Igor Zubkovsky


Igor Zubkovsky is a Russian cellist.

Music career

Education

Igor Zubkovsky started playing cello at the Gnessin Music School in Moscow and first appeared as a soloist with the at the age of twelve, performing Haydn C Major Cello Concerto.
In 1994, Zubkovsky graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he studied cello with Natalia Shakhovskaya, the First Prize Winner and a Gold Medalist of the 1962 Tchaikovsky Competition, and chamber music with Alexander Bonduriansky. He then went on to earn a postgraduate degree which he completed in 1997.
With a remarkable record of performances, awards and academic distinctions, he was awarded a full scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland where in 1999 he earned a .

Competitions

Zubkovsky won top prizes at the several international competitions, including Diploma at the in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Second Prize at the International Cello Competition in Minsk, Belarus, and the Grand Prix at the First in Łódź, Poland. As part of the prize, he recorded a CD on DUX label and was invited to perform Alexandre Tansman's Fantasie with under conductor Paweł Przytocki.
In 1992-1997 Zubkovsky was a member of the critically acclaimed ensemble in Moscow. With the group he won Second Prize at the in Trapani, Sicily and First Prize at the in Weimar, Germany.

Performances

Igor Zubkovsky has an active concert life, playing solo and chamber music recitals and performing as a soloist with orchestras.
He has performed with such orchestras as the Minsk State Philharmonic Orchestra, the Voronezh State Symphony Orchestra, the Kishinev State Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Lodz Philharmonic, University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, and Altoona Symphony Orchestra. In addition to numerous appearances in Russia and the United States, he has performed in Belarus, Moldova, Great Britain, Poland, Austria, Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Finland, Australia, Turkey and Taiwan.
Zubkovsky has collaborated with such prominent musicians as pianists Stephen Prutsman, Ann Schein, Rohan de Silva, Michael Endres, Alexander Melnikov, Olga Kern, Bernadene Blaha, Daniel del Pino, Judith Lynn Stillman and Pedja Muzijevic, clarinetists Evgeny Petrov and Anton Dressler, singers Marianna Busching and Danielle Talamantes, violinists Earl Carlyss, Odin Rathnam, Eugeny Bushkov, Emil Chudnovsky and Natasha Korsakova, violist Yuri Bashmet, and the members of the Borodin Quartet.
He has appeared at the Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Bolshoi and Maly Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Belgrade Philharmonic Hall, the Hall of Columns of the Moscow Palace of Unions, National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art and Department of State in Washington, D.C.. As a chamber musician, he also participated at the Schwetzingen Festival, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Newport Music Festival and Lancaster Festival.

Works

Zubkovsky's repertoire is broad and versatile. It ranges across various periods and styles: music of the Renaissance and Baroque, original music for cello from the 19th and early 20th centuries, and music of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as compositions for cello with orchestra and chamber music.
Zubkovsky has been recorded on numerous CDs, the most recent with the Capital Piano Trio playing works of Mendelssohn and Babajanian. Currently he is a member of the , a regular substitute cellist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and performing extensively as a soloist and chamber musician.

Cello transcriptions and arrangements

, Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano, op. 120
Johannes Brahms, Andante from Piano Concerto No.2
Franz von Suppé,Overture to "Poet and Peasant"
Ferenc Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody No.5
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Suite from the opera "Snow Maiden"
Mikhail Glinka, Sonata for viola and piano in D minor
Sergey Prokofiev, Suite from ballet "Cinderella"
Handel-Halvorsen, Sarabande con Variazioni in G minor on a Theme by George Frideric Handel for violin and cello
Francis Poulenc
Robert Schumann, Märchenerzählungen for clarinet, cello and piano, Op. 132
Johannes Brahms, Two Songs, for contralto, cello and piano, Op. 91
Mikhail Glinka, Trio Pathétique in D minor for viola, cello and piano
Reinhold Glière, Andante for piano, clarinet and cello

Arrangements for string trio

, Prelude
Georges Bizet, Romance de Nadir 'Je crois entendre encore'
Léo Delibes, Sous le dôme épais
Giuseppe Verdi, Libiamo ne' lieti calici