatory under the tutorship of S. Kosolupov...

, 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

Postgraduate education

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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

Baltimore

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, Maryland

Maryland

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where in 1999 he earned a Graduate Performance Diploma.

Competitions

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

Belgrade

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, Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

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, Second Prize at the International Cello Competition in Minsk

Minsk

- Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...

, Belarus

Belarus

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, and the Grand Prix at the First 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

Alexandre Tansman

Alexandre Tansman was a Polish-born composer and virtuoso pianist. He spent his early years in his native Poland, but lived in France for most of his life...

's Fantasie with Lodz Philharmonic under conductor Paweł Przytocki

Paweł Przytocki

Paweł Przytocki , is a Polish conductor of classical music.-Education:Przytocki studied at the Academy of Music in Kraków, graduating with distinction from the Faculty of Conducting under Professor Jerzy Katlewicz in 1985...

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In 1992-1997 Zubkovsky was a member of the critically acclaimed ensemble “Brahms Trio” in Moscow. With the group he won Second Prize at the International Chamber Music Competition in Trapani

Trapani

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, Sicily and First Prize at the Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition in Weimar

Weimar

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, Germany

Germany

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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 Minsk State Philharmonic Orchestra, the Voronezh State Symphony Orchestra, the Kishinev State Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra

Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra

The Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra is an orchestra in Serbia, regularly considered as one of the finest in the country. Its home base is in Belgrade.- History :...

, Lodz Philharmonic, University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra

Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra

The Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA.The Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra can be traced back to the early 1930s during the throes of the Great Depression. The orchestra gave its first concert at William Penn High School in Harrisburg on...

, and Altoona Symphony Orchestra. In addition to numerous appearances in Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

and the USA, he has performed in Belarus

Belarus

, Moldova

Moldova

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, Great Britain

Great Britain

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, Poland

Poland

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, Austria

Austria

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, Italy

Italy

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, Spain

Spain

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, Germany

Germany

, France

France

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, Finland

Finland

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, Australia

Australia

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, Turkey

Turkey

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and Taiwan

Taiwan

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Zubkovsky has collaborated with such prominent musicians as pianists Stephen Prutsman, Ann Schein, Rohan de Silva

Rohan de Silva

Rohan de Silva is a Sri Lankan pianist. De Silva studied at the Royal Academy of Music and The Juilliard School, working closely with violin pedagogue Dorothy DeLay. He has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships including a special prize as Best Accompanist at the 1990 Ninth International...

, Michael Endres

Michael Endres

Michael Endres is a German pianist.He was professor for piano from 1993 to 2004 at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Cologne, until 2009 at the Hochschule Hanns Eisler in Berlin—and since autumn 2009 has been professor for piano at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.-Early...

, Alexander Melnikov

Alexander Melnikov

Alexander Melnikov is a Russian pianist.Born in Moscow, Melnikov began studying music at age six at Moscow’s Central Music School. He continued at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Lev Naumov, graduating in 1997. Later he completed his post-graduate studies in Munich with Eliso Virsaladze...

, Olga Kern

Olga Kern

Olga Kern is a Russian classical pianist. Born as Olga Pushechnikova to a family of musicians with ties to Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, she later adopted her mother's maiden name professionally...

, Bernadene Blaha, Daniel del Pino, Judith Lynn Stillman and Pedja Muzijevic, clarinetists Evgeny Petrov and Anton Dressler, singers Marianna Busching and Danielle Talamantes, violinists Earl Carlyss, Odin Rathnam, Eugeny Bushkov, Emil Chudnovsky and Natasha Korsakova, violist Yuri Bashmet

Yuri Bashmet

Yuri Abramovich Bashmet is a Russian conductor and violist.Direct patrilineal descendant of Besht.-Biography:Yuri Bashmet was born on 24 January 1953 in Rostov-on-Don in the family of Abram Borisovich Bashmet and Maya Zinovyeva Bashmet . "Father's mother, Tsilya Efimovna, studied singing at the...

, and the members of the Borodin Quartet

Borodin Quartet

The Borodin Quartet is a string quartet that was founded in 1945 in the former Soviet Union. It is one of the world's longest lasting string quartets, marking its 60th anniversary season in 2005....

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He has appeared at the Merkin Concert Hall

Merkin Concert Hall

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in New York

New York

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

Moscow Conservatory

The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...

, the Belgrade Philharmonic Hall, the Hall of Columns of the Moscow Palace of Unions

House of the Unions

The House of the Unions or called "Palace of Unions" is the historical building in Moscow, Russia. It is situated on the corner of Bolshyaya Dmitrovka and Okhotny Ryad streets.-Origins:...

, National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art

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, Corcoran Gallery of Art

Corcoran Gallery of Art

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and Department of State

United States Department of State

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in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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. As a chamber musician, he also participated at the Schwetzingen Festival

Schwetzingen Festival

The Schwetzingen Festival is an early summer festival of opera and other classical music presented each year from May to early June in Schwetzingen, Germany....

, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Newport Music Festival

Newport Music Festival

Newport Music Festival is a classical music festival that takes place in Newport, Rhode Island.It was founded in 1969 as a summer season of the Metropolitan Opera. The outdoor venue was not conducive to classical music performance, and instead the grand rooms of the stately Newport mansions were...

and Lancaster Festival.

Works

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

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

and Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

, 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, the most recent with the Capital Piano Trio playing works of Mendelssohn

Mendelssohn

Mendelson is a Polish/German Jewish family name, meaning "son of Mendel", Mendel being a Yiddish diminutive of the Hebrew given name Menahem, meaning "consoling" or "one who consoles".Mendelssohn is the surname of a number of people:...

and Babajanian. Currently he is a member of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, a regular substitute cellist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is a professional American symphony orchestra based in Baltimore, Maryland.In September 2007, Maestra Marin Alsop led her inaugural concerts as the Orchestra’s twelfth music director, making her the first woman to head a major American orchestra.The BSO Board...

and performing extensively as a soloist and chamber musician.

Cello transcriptions and arrangements

Johannes Brahms, Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano, op. 120

Clarinet Sonatas (Brahms)

The Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120, Nos. 1 and 2 are a pair of works written for clarinet and piano by the Romantic composer Johannes Brahms. They were written in 1894 and are dedicated to the clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld. The sonatas stem from a period in Brahms’s life where he “discovered” the beauty...

Johannes Brahms, Andante from Piano Concerto No.2

Piano Concerto No. 2 (Brahms)

The Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83 by Johannes Brahms is a composition for solo piano with orchestral accompaniment. It is separated by a gap of 22 years from the composer's first piano concerto. Brahms began work on the piece in 1878 and completed it in 1881 while in Pressbaum near...

Ferenc Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody No.5

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 5

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 5, S.244/5, is the fifth in a set of 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies by composer Franz Liszt. It is in E Minor and is marked Lento, con duolo. The piece was given the nickname Héroïde-élégiaque by the composer himself...

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...

, Suite from the opera "Snow Maiden"

The Snow Maiden

The Snow Maiden: A Spring Fairy Tale is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed during 1880–1881. The Russian libretto, by the composer, is based on the like-named play by Alexander Ostrovsky .The first performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera took place at the...

Mikhail Glinka

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka , was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music...

, Sonata for viola and piano in D minor (incomplete) (1835)

Sergey Prokofiev, Suite from ballet "Cinderella"

Cinderella (Prokofiev)

Cinderella is a ballet, Op. 87, composed by Sergei Prokofiev to a scenario by Nikolai Volkov. It is one of his most popular and melodious compositions, and has inspired a great many choreographers since its inception. The piece was composed between 1940 and 1944. Part way through writing it he...

Handel-Halvorsen

Johan Halvorsen

Johan Halvorsen was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist.-Biography:Born in Drammen, Norway he was an accomplished violinist from a very early age and became a prominent figure in Norwegian musical life...

, 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)

Poulenc - Clarinet Sonata

Clarinet Sonata (Poulenc)

Francis Poulenc's Sonata for clarinet and piano dates from 1962 and is one of the last pieces he completed. The piece is dedicated to the memory of an old friend, the Swiss composer Arthur Honegger, who like Poulenc had belonged to the group of "Les Six." A typical performance takes about 13...

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....

, Märchenerzählungen for clarinet, cello and piano, Op. 132 (originally for clarinet, viola and piano)

Mikhail Glinka

Mikhail Glinka

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka , was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music...

, Trio Pathétique in D minor for viola, cello and piano (originally for clarinet, bassoon/cello and piano)

Reinhold Glière

Reinhold Glière

Reinhold Moritzevich Glière was a Russian and Soviet composer of German–Polish descent.- Biography :Glière was born in Kiev, Ukraine...

, Andante for piano, clarinet and cello
(originally Concerto for coloratura soprano and orchestra in F minor, Op. 82 (1943)

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