Ludmila Yurina

Ludmila Yurina (born 16 January 1962) is a Ukrainian pianist and composer.
Biography.
Ludmila Yurina was born in Uzyn, Ukraine, and graduated from Kiev Music College as a pianist in 1981 and from Kiev State P.I.Tchaikovsky Conservatoire as a composer in 1990, completing her post-graduate studies there in 1998.
She attended workshops with eminent musicians P-H. Dittrich, Irvine Arditti, H. Zapf, G. Stäbler, J. Durand at the Rheinsberg Music Academy as well as with Helmut Lachenmann and Wolfgang Rihm in Dresden.
In 1990–92, she was the Music Director of the theatre studios "Kolo" and "ARS" in Kiev. Since 1993, she has been a member and a coordinator of the Organizing Committee of the International Youth Music Forum in Kiev. In 1997 she was the Artistic Director of the "Meta-Art" Ukrainian Contemporary Art Festival in Kiev.
Since 1995, she has worked as Associate Professor of Department of composition at the National Music Academy of Ukraine specialising in composition and orchestration. She was an invited composer at the flute master-course at the Rheinsberg Music Academy in 1999, was invited to give a lecture about contemporary Ukrainian music there in 1999, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart in 2006, to Texas Christian University in 2008 and 2011, and to the City University New-York Graduate Center in 2020.
Yurina's creative residences:
In 2010 she got a grant from the Fulbright Foundation for scholarship in Stanford University, CCRMA (USA).
In 1999 her name was included in the reference book "Who Is Who" (Delaware, USA).
She participated in numerous international festivals; her works have been performed in Ukraine, Russia, Germany, France, USA, Italy, Finland, Estonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, etc. She has actively collaborated with such well-known German performers as pianist S. Eder, cellist M. Lorenz, trombonist Dirk Amrein, C. Levine, Sinfonietta Dresden, New music ensemble XelmYa, Ensemble Timbre Actuel (Germany). Her scores also have been performed by MAVerick ensemble, Symphony orchestra of Northwestern University, Trio Ravus, Edo Frenkel, Laura Ospina (USA), Borealis Brass (Canada), Pierre-Stephane Meuge (France), Ivo Nilsson (Sweden), Orchestra of Ukrainian Television and Broadcasting company, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Kyiv Camerata, the new-music ensemble Ricochet, the percussion ensemble ARS NOVA, TanzLaboratorium Dance Company, Duo Violoncelissimo, the new-music ensemble Sed Contra, pianist Eugene Gromov (Ukraine).
Recordings of her music were produced on the CD "Two Days and Two Nights of New Music: Festivals 1998–2000" and by Radio Deutsche Welle (Germany), Ukrainian Independent Radio (Chicago, USA), WPRB (Princeton, USA), Canadian broadcasting (Edmonton) and the Ukrainian National TV and Radio Company. Her works are published by Muzychna Ukrajina Publishing House (Ukraine), Frederic Harris Music Publishing (Canada), Furore Verlag, Certosa Verlag (Germany), TEM Taukay Edition (Italy), Terem-music Verlag (Switzerland) and Donemus (Netherlands) .
She is a Founder and Chairman of the Association "Women in Music" Ukraine (since 2002), member of the Honourable Committee of the (Italy), member of the Ukrainian Composers' Union.
Ludmila Yurina is an organiser and co-director of the three festivals of contemporary Ukrainian music in USA - Fort-Worth- 2008, 2012 and of Ukrainian contemporary music festival in New-York-2020 ).
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