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The famous Russian-Jewish-American composer Alexander Zhurbin, born in Tashkent/Uzbekistan, is the author of 10 operas, 50 musicals, 8 symphonies, 4 instrumental concertos and 65 soundtracks for films. He is the only composer to have written four musicals based on works by Isaak Babel, Scholem Aleichem, Shalom Asch and Salomon An-ski (»Dibbuk«, 2023) on Jewish themes, all of which have been successfully performed on stages in the former USSR and other countries become.
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Alexander Zhurbin & Irena Ginzburg-Zhurbin
His wife, Irena Ginzburg-Zhurbin, was born in Moscow as the daughter of the famous German studies scholar, writer and translator Lev Ginsburg. She herself translated numerous poems from German classics into Russian and writes poems and songs. The couple lives in New York and Moscow and performs worldwide.
Her concert program includes songs to poems by Irena Ginzburg, as well as by Marina Tsvetaeva, Ossip Mandelstam, Bulat Okudzhava, Francesco Petrarch, Denis Davydow, Vladimir Nabokov, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and others.
Encountering this artist couple is guaranteed to be a great pleasure!
Alexander Zhurbin, piano | Irena Ginzburg-Zhurbin, vocals
