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Dilorom Saidaminova - " In Memory of my Friends " for the Symphony Orchestra.
National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan , conductor Kamoliddin Urinboev
Saidaminova, Dilorom (b. February 27, 1943, Tashkent). Uzbek composer, now resident in both Russia and Uzbekistan, of mostly orchestral, chamber and piano works that have been performed in Asia, Europe and North America.
Ms. Saidaminova studied composition with Boris I. Zeidman and piano with Abraham M. Litvinov at the Uspensky Academic Lyceum in Tashkent from 1950-61. She then studied composition with Boris I. Zeidman and piano with Abraham M. Litvinov at the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan in Tashkent, where she graduated with her MMus in piano in 1966, MMus in composition in 1967 and DMA in composition in 1971. She later had post-graduate studies with Yuri Fortunatov at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow in 1981, where she also had a few lessons with Edison Denisov.
Among her many honors are the Special Prize for Most Outstanding Young Composer (Tashkent, 1977, for Symphonic Poem) and Second Prize in a state-sponsored competition in Tashkent (1982, for her popular song Uzbekistan). She has also received Second Prize in a song competition in Tashkent (1983, for a children's song) and First Prize in a state-sponsored competition in Tashkent (1983, for Holiday Overture). More recently, she received the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Culture and Music (Tashkent, 1991), Second Prize in the GEDOK competition in Mannheim (1998, for By the Sound of Francesca) and a grant from the Open Society Institute/Soros Foundation (Tashkent, 2002). Her music has been performed at numerous festivals in Russia and Uzbekistan, including portrait concerts in Tashkent in 1992, 1998, 2000, and 2002, as well as in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Poland, Romania, the UK, and the USA.
She worked as musical editor-general of the Uzbekistan State TV Company in Tashkent from 1985-88.
She taught as a professor of composition, music history and piano at the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan from 1967-85 and again from 1988-95.
In addition to the works listed below, Ms. Saidaminova has composed many children's songs.
She is the mother of the violinist Tigran Shiganyan.
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