2000-01
Concerts
IV, V & VI
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Notes & Bios
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School of
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RUSSIAN
CONTEMPORARY
MUSIC FESTIVAL
Lectures & Concerts
September 28
through
October 1, 2000
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FESTIVAL LECTURERS:
Elena Dubinets received her M.A. and Ph.D. (1996) from the Moscow State
Conservatory. She also studied and conducted a research at the Swarthmore
College, USA, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Israel, and at the
Utrecht University, Netherlands. She has lived in the USA since 1996,
lecturing in music history in New York, Boston, Seattle and Cornell
University. Dr. Dubinets' primary research interest is in the theory,
composition, and notation of twentieth-century music (Russian, American and
worldwide). She has many publications, including two books, on the history
and theory of music in different aspects in leading Russian, Israeli, French and
American journals and newspapers.
Marina Frolova-Walker was educated at the Moscow Conservatoire. She has
lived in the United Kingdom since 1994, lecturing in music history in
London, Belfast and Southampton. She has just been appointed to the Music
Faculty at the University of Cambridge. Dr Frolova-Walker has published a
number of articles on Russian and Soviet Music and is currently completing
her book "Russia: Music and Nation" for Yale University Press.
She is a specialist in music of romanticism and Schumann in particular, and also
lectured on the history of Russian music. She has many publications in the UK
and some in Russia; she has been participating in many music conferences and festivals.
Dmitry Oukhov is a musicologist, musical critic and a radio commentator. He
is a Laureate of the European Broadcasting Union (2000). He is a
specialist in practically all field of contemporary classical, folk and
contemporary music, including jazz and non-academical streams. He has
served as professor of music history at the Gniessin Academy of Music in
Moscow. He worked as a visiting professor at Berklee College of Music (Boston) in
1994. He has published a lot of articles and several books on different
problems of contemporary music (in Russian and in English). Since 1993 he
has been a producer of the annual festival of contemporary music
Alternativa in Moscow, one of the major events of musical life in Moscow.
Louis Pine is an adjunct instructor of music at Kirkwood Community College
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He received his B.Music and M.A. (1989) from the
University of Iowa. His primary research interest is in Joseph
Schillinger's life and work. His bibliography on Schillinger is available
on the Schillinger Home Page that the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins
University has established on the Web. An annotated version of this
bibliography will appear in the forthcoming book, Joseph Schillinger: Two
Lives, ed. A. Bretanitskaja, published by "Kompozitor" Publishing House in
Russia. Recently, he presented a paper entitled "The Forgotten Work of
Joseph Schillinger" at a conference on Russian music at Goldsmiths College
in London.
Svetlana Savenko graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory in 1969 and
received her PhD in 1978. She is professor of Russian Music at the Moscow
State Conservatory, a researcher at the Institute of the Arts in Moscow,
author of more than 100 publications on the problems of Russian and
contemporary music (including several books) in Russian, English and
German. The major fields of her specialization are Russian music, music of
the twentieth century and problems of musical avant-garde. She has lectured
on different aspects of Russian music in Switzerland, England and Germany.
Dr. Savenko is also a soprano, and has performed many contemporary
vocal compositions including Pierrot Lunaire at many festivals of
contemporary music, including "Alternativa" and "Moscow Autumn".
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