Valentine Yanovna Zhubinskaya

Valentine Yanovna Zhubinskaya (17 May 1926 – 2013) was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. She was a Ukrainian composer, concertmistress, lecturer, and pianist. Zhubinskaya was the concertmistress at Kharkiv State Theatre until 1948, while studying piano under M. Pilstrom and composition under V. Barabashov at the Kharkiv Conservatory. She graduated with distinction from the Kharkiv Conservatory in 1949 and did postgraduate studies in Moscow, becoming a lecturer on the piano at Gnessin State Musical College in 1961.

Compositions Her compositions include:

Chamber Romance and Serenade (violin and piano; 1946)

Orchestra Piano Concerto (1950)

Piano Children's Album (12 pieces; 1946) Collection of Children's Pieces (1960) Eight Pieces (1960) Fifteen Pieces (1969) Four Etudes (1946) Lullaby and Humoresque (1946) Romance Russian Variations (1963) Sonata (1948) Song and Waltz (1946) Three Improvisations (1963) Waltz (1948)

Vocal Children's Songs (1971) Cycle of Works by Bulgarian Poets (1962) Dobruy Khleb Cycle (chorus; 1972) Molodezhnaya (Malykhin; voice and piano; 1968) Pesnya o Taimyre (M. Arons; voice and piano; 1947) Razvernis Garmonika (A. Prokofiev; voice and piano; 1947) Two Ukrainian Folk Songs (a capella chorus; 1948) Vremena Goda Cycle for Children (voice and piano; 1959)