Iryna V. Hubarenko (June 30, 1959, Kharkiv - October 10, 2004, Kharkiv) was a Ukrainian composer, theater performer, and poet.
She was born on June 30, 1959, in Kharkiv, into the famous theater and music family of Cherkashyni-Gubarenko. Her upbringing was greatly influenced by her grandfather, a director, Berezilian actor, and theater teacher Roman Cherkashyn, and her grandmother, an actress Yulia Fomina. Her choice of music profession was determined by the example of her parents, composer Vitalii Hubarenko and musicologist Maryna Cherkashyna-Hubarenko.
After graduating from the Kharkiv Specialized Music School in 1979, she entered the Kharkiv Institute of Arts named after I. Kotliarevsky, the Composition Department, class of Professor V. Zolotukhin.
After graduating from the institute in 1984, she came to work at the Kharkiv Young Spectator Theater as the head of the music department, where she created music for performances for twenty years. During her years at the theater, she scored more than 20 of the theater's productions[1].
In 1987, together with young actors of the Theater, with the participation of Roman Cherkashyn, she created the studio collective "Poor Theater". During the years of its existence, she directed a composition based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, White Roses, Pink Elephants based on W. Gibson's play, Krotkaya based on F. Dostoevsky's novel, In Your Name (Ukrainian mystery), her own staging of Pidmohylny's Ostap Shaptala, and several poetry programs. The works of the Poor Theater were shown in Kharkiv and Kyiv."[2]
In addition to theatrical music, Hubarenko wrote several dozen romances and songs based on her own texts. She composed the symphonic poem "Akhtamar", a number of chamber music pieces - piano preludes, vocal cycles, an oboe sonata, and the rock opera "Solaris".
Since her youth, she wrote poetry and prose, posthumously published in the collection Poetic Meditations (Kyiv, 2005), as well as in the magazine Soty, 2005, № 11.
In the last years of her life, she was actively engaged in theater criticism, published in the newspaper Dzerkalo Tyzhnia[3] (including under the pseudonym Iryna Arnautova[3]), and the magazine Theater-Kino. She was working on her PhD thesis on "Director's Concepts of the Twentieth Century in the Light of Analytical Psychology" as a researcher at the Department of Theory and History of Culture of the National Music Academy of Ukraine.
She died on October 10, 2004. She was buried in Kyiv at the Baikove Cemetery next to her father.
Selected works
Sonata for oboe and piano (1979);
Three piano preludes (1982);
Rock opera Solaris (1981);
Symphonic poem "Akhtamar" (1984);
Chamber opera "The Bear" based on the story by A. Chekhov (1989),
Vocal diptych based on poems by Ivan Drach (1981),
Cassandra's Monologue for mezzo-soprano and piano based on poems by Lesya Ukrainka (1985);
Vocal cycle based on poems by L. Kyselov "Sing, Sister" (1987);
Three songs based on poems by L. Kyselov for tenor and piano (1988).
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