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About Lev 'Ljova' Zhurbin

Instrument: Viola

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Musician

Hailed by Billboard Magazine as "one of New York's fastest-rising composers and instrumentalists", LJOVA (Lev Zhurbin) stands at the forefront of his generation as the premiere bridge between the world's musical cultures. Ljova was born in 1978 in Moscow, Russia, and moved to New York with his parents, composer Alexander Zhurbin and writer Irena Ginzburg, in 1990. He divides his time between performing as a violist in diverse groups ranging from his own LJOVA AND THE KONTRABAND, to string quartets, jazz combos and Gypsy bands; studying and arranging music for Yo-Yo Ma, the Kronos Quartet, Jay-Z and others; and composing original music for film, TV, theatre and the concert stage. Ljova is the author of more than 70 compositions for classical, jazz, and folk ensembles, as well as scores to three feature and over a dozen short films

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News: Performance / Tour

Ljova and the Kontaband at Cinema Arts Centre (Huntington, NY) on April 3rd

March 27, 2011

Ljova and the Kontraband is new music, i.e. chamber-jam music for the remix generation. As if by alchemy, Eastern-European and Gypsy melodies, Latin rhythms, Jazz-inspired improvisations, and deeply rooted Classical forms are given new meanings in original compositions that fearlessly forge a new direction, with a nostalgic gaze towards the past. Since making its debut in ...

Album

Vjola: World on Four Strings

By Lev 'Ljova' Zhurbin

Label: Kapustnik Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Central Park in the Dark; Bagel on the Malecon; O'er; Plume; Ori's Fearful Symmetry; Coffee + Rum; Middle Village; Army of Me; Garmoshka; Crosstown; Seltzer, Do I Drink Too Much?; Four; Collage; Breadbasket Blues; Spring Valley Sunset.

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Article: Album Review

Lev : Vjola: World on Four Strings

Read "Vjola: World on Four Strings" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
February 17, 2007

Unlike the piano or saxophone, there is little precedent for solo viola albums in jazz or creative music. For his ambitious debut, Lev “Ljova Zhurbin confronts that challenge with a compelling set of tunes reflecting a voracious range of stylistic influences, performed almost exclusively on viola. Lacking the tendency for shrillness of its smaller cousin, the ...