Yekaterina Chemberdzhi (russian: Екатерина Владимировна Чемберджи́ ), also Katia Tchemberdji (nickname) or Jekaterina Wladimirowna Tschemberdschi (German form) (born 6 May 1960), is a Russian pianist and composer.

Life and career

The daughter of Vladimir Posner and Valentina Chemberdzhi and granddaughter of the composers Zara Levina and Nikolai Chemberdzhi, Katia Chemberdzhi was born in Moscow and began her study of music at age 7. In 1978 she studied composition and piano at the Moscow Conservatory with

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and

Yuri Kholopov Yuri Nikolaevich Kholopov (russian: link=no, Ю́рий Никола́евич Холóпов, ; August 14, 1932, Ryazan – April 24, 2003, Moscow) was a Russian musicologist and educator. Biography After graduating from Ryazan Music Regional C ...

. After ending her studies, Chemberdzhi took a position from 1984-90 teaching at the Moscow Gnessin State Musical College. In 1990 she moved to West Berlin. She has been active in international festivals as a pianist and as a composer. Her compositions were commissioned by such festivals as Berliner Festspiele, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Tage Neuer Musik Zürich, and performed and commissioned by such soloists and ensembles as The Hilliard Ensamble, Charoun Ensemble, Sibelius Quartet, Staats- und Domchor Berlin, Singakademie zu Berlin, Münchner Kammerorchester, Boris Pergamenschikow, Natalia Gutman, Eduard Brunner, Charles Neidich etc. She has composed film music for several Russian and German films.

Works

Selected works include: *1990: ''Sonate'' for clarinet and piano *1991: ''Heidelberg Trio'', for clarinet, violin and piano *1991: ''In memoriam'', for storyteller, piano, horn, violin and cello after poems by Anna Akhmatova *1991: ''In Namen Amadeus'', for viola, clarinet, piano and tape *1995: ''Day and night: Hommage à

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'', for solo piano *1996: ''Labyrinth'' in memoriam

Oleg Kagan Oleg Moiseyevich Kagan (Russian: Оле́г Моисе́евич Кага́н; 22 November 1946 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russian SFSR – 15 July 1990, Munich, West Germany) was a Soviet violinist, known for his chamber collaborations with such musicia ...

, for string orchestra (3 quartets) and solo cello *1998: ''Max and Moritz'', chamber opera after

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*2000: ''String Quartet No. 2'', after

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*2003: ''Opposition'', for ensemble *2003: ''Three Bow Dances'', for cello and piano *2003: ''Ma´or'', for solo clarinet *2006: ''Abschiedsgesänge'', for four vocal soloists and chamber orchestra after poems of Rainer Maria Rilke and Apollonius Rhodius *2007: ''Rettet Pluto!'', Kinderoper *2009: ''Die Fragen des Bartholomäus'', for five solo singers, choir, organ and orchestra

Selected Recordings

Chamber Works

References

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