Marina Tchebourkina

Marina Nikolayevna Tchebourkina (Russian: Марина Николаевна Чебуркина) is a French and Russian organist and musicologist. She has a Doctor of Sciences (the highest post-doctoral) degree in the Arts. Marina Tchebourkina is known as an expert in French Baroque organ art and an ambassador of Russian organ music.^[1][2][3]

Marina Tchebourkina Марина Чебуркина
Marina Tchebourkina at the organ of the Royal Chapel, Versailles
Background information
Born	6 March 1965 (1965-03-06) (age 60) Moscow, Russia
Genres	Classical
Occupation(s)	Organist, musicologist
Instrument	Organ
Years active	since 1989
Labels	Natives Éditions
Website	www.marina-tchebourkina.com

Biography

Marina Tchebourkina studied music at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and graduated summa cum laude in organ and in musicology in 1989.^[4] She completed post-graduate degrees in organ (Doctor of Musical Arts) and in musicology (PhD) at the Moscow Tchaikovsky conservatory in 1992.^[1] From 1992 to 1994, on a grant from the French government, she studied in France with Marie-Claire Alain, Michel Chapuis (at The Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris) and Louis Robilliard, and in Germany with Harald Vogel.^[1]

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 (Organ section).^[5] 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.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11]} In 2013, Marina Tchebourkina was nominated as an Associate Researcher at Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris–I), head of the program "Organ, Arts and Sciences".^[2]

Scientific degrees

1994: Candidate of Sciences in the Arts ("Kandidat iskusstvovedenia"); theme of doctoral thesis: "The Organ music of Olivier Messiaen"; defended before the Scientific Council of Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory.^[12][13][14]

2013: Doctor of Sciences in the Arts ("Doktor iskusstvovedenia"); 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.^{[13][15][16][17]}

Distinctions

2005: Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (France).^[18]

Discography

By Natives Éditions

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

• Claude Balbastre à Saint-Roch / Claude Balbastre at Saint-Roch. Marina Tchebourkina and Michel Chapuis at the Historical Great Organ of the Church of St Roch, Paris. 2-CD set. — 2002. (EAN 13 : 3760075340018)
• Du Roy-Soleil à la Révolution, l’orgue de la Chapelle royale de Versailles / From the Sun King to the Revolution, the organ of the Royal Chapel of Versailles. Marina Tchebourkina at the Great Organ of the Royal Chapel of the Palace of Versailles. — 2004. (EAN 13 : 3760075340032)
• Louis Claude Daquin, l’œuvre intégrale pour orgue / Louis Claude Daquin, Complete organ works. Marina Tchebourkina at the Great Organ of the Royal Chapel of the Palace of Versailles. — 2004. (EAN 13 : 3760075340049)
• Louis Marchand, l’œuvre intégrale pour orgue / Louis Marchand, Complete organ works. Marina Tchebourkina at the Great Organ of the Royal Chapel of the Palace of Versailles. 2-CD set. — 2005. (EAN 13 : 3760075340056)
• François Couperin, l’œuvre intégrale pour orgue / François Couperin, Complete organ works. Marina Tchebourkina at the Great Organ of the Royal Chapel of the Palace of Versailles. 2-CD set. — 2005. (EAN 13 : 3760075340063)
• Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, œuvres pour orgue / Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, Organ works. Marina Tchebourkina at the Historical Great Organ of the Abbey-church of Sainte-Croix, Bordeaux. 2-CD set. — 2007. (EAN 13 : 3760075340087)
• Gaspard Corrette, l’œuvre intégrale pour orgue / Gaspard Corrette, Complete organ works. Marina Tchebourkina at the Historical Great Organ of the Abbey-church of Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache. — 2009. (EAN 13 : 3760075340100)
• Nicolas de Grigny, l’œuvre intégrale pour orgue / Nicolas de Grigny, Complete organ works. Marina Tchebourkina at the Historical Great Organs of the Abbey-churches of Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache and Sainte-Croix of Bordeaux. 2-CD set. — 2015. (EAN 13 : 3760075340148)
• Jean Adam Guilain, l’œuvre intégrale pour orgue / Jean Adam Guilain, Complete organ works. Marina Tchebourkina at the Historical Great Organ of the Abbey-church of Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache. – 2016. (EAN 13 : 3760075340155)
• Pierre Du Mage, Louis Nicolas Clérambault, l’œuvre intégrale pour orgue / Pierre Du Mage, Louis Nicolas Clérambault, Complete organ works. Marina Tchebourkina at the Historical Great Organ of the Abbey-church of Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache. – 2019. (EAN 13 : 3760075340179)

Russian organ music

• Deux siècles de musique russe pour orgue / Two centuries of Russian organ music. Marina Tchebourkina at the Historical Great Organ of the Church of St Sulpice, Paris. 2-CD set. — 2003. (EAN 13 : 3760075340025)
• Youri Boutsko, Grand cahier d’Orgue / Youri Boutsko, Great Organ notebook. Marina Tchebourkina at the Historical Great Organ of the Abbey-church of St Etienne, Caen. — 2010. (EAN 13 : 3760075340117)
• Dmitri Dianov, l’Îlot, œuvres pour orgue / Dmitri Dianov, The Isle, organ works. Marina Tchebourkina at the Historical Great Organ of the Abbey-church of St Etienne, Caen. — 2010. (EAN 13 : 3760075340124)
• Youri Boutsko, Deuxième Grand cahier d’Orgue : Images russes, Tableaux, Légendes, Histoires véridiques et invraisemblables / Youri Boutsko, Second Great Organ Notebook: Russian Images, Pictures, Legends, True and Unbelievable Stories (dedicated to Marina Tchebourkina). Marina Tchebourkina at the Great Organ of the Church of St Martin, Dudelange, Luxembourg. — 2016. (EAN 13 : 3760075340162)

Selected books

• Tchebourkina M. N. The French Baroque Organ Art: Musique, Organ building, Performance. — Paris : Natives, 2013. — 848 p. (ISBN 978-2-911662-10-2). Orig. title: Французское органное искусство Барокко: Музыка, Органостроение, Исполнительство.
• Tchebourkina M. The Organ of the Royal Chapel of Versailles, Three centuries of history. — Paris : Natives, 2010. — 256 p. (ISBN 978-2-911662-09-6) Orig. title: L’Orgue de la Chapelle royale de Versailles, Trois siècles d’histoire.
• Tchebourkina M. N. (annotated translation in Russian). Olivier Messiaen. The Technique of my Musical Language. — Moscou: Greko-latinski kabinet Yu. A. Shichalina, 1995. — 128 p. (ISBN 5-87245-0109). Orig. title: Оливье Мессиан. Техника моего музыкального языка (комментированный перевод).^[13]