Alla Ablaberdyeva, née Mukhamedievna, born on May 7, 1953, is a Soviet and Russian chamber singer (soprano) and vocal teacher. She was born in Samarkand, in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.
In 1977 she graduated from the Moscow Conservatory. She also completed postgraduate study and an assistant internship there in 1979 in the class of Professor Nina Dorliak.
Ablaberdyeva became a prizewinner of the All-Union Mikhail Glinka Vocalists' Competition in Moscow in 1977, and of international competitions in the Netherlands and England in 1979. During the 1980s she appeared regularly as a soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic and in chamber music concerts in Moscow and Leningrad, including performances in ensemble with Sviatoslav Richter. In the same period she toured in the USSR, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Cuba, Sweden, and France.
In 1991 she moved to London, after which her career continued to develop there. She also worked as a singing teacher; among her students was the singer and songwriter Mika. She taught at the Royal College of Music in London from 1995 to 2003 and at the State Classical Academy named after Maimonides in Moscow from 2008 to 2014.
She made several recordings, including Igor Stravinsky's Les Noces, several cantatas by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and Antonio Vivaldi, romances by Russian composers, and numerous works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Henry Purcell, and George Frideric Handel, mainly for the Melodiya label. A compact disc of songs by Tchaikovsky was recorded at All Saints Church in Tudeley, Kent, United Kingdom.
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