recordings
& sound clips to listen to Zarina Irkaeva,
cellist Mrs. Irkaeva is a graduate of the
St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia, where she earned the
degree Master of Music in Cello Performance in 1993. She
also holds a Bachelor of Music in String Performance from
the St. Petersburg College of Music and a Graduate Diploma
with Honors from the St. Petersburg Special Music School for
Gifted Children where she studied with Professors K.
Kucherov, L. Shukaev, S. Uryvaev and N.
Nurijanian. As a member of the St. Petersburg
"Classica" State Symphony Orchestra and chamber ensemble she
has taken tours to Finland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, and
Japan, and throughout the former Soviet Union. Mrs. Irkaeva has won honors and
awards in numerous competitions in Russia, including the
National Competition of Student Orchestras (Moscow 1985),
the Chamber Music Festival (St. Petersburg, 1992), the
Baroque Festival (St. Petersburg, 1994). She was principal
cellist of the St. Petersburg Youth Symphony
Orchestra. Since 1996 Mrs. Irkaeva has been
performing in New England with the Boston Philharmonic
Orchestra, Plymouth Philharmonic, the Central Massachusetts
Symphony Orchestra, the New Bedford, Hingham, Nashua, and
Newton Symphony Orchestras, the Derazey String Quartet, and
the Nigun Chamber Ensemble and the Longy Chamber Orchestra.
Orchestra. She performs at the Festivals
including the Greensborough Music Festival in Vermont, and
Jewish Music Festival at Jordan Hall, Boston, 1998; in 1994
at the St. Petersburg Baroque Music Festival where she was
the Russia Special Prize Winner, the 1993 Tchaikovsky Music
Festival in Japan, the St. Petersburg Chamber Music
Festival, Frankfurt Music Festivai, Germany She was First Prize Winner
(Principal Cello) of the National Competition of Student
Orchestras, Moscow in 1984 and the Leningrad Young Soloists
Festival Prize Winner Zarina lives in Massachusetts and
continues in her mother's grand tradition of teaching and
performing great classics of the chamber music
repertoire.
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