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LJOVA (Lev Zhurbin) was born in 1978 in Moscow, Russia, and moved to New York with his parents, composer <a href="spotify:artist:6tX2mwWje3S7fk81vy770G" data-name="Alexander Zhurbin">Alexander Zhurbin</a> and writer Irena Ginzburg, in 1990. He divides his time between composing for the concert stage, contemporary dance &amp; film, leading his own ensemble <a href="spotify:artist:55qLqnziGpSy5rnuPdPJpx" data-name="Ljova & The Kontraband">Ljova & The Kontraband</a>, as well as a busy career as a freelance violist, violinist &amp; musical arranger. Among recent projects are commissions from the <a href="spotify:artist:4JKHXlntTvmZnLxjbeRcPL" data-name="City of London Sinfonia">City of London Sinfonia</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0BaIYBNbIxaBF9warrkUXO" data-name="The Louisville Orchestra">The Louisville Orchestra</a>, a new work for <a href="spotify:artist:5Dl3HXZjG6ZOWT5cV375lk" data-name="Yo-Yo Ma">Yo-Yo Ma</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:33Jkw9vRz13pxeEU7zcump" data-name="The Silk Road Ensemble">The Silk Road Ensemble</a>, a string quartet for <a href="spotify:artist:1yKtWbh9O4CvqvYIV3HMg9" data-name="Brooklyn Rider">Brooklyn Rider</a>, a clarinet quintet for Art of Élan, and works for <a href="spotify:artist:3pZzcGCvhNTv3yoWmrXGNm" data-name="The Knights">The Knights</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3ARyhbeNWaIZTGRTDZ8IG1" data-name="Sybarite5">Sybarite5</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:2VYriHtqjMosdU0pKGKAup" data-name="A Far Cry Orchestra">A Far Cry Orchestra</a>, as well arrangements for the <a href="spotify:artist:6yeL5iw4hXNZtd8T7FOoFU" data-name="Los Angeles Philharmonic">Los Angeles Philharmonic</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1qHStDLIc8uV7hvTG6FGRJ" data-name="San Francisco Symphony">San Francisco Symphony</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1TuMl6QKOFwgQZzzhzuds4" data-name="Detroit Symphony Orchestra">Detroit Symphony Orchestra</a>, tenor <a href="spotify:artist:13rDolPZ1xlUWBQWxl8cED" data-name="Javier Camarena">Javier Camarena</a>, conductors <a href="spotify:artist:0cxXnDhpgxcMMkKddhORHY" data-name="Gustavo Dudamel">Gustavo Dudamel</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1WsQ6agpH5ybgaryTl3gyP" data-name="Alondra de la Parra">Alondra de la Parra</a>, the Mexican songwriter <a href="spotify:artist:1hcdI2N1023RvSwLzTtdsp" data-name="Natalia Lafourcade">Natalia Lafourcade</a>, Argentine composer/guitarist <a href="spotify:artist:4W3fa7tiXGVXl3KilbACqt" data-name="Gustavo Santaolalla">Gustavo Santaolalla</a>. Ljova frequently collaborates with choreographers Aszure Barton, Damian Woetzel, Christopher Wheeldon, Katarzyna Skarpetowska (with Parsons Dance). In 2018, he was a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University’s Atelier program, co-teaching a course on collaboration with puppeteer Basil Twist.

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