Marina Tchebourkina


Marina Tchebourkina is a French and Russian organist and musicologist. She has a Doktor nauk degree in Science of the Arts. Marina Tchebourkina is known as an expert in French Baroque organ art and an ambassador of Russian organ music.

Biography

Marina Tchebourkina studied music at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and graduated summa cum laude in organ and in musicology in 1989. She completed post-graduate degrees in organ and in musicology at the Moscow Tchaikovsky conservatory in 1992. From 1992 to 1994, on a grant from the French government, she studied in France with Marie-Claire Alain, Michel Chapuis and Louis Robilliard, and in Germany with Harald Vogel.
From 1996 to 2010, Marina Tchebourkina was the organist at the Royal Chapel of Versailles. Since 2006, she has been a member of the French National Commission for Historic Monuments. In 2010, she became a regular collaborator at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, offering recitals, Master classes, International Scientific Conferences, consulting for organ building projects and serving as a member of the jury at International Organ competitions. In 2013, Marina Tchebourkina was nominated as an Associate Researcher at Pantheon-Sorbonne University, head of the program "Organ, Arts and Sciences".

Scientific degrees

1994: Doctor in Science of the Arts ; theme of doctoral thesis: "The Organ music of Olivier Messiaen"; defended before the Scientific Council of Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
2013: Habilitated Doctor in Science of the Arts ; theme of higher post-doctoral thesis: "The French Baroque Organ Art: Music, Organ building, Performance"; defended before the Scientific Council of Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

Distinctions

2005: Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Discography

By Natives Éditions

French organ music: The King’s Organists and their contemporaries