Valentine Yanovna Zhubinskaya (17 May 1926 – 2013) was born in

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Kharkiv Conservatory Kharkiv National University of Arts named after I. P. Kotlyarevsky (or Kharkiv Conservatory or Kharkiv National I. P. Kotlyarevsky University of Arts) is the leading music and drama institution of higher education in Ukraine. The university train ...

. She graduated with distinction in 1949 and did postgraduate studies in Moscow, becoming a lecturer on the piano at

Gnessin State Musical College The Gnessin State Musical College (russian: link=no, Государственный музыкальный колледж имени Гнесиных) and Gnesins Russian Academy of Music (russian: Российская академия музык� ...

in 1961.

Compositions

Her compositions include:

Chamber

*Romance and Serenade (violin and piano; 1946)

Orchestra

*Piano Concerto (1950)

Piano

*Children's Album (12 pieces; 1946) *Collection of Children's Pieces (1960) *Eight Pieces (1960) *Fifteen Pieces (1969) *Four Etudes (1946) *Lullaby and Humoresque (1946) *Romance *Russian Variations (1963) *Sonata (1948) *Song and Waltz (1946) *Three Improvisations (1963) *Waltz (1948)

Vocal

*Children's Songs (1971) *Cycle of Works by Bulgarian Poets (1962) *Dobruy Khleb Cycle (chorus; 1972) *Molodezhnaya (Malykhin; voice and piano; 1968) *Pesnya o Taimyre (M. Arons; voice and piano; 1947) *Razvernis Garmonika (A. Prokofiev; voice and piano; 1947) *Two Ukrainian Folk Songs (a capella chorus; 1948) *Vremena Goda Cycle for Children (voice and piano; 1959)

References

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