Angelina S. Alpatova

Holder of the title «Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation», musicologist, teacher, literary and scholarly editor.

She was born into a musical family, whose members became her first teachers. From childhood she wrote poetry, songs, stories, and scripts. In 1982 she entered the Faculty of Music Theory and Composition of the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatoire. Her professional interests were shaped by Conservatoire teachers T. E. Tsyntovich, S. I. Pitina, N. S. Nikolayeva, E. M. Tsaryova, L. N. Kokoreva, N. A. Gavrilova, I. V. Kozhenova, and M. A. Saponov (History of Western Music); Yu. N. Kholopov, M. I. Katunyan, T. B. Baranova, E. I. Chigareva, V. N. Kholopova, and A. S. Sokolov (Harmony and Analysis of Musical Forms); B. A. Alekseyev (Solfeggio); A. N. Myasoyedov (Methods of Teaching Music‑Theoretical Disciplines); E. M. Levashov and E. G. Sorokina (History of Russian Music); V. M. Shchurov, N. M. Savelyeva, and N. N. Gilyarova (Folk Art); and J. K. Mikhaylov (Musical Cultures of the World). In 1987 she graduated with distinction, defending her diploma thesis «The Genesis of Instrumental Ensemble Music‑Making in South‑East Asia» (supervisor: Candidate of Art Studies, Associate Professor E. V. Vasilchenko).

During her Conservatoire studies (1982–1987) and until 1993 she worked as specialist and lecturer in the Department of World Musical Cultures. Among her students was the composer and musicologist Him Sophea (Cambodia). In 1994–1995 she was an auditor in the Advanced Studies Faculty of the Conservatoire’s «Humanities Centre». Under the supervision of the Centre’s founder and scholarly director, Doctor of Art Studies, Professor T. V. Cherednichenko, she wrote and in 1996 defended her Candidate dissertation in Musicology, «Musical Traditions of South and South‑East Asia: On the Dialogue of Traditional Cultures in Antiquity and the Middle Ages». The Gnesin Russian Academy of Music served as the official external reviewer (report prepared by Candidate of Art Studies, Associate Professor T. M. Dzhani‑Zade).

From 1992 to 1998 she taught music theory and solfeggio at the Moscow Pedagogical University; «World Artistic Culture» and «Music in the History of Culture» at the Institute of Journalism and Creative Writing; and «Musical Cultures of the World» at the Russian International Academy of Tourism. From 1998 to 2012 she was Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Politics and Culture at the Institute of Business and Politics. During this period she also served as Scientific Secretary of the Academic Council (1998–2005), Senior Lecturer in the Department of Humanities (1998–2002), Head of the Department of Cultural Studies and Religious Studies (2002–2005), and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Political Science (2005–2013).

In 2013–2014 she headed the Department of Political Science and Sociology in the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communications at the Institute of Public Administration, Law, and Innovative Technologies. At the Institute of Business and Politics she developed syllabi and teaching aids for courses such as «Music in the History of Culture», «Cultural Studies», «History of World Culture», «Foundations of Scholarly Work», «Religious Studies», and «Music Broadcasting». There she supervised and advised more than fifty final qualification theses in Cultural Studies, Journalism, and Political Science. She initiated and organised the inter‑regional scholarly conference «Facets of Culture: Current Problems of History and Modernity» (Moscow, Institute of Business and Politics, 2005–2013; Institute of Public Administration, Law, and Innovative Technologies, 2014; Institute of World Civilisations, 2016–2017).

From 2000 to 2004 she undertook doctoral studies in the Department of History of Western Music at the Moscow Conservatoire (supervisor: Doctor of Art Studies, Professor V. N. Yunusova). Her research topic «Archaic Elements in World Musical Culture» gave rise to dozens of articles and the monograph of the same title (2009), prepared in 2007–2009 within the framework of the Institute of Business and Politics’ fundamental research project «Post‑Humanism and the Search for Alternatives: Humanity and Culture in the Twenty‑First Century». In 2001 she undertook an internship in Chinese music history at the Tianjin Conservatoire (People’s Republic of China). For teaching and research purposes she studied musical traditions around the world, including library and museum collections, during stays in Greece (2002, 2003, 2014), the Turkish Republic (2004), the Arab Republic of Egypt, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway (2005), India (2006), Belarus (2008, 2011), Spain, Mexico, Honduras (2011), Guatemala (2011, 2013), Italy, Austria, Lithuania (2012), Poland (2014, 2015), France, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic (2015), Belgium (2016), and Portugal (2016, 2017).

Her scholarly interests – musical anthropology, musical archaeology, and the semiotics of music and musical creativity – are reflected in numerous publications. She is the author of over 170 scholarly works in collections of research papers and conference proceedings; in encyclopaedic editions such as the Bolshaya Rossiyskaya entsiklopediya («Great Russian Encyclopaedia») and «Musical Instruments of the Peoples of the World»; and in music‑periodical journals including Muzykal’naya akademiya («Music Academy»), Muzykovedeniye («Musicology»), Problemy muzykal’noy nauki («Music Scholarship Issues»), Vestnik MGUKI, Vestnik ChGAKI, PAX SONORIS, Khudozhestvennoye obrazovaniye i nauka («Art Education and Science»), and others.

She regularly takes part in international and inter‑regional scholarly conferences and round‑table discussions, including:

• Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatoire («Traditions and Modernity in Indian Music», 1988; «Artistic Culture of the USA: Pages of History», 2012; «Music of the Peoples of the World», 2005–2015).
• Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (2008–2016).
• Russian Institute of Art History («Blagodatov Readings», «St Petersburg and National Musical Cultures», «The Voice in Culture», «Problems of Cognitive Musicology», «Orlov Readings», «Soundscapes of the Metropolis and the Art of Music», 2006–2016).
• Petrozavodsk State Conservatoire (2007).
• Astrakhan State Conservatoire (2008).
• Belarusian State Academy of Music («Contemporary Musicology in the Global Scholarly Space», 2009).
• University of Valladolid («Sound and Ritual: Animating Material Culture», Spain, 2011).
• Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Faculty of Dance («Musical Archaeology of the Americas», 2011; «Crossing Borders: Musical Change and Interaction through Time», 2013).
• Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts (2012).
• St Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences (2012, 2013, 2015).
• Lomonosov Moscow State University («The Phenomenon of the Creative Personality in Culture», 2012–2014).
• University of Wrocław (Poland, 2014).
• Institute of Business and Politics (2004–2013).
• Institute of Public Administration, Law, and Innovative Technologies (2014).
• Institute of World Civilisations (2016, 2017).
• National Association for Musical Instruments (ANIMUSIC, Portugal, Fifth International Organological Congress, Tomar, 2016; Sixth International Organological Congress, Porto, 2017).
• The annual «Grigoryev Readings» scholarly conference (Moscow, 2004–2014).

Since 1997 she has regularly served as opponent for Candidate dissertations, and has prepared reviews of abstracts and institutional reports, including for the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (2017).

She reviews monographs, textbooks, and articles in scholarly journals, including those on the Higher Attestation Commission list. Since 2015 she has been a member of the editorial board of the journal Muzykal’naya kul’tura Evropeyskogo Severa («Musical Culture of the European North»).

She has served as compiler‑editor and scholarly editor of conference‑proceedings volumes including:

• Grani kultury: aktual’nyye problemy istorii i sovremennosti («Facets of Culture: Current Problems of History and Modernity»), Moscow, 2005–2017.
• Grigoryev Readings (the volume «Consciousness and the Subconscious in Art and Science», Moscow, 2015).
• Scholarly editor of S. P. Zavizion’s monograph Epokha i tvorchestvo: fenomen kultury v teoreticheskom nasledii V. Kandinskogo («Epoch and Creative Work: The Cultural Phenomenon in the Theoretical Legacy of Wassily Kandinsky»), Moscow, Institute of Business and Politics, 2007.
• Scholarly editor of V. I. Lisovoy’s teaching aid Sovremennaya muzyka. Etnicheskiye muzykal’nyye traditsii i tvorchestvo kompozitorov Tsentral’noy Ameriki («Contemporary Music: Ethnic Musical Traditions and the Works of Central American Composers»), Moscow, Ekon‑Inform, 2008.

In 2003 she was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor, and in 2008 the honorary title «Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation». From 2008 to 2016 she was a member of the St Petersburg Union of Scholars (Section of Historical Musicology). Since 2016 she has been a member of the National Association for Musical Instruments ANIMUSIC (Portugal).

She has taught in the Department of Music Theory at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music since September 2014.