She was born in 1961 in the settlement of Obozersky, Plesetsk District, Arkhangelsk Region, into a military family. She began her musical studies in piano with Tamara Alexandrovna Kopot at the Children’s Music School in Kushka, Turkmen SSR. She continued her education at the Children’s Music School in Chardzhou (Turkmen SSR), and then at Children’s Music School No. 1 named after Sergei Prokofiev in Vladivostok in the class of Muza Mikhailovna Shcherbakova, a graduate of the Gnesin Music College.
In 1975 she entered the piano department of the Vladivostok Music College, later transferring to the theory department, which she completed with honours in 1979. She then studied musicology at the Far Eastern State Institute of Arts in Vladivostok, graduating with honours in 1984. Her graduation thesis was written under the supervision of S. B. Lupinos, a Candidate of Art History and graduate of the Gnesin State Musical‑Pedagogical Institute.
After graduating in 1984 she began teaching in the Department of Music Theory. In 1986 she entered postgraduate studies at the All‑Russian Research Institute for Art Studies in Moscow, and in 1990 she defended her Candidate’s dissertation on the topic «Musical Theory of Ancient and Medieval India (Mode‑Tonality Aspect)» in the field of Musical Art (17.00.02), under the supervision of Doctor of Art History Isabella Rubenovna Eolian.
In 2002 she defended her Doctoral dissertation «Musical Thinking of East and West: Continuous and Discrete» in the field of Musical Art (17.00.02) at the Russian Institute of the History of the Arts in Saint Petersburg.
From 1991 she served as Associate Professor, and from 2003 as Professor of the Department of Music Theory at the Far Eastern State Academy of Arts (FESAA). Since 2010 she has been Professor of the Department of Music Theory at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music.
She is a member of the Dissertation Council of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music and has taken part in numerous scholarly events.
In 2009 she was awarded a Letter of Gratitude by the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation.
She is a laureate of the Russian Performing Arts Foundation Prize.
She has participated in international projects such as «Russian‑Japanese Musical Encounters» (Vladivostok–Tokyo, 1990–1991) and «The Magic Flute in Vladivostok» (2007–2009, as dramaturg).
From 2004 to 2008 she was Director and Artistic Director of the Children’s Music Theatre at the Far Eastern State Academy of Arts (Children’s Educational Centre «World of Art»). She is the author of the children’s opera «The Bag of Apples» (based on the fairy tale by V. G. Suteev).
She has published around 100 scholarly works.
Her research interests include musical thinking, music theory, musical semiology and hermeneutics, methodology of musicology, anthropology of music, ethnomusicology, polyphony, and the music of M. I. Glinka, J. S. Bach and others.
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