Andrey A. Gaponov

In 2005 he graduated from the Gnesin Music College (Music Theory Department), in 2010 from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music with a degree in Musicology, and in 2013 from its postgraduate programme.

Since 2009 he has worked in the Elena F. Gnesina Memorial Museum‑Apartment at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, and since 2017 he has served as Director of the Museum. He organises and hosts the annual «Gnesin Readings» conference and other Museum events, and since 2018 has organised the annual creative‑writing competition «My Teacher, a Gnesin‑Trained Musician».

He has taught at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music since 2014 and, since 2016, in the Department of Music History.

He is a regular participant in and presenter of educational literary‑musical programmes at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music; of the «Prechistenka Fridays in Memory of Prof. V. D. Nyrkova» series at the Central House of Scholars; and of concert‑lecture cycles within the International Arts Forum «Romanticism: Origins and Horizons» at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music.

Professional achievements:

• 2010 – Second Prize, Twentieth All‑Russian / International Competition for Student Research in Music;
• 2012 – Second Prize, Regional (Open) Sergei Prokofiev Competition in Composition and Improvisation, in the «Journalism» category;
• 2018 – First Prize, Tenth International Competition for Performers and Composers «Romanticism: Origins and Horizons», in the «Art of Accompaniment» category;
• 2018 – Second Prize, Eighth International Amateur Piano Competition «Piano Bridges», St. Petersburg;
• 2018 – First Prize, Fourth International Music Competition in Cyprus, in the «Piano Solo» category;
• 2019 – First Prize, Fourth Alemdar Karamanov International Music Competition, in the «Ensemble Performance» category.

Conference participation:

• «University Museums as a National Treasure», Saint Petersburg, 23–25 October 2013, paper «The Elena F. Gnesina Memorial Museum‑Apartment: A Unique Experience of a Memorial Museum within a University»;
• Sixth Session of the Scholarly Council on the History of Music Education, Udmurt Republic, Votkinsk, 18–21 April 2017, paper «The Music Museum within a University: Experience in Educational and Outreach Work»;
• Fourth Beloborodov Music‑Local History Readings, Tula, 27 February 2018, paper «Experience of Music Classes for Schoolchildren at the Elena F. Gnesina Memorial Museum‑Apartment»;
• «Memorial Museums in the Cultural Space of the Nineteenth to Twenty‑First Centuries», Klin, 6–8 November 2019, paper «From the Experience of the Elena F. Gnesina Memorial Museum‑Apartment: Fifty Years of Development»;
• International online conference «Scholarly Schools in Musicology of the Twenty‑First Century», marking the 125th anniversary of the Gnesin institutions, 24–27 November 2020, paper «The Gnesin House during the Great Patriotic War: Documents from the Collections of the Elena F. Gnesina Memorial Museum‑Apartment»;
• International scholarly‑practical conference – Twenty‑Sixth Gnesin Readings «Museums in 2020: Experience of Working under New Conditions», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 15 February 2021, paper «The Experience of the Elena F. Gnesina Memorial Museum‑Apartment in Spring and Summer 2020».

Publications:

• Notes of the Elena F. Gnesina Memorial Museum‑Apartment: Museum Community – Preserving Heritage and Meeting Contemporary Challenges, collected articles and materials, eds. A. S. Avdeeva and A. A. Gaponov, Moscow, 2019;
• Notes of the Elena F. Gnesina Memorial Museum‑Apartment: Margarita Eduardovna Rittikh, collected articles and materials, eds. A. A. Gaponov and V. V. Tropp, Moscow, 2019;
• Grigory Gnesin: Memoirs of a Travelling Singer. Literary Legacy, ed. A. A. Gaponov, St. Petersburg, Aleteya, 2019;
• Composers of the Gnesin House: Issues in Research and Promotion of Their Legacy, collected articles from the international scholarly‑practical conference – Twenty‑Fourth Gnesin Readings (15 February 2019), eds. A. S. Avdeeva, A. A. Gaponov, and L. V. Golubeva, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music Press, 2020;
• Gaponov, A. A., Potemkina, N. A., Tropp, V. V., «The Activity of the Charity Committee at the Gnesin State Music Technical School», Uchenye zapiski Rossiyskoy akademii muzyki imeni Gnesinykh, 2020, no. 4 (35), pp. 90–109.