Lydia Kavina
Lydia Kavina was born in Moscow in 1967 and is a relative of the theremin's inventor, Léon Theremin. She began studying the instrument at nine under his direction and gave her first theremin concert five years later. She holds a composition degree from the Moscow Conservatory and is based in Oxfordshire. She has played on film soundtracks including Howard Shore's music for Ed Wood and eXistenZ, and in Olga Neuwirth's opera Bählamms Fest. Her students include Carolina Eyck and Barbara Buchholz. Mode released Music from the Ether and Spellbound!.
Music from the Ether
Original works for theremin from the 1920s "golden age" to the 1990s, all first recordings, by Schillinger, Grainger, Martinu, Achron, Antunes, Komarov and Lydia Kavina, played by Kavina with piano, string quartet and soprano.
Spellbound!
Lydia Kavina plays theremin works with Ensemble Sospeso: first recordings of music by Howard Shore, Olga Neuwirth, Christian Wolff and Percy Grainger, and Miklós Rózsa's chamber version of Spellbound, premiered at Lincoln Center in 2000.