Valentina Goncharova

Valentina Goncharova is a violinist and composer, born in Kyiv in 1953, who has lived in Tallinn, Estonia, since the mid-1980s. Trained as a classical violinist in Kyiv and at the Leningrad Conservatory, she turned to improvisation and experimental music after hearing the Ganelin Trio in the late 1970s. Her work combines electric violin, tape and amplified household objects, and her late-1980s home recordings were brought back to light by the Ukrainian archive label Shukai.