Biography

Marina Minkin left Ukraine (former Soviet Union) for Israel in 1981; there she studied piano with Michael Boguslavsky and harpsichord performance with David Shemer at the Jerusalem Academy of Music.

Between 1988 and 1990, Ms. Minkin studied harpsichord with Professor Mark Kroll at Boston University, earning a Masters degree in Harpsichord Performance. In 1998, she earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Historical Performance, her dissertation being a study of the Italian composer Anna Bon’s life and work. She was the winner of the 1990 Boston University Concerto-Aria Competition, a semi- finalist in the 1991 Spivey International Harpsichord Performance Competition in Atlanta, and a recipient of the St. Botolph Club Artist’s Award of 1994 and the Elsbeth Melville Guild Scholarship of 1997.

Among many chamber music festivals, Marina Minkin has appeared at the Fifth International Recorder Festival in Montreal, Canada, the Abu Gosh Festival, Israel, the Ogunquit Chamber Music Festival, US, Cluj International Festival, Transilvania, and Brianza Early Music Festival, Italy among many others. Shewas a founder and an Artistic Director of the “LAUDA: Jewish-Arab Youth Ensemble of early and ethnic music based in Galilee.