Dr. Nikolai Choubine enjoys a dynamic performance career that has taken him across the United States, Canada, and Europe. His most recent performances include solo recitals in New York City at Steinway Hall, at the Gustin House Recital Series in Saskatoon, SK, and at the Golden Key Music Festival in Manhattan as a Master Artist. Choubine has also performed Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" with the Kuban Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Ponkin, Chief Conductor of Helikon-Opera Theater in Moscow and People's Artist of Russia.
As a performer and scholar, Nikolai Choubine is the recipient of numerous awards including a Russian and East European Institute Mellon Endowment Fellowship, the Marion and Eubie Blake Scholarship, and has been named a Sorabji performer by the Sorabji Archive. He is a prize-winner at several international piano competitions including a Special Prize “For High Maturity and Elegance of Pianism” at the 4th International Piano Competition “Premio Benedetto XIII Prize” in Gravina, Italy. He was also elected to Pi Kappa Lambda, national music honor society. Nikolai Choubine's solo album “Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition” has recently been released on iM Classic (EU) label.
Born in the city of Krasnodar, Russia to a family of musicians, Nikolai Choubine began to play piano at the age of five. He received his early formal musical training from the Krasnodar School of Music for Children and the Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music. At the age of sixteen his live performance of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 was broadcast by Ekaterinburg TV. He was also featured on the local television program “Young Talents.” As a student of Valentina Zvereva, Nikolai Choubine graduated from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow with a degree in piano performance and pedagogy. He earned his Doctor of Music in Piano Performance from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he studied with Arnaldo Cohen and Evelyn Brancart. His other teachers include Daniel Pollack, Vladimir Feltsman, Eteri Andjaparidze, and Paul Ostrovsky.
In addition to his performance career, Dr. Choubine is also deeply committed to sharing his love of music through teaching. An advocate for new pedagogical trends, he is currently a Piano Instructor at ToneRow, an online community for teaching and learning music. Dr. Choubine has extensive experience teaching all ages and levels of students. He has taught as a Lecturer at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, as a full-time instructor at the Gracias Conservatory at Mahanaim College IN, as an Associate Instructor at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, as a Graduate Assistant at Miami University Department of Music, and as a Teaching Assistant at the Gnesin Academy of Music in Moscow. Dr. Choubine has also taught masterclasses in piano performance, accompanying, chamber ensemble performance and adjudicated competitions worldwide, for example, at the UNESCO Associated School for Children, the Music Conservatory at the Krasnodar State University of Culture and Arts, the Municipal Concert Hall in Krasnodar, Russia, the Sviridov Music School for Children in Kropotkin, Russia, the University of Lethbridge, the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Regina, Utah State University, and Utah Valley University.
As a performer and scholar, Nikolai Choubine is the recipient of numerous awards including a Russian and East European Institute Mellon Endowment Fellowship, the Marion and Eubie Blake Scholarship, and has been named a Sorabji performer by the Sorabji Archive. He is a prize-winner at several international piano competitions including a Special Prize “For High Maturity and Elegance of Pianism” at the 4th International Piano Competition “Premio Benedetto XIII Prize” in Gravina, Italy. He was also elected to Pi Kappa Lambda, national music honor society. Nikolai Choubine's solo album “Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition” has recently been released on iM Classic (EU) label.
Born in the city of Krasnodar, Russia to a family of musicians, Nikolai Choubine began to play piano at the age of five. He received his early formal musical training from the Krasnodar School of Music for Children and the Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music. At the age of sixteen his live performance of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 was broadcast by Ekaterinburg TV. He was also featured on the local television program “Young Talents.” As a student of Valentina Zvereva, Nikolai Choubine graduated from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow with a degree in piano performance and pedagogy. He earned his Doctor of Music in Piano Performance from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he studied with Arnaldo Cohen and Evelyn Brancart. His other teachers include Daniel Pollack, Vladimir Feltsman, Eteri Andjaparidze, and Paul Ostrovsky.
In addition to his performance career, Dr. Choubine is also deeply committed to sharing his love of music through teaching. An advocate for new pedagogical trends, he is currently a Piano Instructor at ToneRow, an online community for teaching and learning music. Dr. Choubine has extensive experience teaching all ages and levels of students. He has taught as a Lecturer at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, as a full-time instructor at the Gracias Conservatory at Mahanaim College IN, as an Associate Instructor at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, as a Graduate Assistant at Miami University Department of Music, and as a Teaching Assistant at the Gnesin Academy of Music in Moscow. Dr. Choubine has also taught masterclasses in piano performance, accompanying, chamber ensemble performance and adjudicated competitions worldwide, for example, at the UNESCO Associated School for Children, the Music Conservatory at the Krasnodar State University of Culture and Arts, the Municipal Concert Hall in Krasnodar, Russia, the Sviridov Music School for Children in Kropotkin, Russia, the University of Lethbridge, the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Regina, Utah State University, and Utah Valley University.
