Alexander Borisovich Zhurbin (Алекса́ндр Бори́сович Журби́н; born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on 7 August 1945) is a Russian composer. Alexander Borisovich Zhurbin was born in Tashkent. In 1963, he graduated from Special Music School and in 1969, he graduated from Tashkent Conservatory and Gnessin Music College as a cellist and a composer respectively. He subsequently undertook his postgraduate studies as a musicologist in Leningrad, where he completed his PhD dissertation (1973) on Gustav Mahler's Symphonies. His first big success came in 1975, with his rock-opera "Orpheus and Eurydice". This work was the first of its kind in the Soviet Union and achieved great popularity. It was performed more than two thousand times in a row, and more than two million copies of the record were sold. For this opera, Mr. Zhurbin won many international awards, including "Star of the Year", in Great Britain. More information...
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