Valentina Goncharova
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| Ground Floor, Schlüter Courtyard |
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The old world is rapidly leaving, and we still cannot see the new world in its integral essence. When the ground leaves from under their feet, people in search of a new support remember the most important thing: Love and Humanity. Can we win the fight against evil? Will we be able to respond to the moral, natural, and man-made challenges? I believe: Yes. Let each of us resist the forces of destruction and dehumanization, and Love will be the guiding star.
The program includes nine contrasting compositions. Approximately half of the musical material of each of them is an improvisation for electric violin and electric cello. The other half also consists of many improvisations recorded in the computer’s memory and combined into a virtual score. Almost every composition is a simultaneous sound of improvisations on record and on stage. All tracks on all instruments, as well as vocal fragments, are composed and performed by Valentina Goncharova.
Valentina Goncharova was born in Kiev. She studied at the Kiev and Leningrad Special Music Schools at the Conservatory. Since her student days she familiarized her audience with the music of the 20th century as a soloist and artist: works by Berg, Webern, Bartok, Penderetsky, Slonimsky, Golybina. She collected Buryat folklore, visited Buddhist temples.
From 1978 to 1980 she was a soloist of the Tver Philharmonic Orchestra.
From 1980 to 1984 she studied at the postgraduate school of the Leningrad Conservatory. During this time she became interested in improvised music and free jazz. She participated in the movement of non-conformist artists and poets: she performed improvisations at exhibitions and poetry evenings in Moscow and Leningrad. She participated in concert programs with such musicians as: S. Letov, S. Kuryokhin, V. Ponomareva, V. Chekasin, V. Tsoi, B. Grebenshchikov, A. Kondrashkin, M. Zhukov, V. Makarov, A. Aksenov and others.
In 1984 she got married and moved to the capital of Estonia – Tallinn. Her husband – Igor Zubkov – is a master of electronic instruments and sound engineer. The couple set up a home studio, and Valentina began recording her works. During this period, Valentina Goncharova’s first compositions were recorded on the home tape recorder “Olymp”. In 2020 the CD “Valentina Goncharova Vol. 1” was released.