If a person is an earthly system, then a composer is a system-Galaxy, and a composer-woman is a system-Universe with constantly changing worlds. At the same time, their multitude does not mean eclecticism, on the contrary: the more worlds, the more interesting the system. In the context of such a system, the work of the famous composer, member of the Union of Composers of Moscow and Russia, Elena Sokolovskaya, appears. Her pedigree is extremely interesting.
Great-grandmother - an outstanding pianist of the beginning and middle of the twentieth century - Elena Alexandrovna Bekman-Shcherbina (a student of N. S. Zverev, then P. A. Pabst and V. I. Safonov), professor at the Moscow Conservatory. The family album contains autographs of musicians whom Elena Bekman-Shcherbina met: B. Asafiev, A. Glazunov, A. Nezhdanova, G. Pyatigorsky, S. Rachmaninov, A. Scriabin, S. Taneyev, F. Chaliapin, D. Shostakovich . And besides, the family kept a gift from P. I. Tchaikovsky to the pianist - a blue bombonniere. Great-grandfather - Leonid Karlovich Beckman, a non-professional composer, but the author of the popular, considered folk, children's song "A Christmas Tree Was Born in the Forest" (to the verses of R. A. Kudasheva), as well as children's collections: "Verochka's Songs" and "Olenka the Singer". Grandfather of Elena Sokolovskaya is an outstanding domestic musicologist Sergei Sergeevich Skrebkov, mother is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, one of the famous modern musicologists, head of the analysis and polyphony section at the Department of Music Theory of the Moscow Conservatory, as well as head. Department of Theory and History of Music at the State Specialized Institute of Arts, Doctor of Art History, Professor Marina Sergeevna Skrebkova-Filatova.
Elena Sokolovskaya is a representative of the fourth generation in the Beckman-Shcherbina family. She graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1994 in composition class with Professor Alexander Ivanovich Pirumov and consulted with Professors Edison Vasilievich Denisov and Roman Semyonovich Ledenev, then underwent an internship with Professor Paul-Heinz Dietrich at the Conservatory. Hans Eisler in Berlin, and after - with Professor Mark Kopytman at the Academy. Ruby in Jerusalem. And, finally, I thoroughly studied the specifics of the sound of jazz percussion instruments and bass guitar in a professional recording studio. Since 1995, Elena Sokolovskaya has been living in Israel and has been successfully collaborating with radio stations in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
The works of Elena Sokolovskaya are surprisingly diverse. Among them are the Concerto Grosso for viola, percussion and string instruments, "King Solomon" for piano and flute and orchestra, the "Five Dedications" cycle dedicated to the Festival of the Israeli Forum of Women Composers (one of the parts - Saraband - is dedicated to the sinking of a submarine "Kursk"), a work for orchestra called "It's really so!" memory of the tragedy of September 11, 2001 in New York, musical landscape for flute solo "Reed and Flute", inspired by the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore, cycle "Igor Fedorovich!!!.." (on the 120th anniversary of the birth of I. F. Stravinsky ), “Timelessness and Times” for piccolo and harp, concerto for four flutes and piano, concerto for violin and piano, concerto for two clarinets, a cycle of 12 songs called “Midnight Steps”, created on the verses of the Israeli poetess Margalit Matitiahu and the author himself, suite for clarinet, viola and piano "Gerald Durrell and the World of Insects". Recently, such works have been written as a concerto for voice and orchestra, a suite for string quartet, three songs for soprano and piano dedicated to Heinrich Heine and Robert Schumann, a fantasy for two pianos and percussion instruments, a sonatina for a quartet of wind instruments, and others.
Her compositions take part in the music festivals "Moscow Autumn", "Harp Art of Russia", in the festival in memory of Vladimir Krainev, were performed at international festivals in Germany, Yugoslavia, Austria, Israel.
For the concert-liturgy-symphony for viola solo, choir and orchestra, dedicated to the memory of heroes and victims of wars, Elena Sokolovskaya received the award "For the best new work of 2005", which is awarded annually to Israeli musicians and writers. The epigraph to this work was the work of the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai "Rain on the battlefield", and as a textual basis - the traditional text of the Requiem in Latin, Psalm 136 from "King David" ("If I forget you, Jerusalem") in Old Church Slavonic and prayer for a child in Aramaic. In 2010, Elena Sokolovskaya received the Israeli Prime Minister's Award, which is presented annually to the country's best composers. In 2012, she was awarded the Yuri Stern Prize, awarded by the Minister of Absorption of Israel to artists for outstanding achievements and a special contribution to the development of Israeli culture. In 2014, she won the Israeli Musical Leaders Award for the musical Crime Suite.
The works of Elena Sokolovskaya are performed in Russia, South Africa, USA, Israel, Greece, Australia, Austria and other countries.