Tamara Maliukova Sidorenko

Tamara Stepanovna Maliukova Sidorenko (15 February 1919 - 2005) was a Ukrainian composer, music educator and pianist.

Sidorenko was born in Odessa. She studied piano at the Nikolayev Music School and graduated from the Odessa Conservatory in 1946, where she studied composition with Serafim D. Orfeyev. Sidorenko taught at the Odessa Conservatory and later chaired the composition and theory department at the Odessa Music School until 1970. Her students included Oleksandr Krasotov.

Sideorenko arranged many Czech, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian folk songs. She wrote music for unspecified films and television programs; composed cantatas based on texts by L. Barabanov, V. Bobrov, Andrei Voznesensky, and E. Yanvarov; choruses based on texts by Nikolay Nekrasov, Taras Shevchenko, and Lesya Ukrainka; and songs based on texts by V. Karpeko, Federico García Lorca, Roberto Fernandez Retamar, Shevchenko, A. Tolstoy, S. Vasiliev, Sergei Yesenin, and others. Her instrumental compositions included:

Chamber

Kolkhoz String Quartet

Pieces for Cello and Piano

Pieces for Viola

String Quartet No. 1

String Quartet No. 2 on Ukrainian Themes

Orchestra

Bogdan Khmeinitzky Overture

Suite of Ancient Dances

Symphony No. 1

Symphony No. 2

Symphony No. 3

Piano

Cycle Piece in Old Style

Preludes

Sonatas

References

Ukrainian composers

Ukrainian women composers

String quartet composers

2005 deaths

1919 births