Ekaterina Kozhevnikova

Ekaterina Kozhevnikova (Russian: Екатерина Кожевникова) is a Russian classical music composer. She was born in Moscow on 2 August 1954. At the Moscow Conservatory, she studied composition with Dmitry Kabalevsky and Tikhon Khrennikov and piano with L. N. Naumov, graduating in 1977.[1] In that year she was awarded the 1st Prize for Symphony at the All-Union Competition for Young Composers.

In 1979, Kozhevnikova became a member of the Union of Composers of the USSR. Since 2001, she has been a member of the selection and organizing committees of the Moscow Autumn contemporary music festival, where many of her orchestral and chamber works received their premieres. From 2002 to the present, Kozhevnikova has been a member of the Board of the Union of Moscow Composers.

Her works in various genres are often unconventional in structure and instrumentation. She has cited Olivier Messiaen and Krzystof Penderecki as influences.[2]

  1. ^ "Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Composers" (PDF). p. 26.
  2. ^ "For a Long Time I Have Wanted to Write Bird Songs As I Hear and Feel Them". 12 October 2020.