The death has been announced of the Ukrainian composer Yakov Gubanov, aged 71. His legacy includes six symphonies, a violin concerto and much other orchestral music. He credited Dmitri Shostakovich with a profound influence on his life and work.
Gubanov taught for several years at Berklee, before making a final move to Italy.
His family write:
With our hearts full of sorrow we announce that Yakov passed away at midnight on Friday, 21 March, in Vienna. He was diagnosed with a devastating cancer which took his life in three months.
Yakov lived and experienced everything through the lens of an Artist.
Let us all remember him in all of his beauty and depth of soul, and let us celebrate him through his own precious music and words.
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Enrica and Tanya,
loving wife and daughter.
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