Rubina Mazurka Hovhannisyan is a PhD student in Musicology, with interest in Venetian and Ottoman cross-cultural interactions in the 16th and 17th centuries, as evident through musical performance-practice influence on one another. In addition, she is interested in modern transcriptions of 16th and 17th century Venetian vocal music. Her master’s research project included several musical transcriptions of Barbara Strozzi’s music (opus 8) directly from the facsimiles, with full keyboard realization versions created from the unfigured bassline as well as unrealized, figured versions for plucked string players. Currently, she is working on completing an edition of Strozzi’s entire 8th opus to include keyboard realizations and figures. The purpose of this project is to create accessible scores of Barbara Strozzi’s music for music students interested in 17th-c Italian music but without experience with unfigured basslines and figured bass realization in general.
Rubina is an active performer in the Bay Area who enjoys integrating different modes of expression in her recital programming. Rubina also directs and performs in a madrigal group she founded in 2022, based in Santa Cruz.
MA (Baroque vocal performance-practice), UC Santa Cruz, 2023
BM (vocal performance-practice), UC Santa Cruz, 2021
