Nina E. Shubina

Nina Evgenievna Shubina was born in Moscow. She is a graduate of the Choral Conducting Faculty of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (class of Honoured Artist of Russia, Associate Professor Maria Afanasyevna Bondar). In 2003 she completed the advanced training programme at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in organ (class of Professor Alexander Vladimirovich Fiseisky).

From 1996 to 2003 N. E. Shubina was director and organist of the church choir ensemble of St Peter’s Lutheran Church at the Embassy of Latvia in Moscow.

In 2004 N. E. Shubina began teaching at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (course «Hymnology»). Since September 2008 she has also taught Pedagogical Practice. In addition to these subjects, since 2009 she has taught «Accompaniment Class», and since 2010 the course «History of Performance Art». Since August 2012 N. E. Shubina has been Senior Lecturer in the Department of Organ and Harpsichord. From September 2012 her teaching has expanded to include «Chamber Ensemble», «Music Pedagogy in Children’s Music Schools» and other courses. Since 2017 N. E. Shubina has also taught «Principal Instrument».

At present N. E. Shubina combines her work at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music with teaching at the N. G. Rubinstein Children’s Music School.

N. E. Shubina is a laureate of the 5th International Festival-Competition «The Magical World of Art – 2020» (Organ Solo, 1st prize) and the 6th International Festival-Competition «The Magical World of Art – 2021» (Organ Solo, 1st prize).

Among the students of N. E. Shubina are laureates and diploma winners of Russian and international competitions, including:

• Nadezhda Vostokova – 1st prize in the nomination «Accompaniment Class» at the 2nd International Festival-Competition «The Magical World of Art – 2017» (April 2017, Moscow);
• Valeria Pimenova – 1st prize in the nomination «Organ» at the 2nd International Festival-Competition «The Magical World of Art – 2017» (April 2017, Moscow), diploma winner of the 5th All-Russian Organ Competition «Sancta Caecilia» (28 May – 3 June 2017, Krasnogorsk), 2nd prize at the 3rd All-Russian Open Festival-Competition of Organ Music «Golden Lyre /from Baroque to Romanticism/» (2–3 February 2018, Fryazino), 3rd prize at the 1st International Organ Competition named after L. I. Roizman (nomination «Principal Instrument») and 1st prize at the 1st International Organ Competition named after L. I. Roizman (nomination «Accompaniment Class») (February 2020, Moscow);
• Elizaveta Andreeva – 1st prize at the 1st International Organ Competition named after L. I. Roizman (nomination «Ensemble») (February 2020, Moscow), Grand Prix of the 6th International Festival-Competition «The Magical World of Art – 2021» (nomination «Accompaniment Class»);
• Gabriela Landaverria – 3rd prize at the 1st International Organ Competition named after L. I. Roizman (nomination «Ensemble») (February 2020, Moscow), 1st prize at the 2nd International Organ Competition named after L. I. Roizman (nomination «Accompaniment Class») (February 2021, Moscow);
• Ekaterina Gorbova – 2nd prize at the 1st International Organ Competition named after L. I. Roizman (nomination «Ensemble») (February 2020, Moscow);
• Anton Ivanov – 1st prize at the 1st International Organ Competition named after L. I. Roizman (nomination «Accompaniment Class») (February 2020, Moscow) and 1st prize at the 2nd International Organ Competition named after L. I. Roizman (nomination «Accompaniment Class») (February 2021, Moscow);
• Nadezhda Skuratova – 1st prize at the 1st International Organ Competition named after L. I. Roizman (nomination «Introductory Organ») (February 2020, Moscow) and 1st prize at the 2nd International Organ Competition named after L. I. Roizman (nomination «Introductory Organ») (February 2021, Moscow);
• Gretta Kalis – 3rd prize at the International Festival-Competition «Autumn Svorozhye» (nomination «Chamber Ensemble»), diploma winner of the International Festival-Competition «Bravo, Maestro!» (nomination «Chamber Ensemble»), 2nd prize at the 6th International Festival-Competition «The Magical World of Art – 2021» (nomination «Chamber Ensemble»);
• Alevtina Medvedeva – 1st prize at the 5th International Festival-Competition «The Magical World of Art – 2020» (nomination «Organ Solo»), 3rd prize at the 4th International Online Competition «Song to the City» (2021, Kaunas, Lithuania);
• Polina Afanasyeva – 3rd prize at the 7th All-Russian Organ Competition «Sancta Caecilia» (2021, Krasnogorsk), 3rd prize at the 4th International Online Competition «Song to the City» (2021, Kaunas, Lithuania).

N. E. Shubina regularly gives papers at the international conference «Gnesin Organ Readings» and participates in faculty concerts of the Department of Organ and Harpsichord within the framework of the International Symposium «The Organ in the 21st Century» at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music.

Since 2016 N. E. Shubina has organized concerts for students of organ classes at children’s art and music schools in Moscow and the Moscow Region within the projects «Young Organist Day at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music» and «Young Harpsichordist Day at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music».

In 2017 N. E. Shubina served on the jury of the 2nd International Festival-Competition «The Magical World of Art – 2017» (Moscow). In 2018 she was a jury member of the 3rd All-Russian Open Festival-Competition of Organ Music «Golden Lyre /from Baroque to Romanticism/» (Fryazino).

In 2019 N. E. Shubina served on the juries of the 4th International Festival-Competition «The Magical World of Art – 2019», the 5th Moscow Festival of Young Artists named after N. L. Bidloo, the 1st All-Russian Competition for Performing Musicians «Ladder of Mastery», the Moscow Mayor’s Grants – 2019, the 6th All-Russian Organ Competition «Sancta Caecilia» and the 2nd All-Russian Competition for Performing Musicians named after F. P. Haass «Hurry to Do Good».

In 2020 she was a member of the juries of the All-Russian Festival-Competition of Organ Music «Golden Lyre» and the 1st International Organ Competition named after L. I. Roizman.

In 2021 she served on the juries of the 2nd International Organ Competition named after L. I. Roizman, the 1st All-Russian Open Children’s and Youth Organ Competition «Star Horizons» (Korolyov) and the 4th International Online Competition «Song to the City» (Kaunas, Lithuania).

From 2017 to 2019 N. E. Shubina headed the Methodological Centre for Supplementary Education of Children in the Artistic Field «Performance on Organ and Harpsichord» of the Moscow Department of Culture. She has been awarded the medal «In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow».

Publications:

• «The Organ in Saratov. On the Threshold of New Achievements», in: Kamerton. Journal of the Saratov State Sobinov Conservatoire, No. 111, 2019;
• «The Experience of Distance Organ Teaching during the Pandemic at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music», in: Proceedings of the 31st Conference «Modern Information Technologies in Education», Moscow, 2020;
• «The Organ in the Life and Work of David Krivitsky», in: Organ Art, vol. 3. Selected materials of the conference «Gnesin Organ Readings», ed. by A. V. Fiseisky. Moscow: Gnesin Russian Academy of Music Publishing House, 2021.