Alla Pavlova

Alla Yevgenyevna Pavlova (born July 13, 1952, in Ukraine) is a Russian composer. Pavlova was born and initially raised in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. She and her family moved to Moscow in 1961, and she then moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1990, where she has settled. She is best known for her symphonic work. Biography Soviet life During the Soviet era, the Pavlova family was transferred to Moscow in 1961. There Alla received her bachelor’s degree in 1975 from the Ippolitov–Ivanov Music Institute, and in 1983 her master’s degree from the Gnessin State Musical College. She studied with Armen Shakhbagyan, a composer with a reputation established in the 1970s, and paid special attention to the works of Anna Akhmatova. This influenced a good part of her output until the 1990s. Following the achievement of her master’s in 1983, Pavlova moved to the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, where she worked at the Union of Bulgarian Composers and the Bulgarian National Opera. She returned to Moscow three years later. From 1986, Pavlova worked for the Russian Musical Society Board in Moscow, before relocating in 1990 to New York City. American life Lieder and chamber music Following her arrival in New York, Pavl