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Evenemang:
”Ro för själen” Orgelmusik för bön och meditation
Arjeplogs kyrka, Torsdag, 31 oktober, 12.30.
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Background
Natalya Ivanova was born in 1984 in Murmansk in nothern Russia. Started playing balalaika at age of 6 and went to music school under the leadership of Natalia Tkachenko. After 8 years of study at music school she makes admission tests to Murmansk´s College of Arts with excellent results and been accepted there. During four years of study with a famous russian balalaika artist and teacher Viktor Bednjak she successfully developed her skills as a performer. After that she was accepted in Academy of Music named after A. Glazunov what is in Petrozavodsk (Karelia), where under leadership of the wonderful musician, teacher and artist Andrej Belorukov she studied 5 years and in 2008 graduated as a concert performer, endemble performer, orchestral performer and teacher on string instruments. During all these years Natalya has participated at several concerts, folk music festivals, folk musik competitions. Among other things, the International Russian Folk Music Festival in 2000 and 2002 in Petrozavodsk, Russia, where she received II and III locations. Interest in the balalaika and russian folk music came when she started playing the balalaika and developed during the years. This small instrument is nearly everything to her and has changed her life completely.