Alla Pavlova

Alla Pavlova ( Ukrainian Алла Павлова Alla Pawlowa ; born July 13, 1952 in Vinnytsia , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Russian composer of Ukrainian origin. She lives in Brooklyn , New York City .

biography

Life in the Soviet Union

In 1961, Pavlova's family moved to Moscow , where they studied music with Armen Shakhbagyan at the Gnessin Institute . Shakhbagyan, a distinguished composer in the 1970s who had a special relationship with the writings and poems of Anna Andreevna Akhmatova , was a major influence on Pavlova's productions up until the 1990s.

After completing her studies and obtaining a master’s degree, Pavlova moved to Bulgaria in 1983 to the Sofia National Opera and Ballet Theater , where she worked for the Bulgarian Composers Association. In 1986 she returned to the Soviet Union and worked on the commission of the Russian Music Society before she left for the USA in 1990 and took up residence in New York .

Living in the USA

Art songs and chamber music

After arriving in New York, Pavlova put together a collection of simple songs , inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales , with which her daughter Irene could practice playing the piano. During the first half of the 1990s, her compositions alternated between arranging art songs and small works for piano . In 1994 Pavlova composed her first major work with the Symphony nº. 1 Farewell Russia , with which she expressed her melancholy feelings and pain because of her flight from home. The composition is divided into a movement for an ensemble for two violins , a cello , a piano, a flute and a piccolo , which was set to music by soloists of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra just two days after its appearance in Russia .

It took four more years until Pavlova composed her four-minute symphony for piano and violins on the occasion of the death of her teacher Shakhbagyan. It was followed in 1998 by her Elegy Symphony nº. 2 for the New Millennium , which was possibly her ambitious composition and was set to music four years later by Vladimir Ivanovich Fedosejew as conductor on CD. Fedosejew took the interests of Pavlova in Russia against resistance that had established itself against Pavlova and also made sure that her Fourth Symphony was set to music .

Pavlova then turned back to the arrangement of the art songs, including the little piece Miss me ... but let me go at the beginning of September 2001 and saw it, as Cristóbal Halffter had done with his composition Adagio en forma de Rondó , in the context of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 . At that time, she lived not very far from Ground Zero and was extremely shocked by this event. She dedicated her piece to the victims of the attack.

Pavlova is a member of New York Women Composers, Inc.

Orchestral works

Pavlova increased her prestige with her composition of the second symphony; it gave her the opportunity to devote herself to orchestral compositions instead of chamber music. In 2000 she continued this project with the monumental composition of the Symphony nº. 3 into action. Inspired by the monument to Jeanne d'Arc in New York, the work convinces with its high expressiveness and as one of her masterpieces. But still unsatisfied, she continued to develop the symphony and added a guitar to the work as a musical splash of color.

Pavlova spent the next two years working on her first ballet composition, which was to bring a biblical story by Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin called Sulamith on the stage. Other compositions by Pavlov are her Fifth Symphony from 2006, her Sixth Symphony from 2008 and the Thumbelina Ballet Suite from 2009, all of which have been published on CD by Naxos .

Compositions

Pavlova's compositions are inspired by the great Russian composers of the 20th century such as Prokofiev , Shostakovich , Rachmaninov etc. and are characterized by the roots of their origins.

• "Lullaby for Irene" for piano, violin (or flute) and vibraphone (1972)
• Two Songs to Verses by Anna Andrejewna Achmatowa for soprano and piano (1974)
• "We Are the Love" to verses by Alla Pavlova for (mezzo-) soprano and piano quartet (1974)
• "The Dream" to verses by Anna Akhmatova for soprano and piano (1979)
• Impressions after Fairy-Tales by HC Andersen for piano (1990)
• Winter Morning to Verses by Alexander Pushkin for soprano, cello and flute (1993)
• Prelude for piano "For My Mother" (1994)
• "Summer Pictures for piano (1994)
• Symphony No. 1 "Farewell, Russia" for chamber orchestra (1994)
• The Old New York Nostalgia Suite for piano (1995)
• "Miss Me ... But Let Me Go" for violin, cello, two guitars and mezzo-soprano (1997)
• "I Loved You", masterpieces of Russian poetry for mezzo-soprano, violin and piano (1998)
• Elegy for piano and string orchestra (1998)
• Symphony No. 2 "For the New Millennium" (1998)
• The Old New York Nostalgia Suite for string orchestra, percussion, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone and trumpet (1998)
• Symphony No. 3 (2000)
• Symphony No. 4 (2002)
• Monologue for violin and string orchestra (2002)
• Suite from "Sulamith" (2003)
• "Sulamith", ballet (2003-2005)
• Symphony No. 5 (2006)
• Symphony No. 6 (2008)
• Suite from "Thumbelina" (2008-2009)
• Symphony No. 7 (2011)
• Symphony No. 8 (2011)
• Concertino for violin, piano and string orchestra (2012)
• "Night Music" for violin and strings (2014)

Web links

• Alla Pavlova near Naxos
• Alla Pavlova homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Composition of Farewell, Russia!
2. ↑ Alla Pavlova. In: Member Profiles. New York Women Composers, Inc., accessed April 18, 2017 .