About

Dudukina has been immersed into the world of music since her early days (frankly, she had no choice, she had russian piano teachers for parents). Inevitably, by the age of seven she became one of the pale-green-touring-concert-pianist-children. After the teenage rebellion that expressed itself in switching from classical to jazz piano (scandal!) and then to jazz voice (bigger scandal!) she won the Berklee Scholarship Tour Award and became one of the few Full Tuition Scholarship recipients in Berklee College of Music.

While in Berklee, she dual-majored in Performance as a jazz vocalist and Contemporary Writing and Production, with minor in Music Production and Engineering. It was not great for health. While studying, in addition to jazz and classical music Inna has stepped into the world of Eastern European and Middle Eastern music. It resulted in multiple works, and so blending in various cultures became her specialty. Also, she ended up picking up a variety of instruments along the way.

One of them was Armenian duduk. Despite the indisputable fact that "Dudukina" looks like a rather non-imaginative artistic name, it was actually the other way around. She picked up the ancient Armenian double reed instrument duduk while researching the origins of her surname, and ended up becoming one of only a handful of female musicians ever playing that instrument. Also, she became the first duduk in music theatre in Tom Kitt's "The Visitor" in Public, in 2022.

As a singer, her performance technique, backed with perfect pitch and soulful playing, has garnered attention and praise from her peers, as well as specialized critics and fellow musicians. Apart from performing, Dudukina has arranged for and shared the stage with illustrious artists such as Gary Burton, Layth Sidiq, Vadim Neselovskyi, Berklee Indian Ensemble, Tigran Hamasyan, Zakir Hussain, Javier Limón among others; her audience included music legends like Jimmy Page, Julio Iglesias, and A.R. Rahman. She was proud to have Jamshied Sharifi as her mentor. But even he couldn't manage to teach her to write bios. Sad.