TSIBULSKAYA, Yulia

Yulia Tsibulskaya (Iulia Țibulschi) was born in Leova, Moldova during a time Moldova was united with Romania. She graduated from the Chișinău musical school (1954), the faculty of the theory and composition of the N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Leningrad Conservatory (1960). She studied folklore themes in the works of Karol Szymanowski and Frédéric Chopin.

From 1960 till 1974, Yulia Tsibulskaya was a teacher at the Chișinău conservatory (the G. Musicescu College of Arts), from 1974 till 1977 — a scientific collaborator at the department of ethnography and art studies, attached to the Academy of Sciences of the Moldavian SSR. From 1977 till 1988, she was a musical editor in the “Literatura artistică” publishing house. At present she resides in Nuremberg, Germany.