Vladimir Kobekin

Background

He was born on July 22, 1947 in Berezniki, Perm region.

Education

He graduated from the music school in the city of Berezniki and the Bereznikov music school as a pianist in 1965. The next three years he studied at the piano department of the Ural State Conservatory named after M.Mussorgsky. He also studied under Sergei Slonimsky at the Leningrad Conservatory from which he graduated in 1971.

Career

After graduating in 1971 he taught music composition at the Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire (1971–1980). Kobekin served as a chairman (1992-1995) and and a co-chairman together with L. Gurevich (2001–2006) of the Ural branch of the Union of Soviet Composers. Since 1995 he has been a senior lecturer in the composition department at the Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire. From 1995 to 2001 was a Secretary of the Union of Russian Composers (curator of the Ural and Zauralye regions)

Achievements

• In 1987 he won the Honoured Representative of the Arts Award, and later that year he was made a laureate of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Prize.
  
  Among his notable pupils is opera composer Anastasia Bespalova.

Works

• Other Work

  • Ysaye: 6 Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27 / Prokofiev: Sonata For Solo Violin, Op. 115

    (Gideon Kremer, Vladimir Malinin, Ysaye, Prokofiev, Juozap...)

  • Vladimir Kobekin - composition, piano. Anastasia Kobekina - violoncello

    (Kobekina Anastasia, Kobekin Vladimir, Kobekin Vladimir - ...)

  • "Energy of musical structures"

    2003

  • "Space of creativity: radiation and chimes"

    2005

Connections

He has a daughter Anastasia Kobekina, who plays violoncello.

child:

Anastasia Kobekina

References

• Great Russian Encyclopedia