Ljova.com redesigned

Dear Friends, Welcome to a revised version of Ljova.com! After years of dancing around...

Cycling Fiddles

Ljova biking on the Hudson River Greenway, 14F outside A few weeks ago, I...

Throw you for a loop?

Play this Soundcloud file for an excerpt of me trying to get something going...

Selling Out (second-guessing the audience)

Save Sibelius

Dear Avid, My name is Lev Zhurbin, and I am a New York-based composer...

Ljova's "Plume" in video for La Perla

Ljova's track "Plume", from Vjola: World on Four Strings, has just been used in...

"kind of"

The composer Nico Muhly has recently written a blog post broadly discussing genre, which...

how Z100 ruined my life

Age is just a number, and you’re only as old as you feel.  Though...

talking my way out of a Whole Foods paper bag

Dear Whole Foods, My name is Lev Zhurbin, and I'm a dad of two...

hooked on ack!

One of the least gratifying aspects of my experience as a father has been...

January 15, 2012 -- Alexander Zhurbin and Irena Ginzburg at Joe's Pub

(Русский текст ниже) Alexander Zhurbin / Irena Ginzburg with special guests Inna Barmash &...

Ljova - Lost in Kino

"Lost in Kino" is the third album from composer and violist Ljova (a.k.a. Lev Zhurbin), focusing on his recent film works. The album's 24 tracks feature a wide range of textures and emotional states, from collaborations with the Gypsy band Romashka, the alt-indie-folk Tall Tall Trees, to cameos from the Hungarian cymbalom virtuoso Kálmán Balogh (playing a cue from Francis Ford Coppola's film "Youth Without Youth"), pipa player Wu Man, among many others, and of course featuring Ljova himself on viola, famiola and fiddle. blog the Autogate Strollergate Dear fellow commuters, My wife and I are parents of two young kids, and... blog Sibelius 7 musings Sibelius, the dear notation program that I love and spend many hours of the... blog Sibelius on a laptop, without a keypad Shortly after writing my previous post last year, about using Sibelius on a laptop,... blog Sibelius notation on a laptop - a mobile rig solution that works for me I've been a user of the notation program Sibelius since its very first version,...