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Marina Shmotova
(Internet Edition compiled by Onno van Rijen
Updated 2 January 2008)
Born in 1959 in Irkutsk, Eastern Siberia.
After she had left Irkutsk College of Arts with a specialization "pianist", she continued her studies in Moscow. In 1985 she graduated from the Gnessin Music Academy where she studied composition under Nikolai Peiko. From 1990 to 1997 Marina Shmotova took an active part in masterclasss on composition held by Sergey Berinsky.
"The absolute lyric. She aspires to express the most profound, the most subtle states of soul. In music she keeps off all superficial, noisy, incidental… Her positive strain is the richness of distinctive inflexions". (Sergey Berinsky).
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