Luba Edlina

Luba Edlina-Dubinski (Любовь Едлина; * 1930 in Charkow , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union ) is a Russian pianist and music teacher .

Edlina started playing the piano at the age of five, performed publicly for the first time at the age of nine and was accepted at the Moscow Conservatory at the age of 17 , where Jakow Flier was her teacher. At the conservatory she met her future husband Rostislaw Dubinski , who was a founding member of the Borodin Quartet and who aroused her interest in chamber music . For twenty years she was a regular partner of the Borodin Quartet.

In 1976 Edlina and her husband left the Soviet Union and first went to Holland. There she taught at the Rotterdam Conservatory , formed a duo with her husband, and with this and cellist Yuli Turovsky , the Borodin Trio . Over the next twenty years she performed worldwide with both ensembles and recorded numerous works of literature for piano trio and piano-violin and piano-cello duo. As a soloist she recorded the intermezzi by Johannes Brahms and the songs without words by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . Since 1981 she has been professor of piano at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Bloomington .

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• Indiana Public Media - Art & Music, March 1, 2011 - Luba Edlina-Dubinsky: WFIU's March Artist Of The Month
• Indiana University Bloomington - Jacobs School of Music - Luba Edlina-Dubinsky

Web links

• Luba Edlina at Discogs (English)