ISAKOVA Aida Petrovna

Biography

(23.03.1940, Vladimir-Volynsky, Ukrainian SSR - 24.03.2012, Moscow) - pianist, composer. Laureate of the I degree of the H. Villa-Lobos International competition (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1979), Laureate of the Russian Performing Arts Foundation, Honorary professor of the National University of Arts in Astana (2010), was awarded the Medal "850th Anniversary of Moscow" (1997).

In 1959 after graduating from the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Krasnodar College of Music, she was admitted to the P.I. Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory, where she studied at the Piano and Composition Departments (class of professors V.K. Merzhanov and E.K. Golubev). Since 1964 at the distribution, together with her husband Evgeny Isakov, she worked in Alma-Ata, taught piano at the Kurmangazy Conservatory. Cooperation with B. Ayukhanov and his "Young Ballet of Alma-Ata" reflected in the creation of music for the ballets "Hamlet" (1971), "Batyrs" (1973), "Kyz-Zhibek" (Gak-ku, The Call of the Swan, 2005), choreographic suite "Zharys" (1970) etc. She worked with the People's Artists of the USSR E. Serkebayev and A. Dnishev; the author of two variation cycles on Kazakh themes for the piano (1966), operettas "The Twenty-fifth Wife" (1975), "Near the Baikonur" (1977), composed music in the piano concert kui genre as well.

Member of the Union of Composers of the USSR (1967), Chairperson of the Revision Commission of the Union of Composers of Kazakhstan (1968-1976), Member of the Revision Commission of the Union of Composers of the USSR (1968-1976), Member of the Union of Composers of Moscow (1994).

In 1994 moved to Moscow and taught at the M. M. Ippolitov-Ivanov State Musical and Pedagogical Institute. From 1994 to 2001 she headed the department “Piano. Organ". For 30 years of pedagogical activity she has trained more than a hundred professional pianists, including: B. Serkebayev, G. Petrova, A. Tebenikhin, Y. Gorenman, P. Shatsky and many others.