Valentine Yanovna Zhubinskaya

{{Short description|Ukrainian composer, concertmistress, lecturer and pianist}}

Valentine Yanovna Zhubinskaya (17 May 1926 – 2013) was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine.{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Aaron I. |title=International Encyclopedia of Women Composers |publisher=Books & Music (USA) |year=1987 |isbn=0-9617485-0-8 |edition=2nd |location=South Africa |pages=778}} She was a Ukrainian composer, concertmistress, lecturer, and pianist.{{Cite book |last=Hixon, Donald L. |title=Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography |date=1993 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |others=Hennessee, Don A. |isbn=0-8108-2769-7 |edition=2nd |location=Metuchen, N.J. |oclc=28889156}} Zhubinskaya was the concertmistress at Kharkiv State Theatre until 1948, while studying piano under M. Pilstrom and composition under V. Barabashov at the Kharkiv Conservatory. She graduated with distinction from the Kharkiv Conservatory in 1949 and did postgraduate studies in Moscow, becoming a lecturer on the piano at Gnessin State Musical College in 1961.{{Cite web |title=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/ |access-date=2020-05-27 |website=Youtube.com |language=en}}