Marina Nikolaevna Shamba ( Abkh. Shamka Marina Nikolay-iҧҳa ) ( March 8, 1952 , Gagra , Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ) - artistic director of the Pitsunda organ hall , the first Abkhaz organist, soloist of the Abkhaz State Philharmonic Society, People's Artist of the Republic of Abkhazia.
| Marina Shamba | |
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| Full name | Marina Nikolaevna Shamba ( abkh. Shamҧҳa Marina Nikolay-iҧҳa ) |
| Date of Birth | March 8, 1952 (67 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Gagra Abkhaz ASSR |
| A country |  the USSR  Republic of Abkhazia |
| Professions | organist |
| Instruments | organ |
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Biography
A graduate of the Tbilisi Conservatory in piano (teachers prof. A. G. Vasadze, then prof. N. D. Tavkhelidze ), accompanist of the Abkhaz State Philharmonic .
In December 1987, she successfully completed her studies at the Moscow Conservatory as an organ. All these years, Marina dreamed that native tunes would sound in organ music.
As a result, Marina Nevskaya and Elena Butuzova enthusiastically shifted several songs and melodies for the organ: the Abkhaz lullaby “Sew-Nani” by composer I. Lakrba, where the theme of the makhadzhir tragedy of the Abkhazians - the outcome from their historical homeland; folk masterpiece - “Song of the wounded”, which in the old days was sung to the wounded, taking him out of the battlefield on a stretcher of bound swords covered with a cloak, and then at the bedside of a suffering or dying warrior to raise his spirit; "Song of the Rock" with its drama and a storm of passions, as well as the "Little Rhapsody" dedicated to M. Shamba by E. Butuzova, which, along with others, included dance tunes and the leitmotif of the Abkhaz wedding song.
Suites on the themes of Abkhaz folk songs were first heard in their homeland in the summer of 1987 at a concert by Marina Shamba in Pitsunda . Then she was assisted by a talented organist who came from Moscow, now Honored Artist of the Russian Federation , soloist of the Barnaul Philharmonic , candidate of pedagogical sciences, head. Department of Arts of Barnaul Pedagogical State University Sergey Budkeev. It was at this concert, along with the works of great composers, that Abkhazian music lovers listened to their national, performed on the organ. Marina Shamba also played them at a solo organ concert in January 1988 in the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, where for the first time in its history Abkhazian music was performed.
Returning from Moscow, M. Shamba joined the team of Pizunda organists, becoming a soloist of the Abkhaz State Philharmonic. Even when she was studying at the Moscow Conservatory, in a letter to the Ministry of Culture of Abkhazia dated May 28, 1986 with a request to extend graduate school, L. I. Roizman wrote: “M. Shamba, possessing excellent data, is a fine musician and will be valuable to the republic, the first and only national cadre in the field of organ music. ”
Ranks and Prizes
- 2004 - Order “Akhdz-Apsha” (“Honor and Glory”), III degree.
- 2007 - People's Artist of the Republic of Abkhazia