Katia Tchemberdji

Katia Tchemberdji (actually Russian Екатерина Владимировна Чемберджи / Jekaterina Vladimirovna Tschemberdschi; born May 6, 1960 in Moscow ) is a Russian composer and pianist . She is the daughter of the journalist Vladimir Vladimirovich Posner and his first wife, the philologist and writer Valentina Nikolajewna Tchemberdji.

Life

Katia Tchemberdji was accepted into the Central Music School at the Moscow Conservatory at the age of seven . From 1978 she conducted her studies here in the subjects composition , music theory and piano a . a. continued with Nikolai Korndorf , Juri Cholopow and Sergei Balasanjan and passed all exams with distinction in 1984. Her diplomas in composition and music theory enabled her to teach from then on. From 1984 to 1990 she worked as a teacher at the Moscow Gnessin Music Academy . Tchemberdji has lived in Berlin since 1990 , where she continues teaching at several music schools. As a pianist and commissioned composer, she has participated in numerous international chamber music festivals a. a. participated in Finland and Switzerland .

Her artistic collaboration connects Tchemberdji with well-known musicians such as Eduard Brunner , Boris Pergamenschtschikow , her half-brother Alexander Melnikow and Natalia Gutman .

Katia Tchemberdji composed film scores for several Russian and German films. In 2007 she played a supporting role in The Visible and the Invisible by Rudolf Thome , for whom she also wrote the film scores for The Red Room , Rauchzeichen and Pink . In 2007 her children's opera Save Pluto! premiered with children from the music school "Paul Hindemith" Neukölln and the Ensemble Experiments under the direction of Gerhard Scherer .

Since 2005 Katia Tchemberdji has been playing with Mika Yonezawa (violin) and Kleif Carnarius (cello) in the Artenius Trio founded in 1997.

Works (selection)

• 1990: Sonata for clarinet and piano
• 1991: Heidelberg Trio , for clarinet, violin and piano
• 1991: In memoriam , for narrator, piano, horn, violin and cello based on poems by Anna Akhamatova
• 1995: Day and Night "Hommage à MC Escher" , for solo piano
• 1996: Labyrinth in memoriam Oleg Kagan , for 12 strings and solo cello
• 1998: Max and Moritz , opera for children in 2 acts based on Wilhelm Busch
• 2000: String Quartet No. 2 , after Rainer Maria Rilke
• 2003: Opposition , for ensemble
• 2003: Three archery dances , for cello and piano
• 2003: Ma'or , for solo clarinet
• 2006: Farewell songs , for four vocal soloists and chamber orchestra based on poems by Rilke and Apollonios
• 2007: Save Pluto! , Children's opera

Web links

• Official website of Katia Tchemberdji
• Katia Tchemberdji on the website of the Hamburg University of Music and Theater
• Biography and catalog raisonné in Sikorski
• Katia Tchemberdji in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• As Yekaterina Chemberdzhi in the Internet Movie Database (English) (English transcription)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CV