Vladislava Malakhovskaya
Vladislava Malakhovskaya, a composer, teacher, and music journalist, was born in Zagorsk on October 28, 1969. She is the granddaughter of composer N. A. Malakhovsky, who died during the Siege of Leningrad. In 1977, she moved with her family to Leningrad.
Malakhovskaya graduated from the Vyborg District Music School in 1983. In 1988, she completed the theory and composition program at the music college affiliated with the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, studying composition with V. P. Chistyakov. She graduated from the composition department of the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1995, where she studied with S. M. Slonimsky.
Since 2003, she has been responsible for media relations at the St. Petersburg State Academic Capella and has been a member of the St. Petersburg Composers' Union; in 2022, she joined its board. From 2011 to 2013, she hosted the program Conversations About Music on Your Public Television. She teaches composition and music theory at the Rimsky-Korsakov Music School in St. Petersburg and is artistic director of the cultural project Petersburg Tradition.
Her works include the concerto for harp, oboe, and chamber orchestra Dictionary of the Khazars, based on the novel by Milorad Pavić; the cantata Saint Xenia of Petersburg; the cantata We Don't Need Pity!, setting poems by front-line poets; and the Radonezh Oratorio. She also works in hybrid genres, including musical stage pieces, and has written music for advertising videos. Her monoopera The Wanderer, based on Valery Bryusov's psychodrama of the same name, received a grant from the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives in 2022. Her work draws on the traditions of the Russian school of composition. Her compositions have been performed by Peter Migunov, Olesya Petrova, Yulia Matochkina, Artem Isaev, and Aivars Kalejs.