Galina Grigorjeva

Galina Grigorieva is the author of numerous choral, chamber instrumental and orchestral works, laureate of the Heino Eller (2003) and Eesti Kultuurkapital awards (2003 and 2013), Ela ja sära scholar (2007), holder of the Order of the White Star IV degree (2014), laureate of the Blagovest Foundation (2015).
She graduated from the Simferopol Music College, studied at the composer department of the Odessa Conservatory (class of Professor Alexander Krasotov). Then she continued her studies at the St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, from which she graduated in 1991 in the composition class of Professor Yuri Falik. In 1994-1998 she studied at the master's degree at the Estonian Academy of Music under the guidance of Professor Lepo Sumera. Currently studying for a doctorate at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater, teaching composition and orchestration.
Born in Crimea, Ukraine, Galina Grigorjeva (1962) is one of the most original composers on the contemporary soundscape, creating timeless, ethereal music whose roots lay deep within Slavonic and western sacred music traditions. Grigorjeva “orchestrates” her celestial polyphonies with remarkable skill and grace, creating soulful bridges that span the centuries of sacred chant. Gramophone magazine has described her as “the mistress of cadential suspense, a modernist who respects the past.”
Galina Grigorjeva studied at the Simferopol Music School and Odessa Conservatoire. Following graduation from the St. Petersburg Conservatoire she emigrated to Estonia where she studied with Lepo Sumera at the Estonian Academy of Music 1994–1998 and has remained in Estonia as a resident where she now works as a freelance composer.