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Zlata Razdolina

Zlata Razdolina is a composer, singer and pianist born in Leningrad who settled in Israel, known for her musical setting of Anna Akhmatova's "Requiem".

born 1959Music for Akhmatova's "Requiem"Setting Katzenelson's Holocaust poemOver 600 songs and romances

Born: 10 December 1959, Saint Petersburg
Occupation: composer, singer, pianist, singer-songwriter

Zlata Razdolina was born in 1959 in Saint Petersburg

Zlata Razdolina, born Rozenfeld, was born in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, on December 10, 1959. Her parents' home marked Jewish holidays and the family went to synagogue. She began playing piano at 4 and wrote her first piece at 5.

She studied music in Leningrad. By 17 her music was played on the radio, and she joined the Leningrad Union of Artists. In 1978 she began performing her own works with the Lenconcert organization.

In 1988 she set Anna Akhmatova's "Requiem" for orchestra, choir and soloists, and it was performed in the Kremlin in 1989. After threats from the nationalist group Pamyat, she moved to Israel in 1990. There she appeared on television with Dudu Fisher.

She wrote more than 600 songs and romances to poems by Russian and Israeli poets, and music for plays at the Khan Theater. In 1997 she completed a setting of Itzhak Katzenelson's "The Song of the Murdered Jewish People". Its world premiere took place in New York in 2002, and in 2003 she performed in Saint Petersburg and Moscow.