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Name
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Ludmila Yurina
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Bio
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Ludmila Yurina was born in Uzyn (Ukraine), graduated from Kyiv Music College as a pianist in 1981 and from Kyiv State P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire as a composer in 1990, completing her post-graduate courses there in 1998. She was a Visiting Scholar at the CCRMA, Stanford University in 2011. She attended workshops with eminent musicians P.H. Dittrich, Irvine Arditti, H. Zapf, G. Staebler, J. Durand at the Rheinsberg Music Academy as well as with Helmuth Lachenmann and Wolfgang Rihm in Dresden (Germany). In 1990-1992, Ludmila Yurina worked as an Associate Professor of Composition at the National Music Academy of Ukraine specialising in composition, orchestration, symphony score reading (and two courses). She was a guest-composer to flute workshop at the Rheinsberg Music Academy in 1999, and was invited to give a lecture about contemporary Ukrainian music there in 1999. She was also invited to Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart in 2006 (both in Germany), to Texas Christian University in 2008 and 2011 (USA), to City University New York Graduate Center aka CUNY in 2020, and to Stanford University (CCRMA, 2022). In 2010, she got a grant from the Fulbright Foundation for scholarship in Stanford University, CCRMA (USA). In 1999 her name was included in the reference book Who is Who (Delaware, USA).
Yurina has participated in numerous international festivals; her works have been performed in Germany, France, Ukraine, USA, Canada, Italy, Finland, Estonia, Israel, Moldova, Poland etc. She has collaborated with well-known German performers such as cellist Matthias Lorenz, trombonist Dirk Amrein, pianist Stefan Eder, Carin Levine, Sinfonietta Dresden, new music ensemble XelmYa, and Ensemble Timbre Actuel. Her music has also been performed by MAVerick Ensemble, the Symphony Orchestra of Northwestern University, Karen Bentley Pollick, Trio Ravus, Edo Frenkel, Laura Ospina (USA), Borealis Brass (Canada), Pierre-Stephane Meuge (France), Ivo Nilsson (Sweden), Orchestra of Ukrainian Television and Broadcasting Company, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Kyiv Camerata, percussion ensemble Ars Nova, the TanzLaboratorium dance company, Duo Violoncellissimo, new music ensemble Sed Contra, and pianist Eugene Gromov (Ukraine). Recordings of her music were produced on the CD "Two Days and Two Nights of New Music: Festivals 1998-2000," "Roman Holidays" of Borealis Brass (Canada), "Women and War and Peace" of pianist Katelyn Bouska, Radio Deutsche Welle (Germany), Ukrainian Independent Radio (Chicago, USA), WPRB ( Princeton, USA), Canadian Broadcasting (Edmonton), Ukrainian National TV and Radio Company.
Her works are published by Muzychna Ukraina Publishing House (Ukraine), Frederick Harris Music Publishing (Canada), Furore Verlag, Certosa Verlag (Germany), TEM Taukay Edition (Italy), Terme-Music-Verlag (Switzerland), Donemus (Netherlands). Ludmila Yurina was an organiser and co-director of the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival in the USA-- in Fort Worth in 2008 and 2012, and in New York in 2020.
She is a member of National Ukrainian Composers' Union.
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