Musicatlas
Music
Her music is rooted in the Russian late romantic style. She finished 5 symphonies sofar, all of them are available on cd (Naxos). She also created many compositions for vocals.
The 1st symphony is a kind of “reminiscence of Russia” and is written for chamber orchestra. Her other symphonies also breath a russian atmosphere and are for full orchestra.
Her music takes as its inspiration the great Russian masters of the 20th century (Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, etc.), and each of her works seem crossed by the topic of uprooting and exile.
- "Lullaby for Irene" for piano, violin (or flute) and vibraphone (1972)
- Two Songs to Verses by Anna Akhmatova for soprano and piano (1974)
- "We Are the Love" to verses by Alla Pavlova for (mezzo-)soprano and piano quartet (1974)
- "The Dream" to verses by Anna Akhmatova for soprano and piano (1979)
- Impressions after Fairy-Tales by H.C. Andersen for piano (1990)
- Winter Morning to Verses by Alexander Pushkin for soprano, cello and flute (1993)
- Prelude for piano "For My Mother" (1994)
- "Summer Pictures for piano (1994)
- Symphony No. 1 "Farewell, Russia" for chamber orchestra (1994)
- The Old New York Nostalgia Suite for piano (1995)
- "Miss Me ... But Let Me Go" for violin, cello, two guitars and mezzo-soprano (1997)
- "I Loved You", masterpieces of Russian poetry for mezzo-soprano, violin and piano (1998)
- Elegy for piano and string orchestra (1998)
- Symphony No. 2 "For the New Millennium" (1998)
- The Old New York Nostalgia Suite for string orchestra, percussion, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone and trumpet (1998)
- Symphony No. 3 (2000)
- Symphony No. 4 (2002)
- Monolog for violin and string orchestra (2002)
- Suite from "Sulamith" (2003-2004)
- "Sulamith", ballet (2003-2005)
- Symphony No. 5 (2006)
Life
Alla Pavlova is a composer and musicologist. In 1983 she received her Master’s Degree at the Gnesin Academy of Music in Moscow. She studied composition with Armen Shakhbagian. After her study, from 1983 to 1986 she lived in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, where she worked for the Union of Bulgarian Composers and the Bulgarian National Opera. She spent the years from 1986 to 1990 in Moscow, working for the Russian Musical Society Board, and since 1990 has lived in New York, where she is a member of New York Women Composers, Inc. She has a special interest in writing music for film, dance, theatre, and children. Her articles, now numbering over a hundred, have appeared in Russian as well as international publications.