Talk:Tamara Volskaya

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This is an advertising or newspaper promotion piece, not an encyclopedia article. I also suspect it was a copyright violation and published somewhere else. I am rewriting the basic facts in a skeleton of a new article. It could use some basic life info such as birth date and place, and year of emigration to US. More info would be useful but please do not re-insert the opinions and puffery. Thanks. Dalembert 13:41, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

“…the astonishing domra player, a wizard of the strings… and I say this without reservation”- London, Classical Guitar Magazine, 2000

About Tamara Volskaya

Tamara Volskaya is considered to be one of the leading contemporary performers on the domra. She is a Merited Artist of Russia, a Laureate of the USSR competition, and a Professor at the Mussorgsky Ural State Conservatory of Yekaterinburg, Russia.

Volskaya’s flawless technical ability and expressive performances have stunned audiences around the world from Japan to Europe and America. Tamara is a versatile performer mastering programs on mandolin, as well as on domra. She is a recognized authority in the mandolin world, a regular guest artist and instructor of the Classical Mandolin Society of America conventions and a member of the board of the BDAA - Balalaika and Domra Association of America and Canada. She regularly appears as a domra and mandolin soloist with orchestras across the US, the former USSR and Canada. Tamara’s most recent achievements include a performance at Avery Fisher Hall at the “Mostly Mozart Festival” with Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and at Merkin Hall as a soloist with chamber orchestra “Bachanalia” under Nina Beilina. In January 2004 she was a soloist in the concerts with the Seattle Chamber Orchestra performing two concertos for the mandolin by Vivaldi and by Pergolesi. In March 2004 Tamara completed a concert tour to Russia where she performed a world premiere of the new concerto for domra or mandolin by a famous modern Russian composer Yefrem Podgats.

Tamara is not only a gifted performer, she is also a recognized teacher. She organized and headed the Folk Instrument Faculty at the Conservatory’s School for Gifted Students in Russia. Many of her students are winners of international and national competitions. She has conducted numerous master classes on the domra and mandolin worldwide, and is the author of several scholarly works on the domra.

In America, Tamara has done a great deal to popularize Russian Folk instruments in the cultural world of New York City. Together with her husband, Anatoliy Trofimov, she has organized “Russian Carnival”, a Folk Russian Instruments ensemble, which attracts audiences by emotional and festive performances. Soon after the “Russian Carnival” ensemble was established, the group became a prominent feature of New York City’s musical scene. The ensemble’s highlight of 2004 was its performance at Avery Fisher Hall as part of the “Russian Splendor” program.

Tamara’s repertoire, both on domra and mandolin, spans a wide range of musical periods and styles, from classical to modern, as well as folk music based on Russian, Flamenco, Gypsy, Jewish, and American themes. It includes the great violin classics such as “Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso” (Saint-Saens), “Zigeunerweisen” (Sarasate) and others. Tamara also masters a repertoire including Vivaldi’s Concertos, “Russian Dance” from Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky), “Rhapsody in Blue” (Gershwin) and selections by Scarlatti, Beethoven, Chopin, Kreisler, Shostakovich, and many more.

Volskaya's unusual musical talent, combined with great emotional depth, exceptional musicality, impeccable taste, and virtuoso command of the instrument, has made her one of the greatest masters ever on the domra.

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