Lola Gjoka
Lola Gjoka | |
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Born | Lola Aleksi 22 May 1910 Sevastopol, Russia |
Died | 6 October 1985 Tirana, Albania | (aged 75)
Style | Piano |
Awards | People's Artist |
Lola Gjoka Aleksi
Life
Gjoka was born in Sevastopol in 1910, into an Albanian family. She began learning the piano at the age of six, and her success was such that her father arranged for her to have lessons from the pianist Karalovy. In 1932 her family moved to Korçë, where Gjoka worked as an accompanist for singers including the soprano Tefta Tashko-Koço, the Albanian folk singer Marie Kraja, and Mihal Ciko.[4]
In 1933 she won a significant prize in an international piano competition in Vienna, which got her a job to teach piano at the
Gjoka, along with Maria Kraja, a notable singer of traditional Albanian Urban Lyric Songs, worked together and they recorded over 300 songs. By today's standards the recordings were not prefect; however they still survive today as a record of Albanian musical culture.[6]
During the
On 15 January 1962
Gjoka died in
In 2002, Hamide Stringa wrote her biography.[10]
References
- ^ Shqiptare, Qendra Mbarekombetare e Koleksionisteve (21 May 2017). "22 May 1910, was born Lola Gjoka, the first Albanian pianist". Qendra Mbarekombetare e Koleksionisteve Shqiptare. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ "Lola Gjoka, pianistja e parë shqiptare". PrizrenPress – Portal informativ (in Albanian). 22 May 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ "Lola Gjoka, një monografi përpianisten e parë shqiptare – Shqiptarja.com". shqiptarja.com (in Albanian). Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ a b c d Lajme (19 June 2010). "Përkujtohet 100-Vjetori I Pianestes Lola Gjoka". Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ^ a b Alma Mile. "Lola Gjoka ta bindesh burimin ne pentagram". Shqiperia.com. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
- ISBN 978-0-8108-4890-0.
- ^ "Faculty of Music history". Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ^ "Lola Gjoka". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ^ Roland Çene (24 February 2013). "Nje monografi per pianisten e pare shqiptare" [A monograph about the first Albanian pianist] (PDF). Rilindasi: 21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 December 2015.
...instrumentistes së parë shqiptare, pianistes Lola Gjoka (Aleksi) 'Artiste e Popullit'.
- ISBN 9789992715796.