composer
Biography:
Sofia Gubaidulina, born on October 24, 1931 in Chistopol (Tatar Republic), finished her education at the Kazan Conservatory in 1954 (piano with Grigori Kogan and composition) and then continued her composition studies with Nikolai Pejko, an assistant of Dmitri Shostakovich, at the Moscow Conservatory until 1959 away. This was followed by an aspirantship with Vissarion Shebalin. Sofia Gubaidulina has been a freelance composer since 1963.
Since the beginning of the 1980s her works have quickly made their way into Western concert programmes, so that today the composer is one of the leading representatives of new music from the former Soviet Union. This is evidenced by the many orders from well-known institutions and the impressive number of CD recordings.
Sofia Gubaidulina, who has lived near Hamburg since 1992, is a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg, the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1999 she received the order ›Pour le mérite‹. Since 2001 she has been honorary professor at the Kazan Conservatory, and since 2005 also at the Beijing and Tianjin Conservatories.
She has received numerous prizes and awards: e.g. Prix de Monaco (1987), Premio Franco Abbiato (1991), Heidelberg Female Artists Prize (1991), Russian State Prize (1992), Ludwig Spohr Prize of the City of Braunschweig (1995), Japanese Imperial Prize ›Praemium Imperiale‹ (1998), Leonie Sonnings Music Prize (1999), Goethe Medal of the City of Weimar (2001), Moscow Silenzio Prize (2001), Polar Music Prize (2002), Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2002), European Culture Prize (2005), Russian Culture Prize »Triumph« (2007), Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (2007), European Church Music Prize Schwäbisch Gmünd (2009). In 2003 she was voted “Living Composer of the Year” at the Cannes Classical Awards.
Albums:
Chamber music with double bass:
