Yaroslav V. Glushakov

He graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in 2012 and completed postgraduate studies at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in 2015.

His Candidate dissertation, «Mass Song in Russian Culture of the First Half of the Twentieth Century» (supervisor: Doctor of Art Studies, Professor T. I. Naumenko), was defended in 2016.

Awards and recognition:

• Laureate of the All‑Russian film‑music festival‑competition «KINOREX‑2021».
• Recipient of a Presidential Grant of the Russian Federation (project MK‑505.2018.6, «One Hundred Years of Russian Mass Song: History and Modernity»).
• Grantee of the Russian Foundation for the Humanities (RFH), project no. 15‑54‑00013 «Russian Mass Culture of the Mid‑Twentieth Century».
• Holds letters of appreciation from the Committee for Supporting the Reforms of the President of the Russian Federation (2015), the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Buryatia (2023), the Minister of Culture and Archives of the Komi Republic (2025), and the Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Smolensk Region (2025).

Membership in public organisations:

• Member of the Russian Authors’ Society since 2009.
• Member of the Youth Section of the Union of Composers of Russia since 2012.

Ya. V. Gloushakov is the author of music for film, television, and advertising.

He organises and participates in socially significant projects dedicated to anniversaries of the Great Victory and to the restoration of the finest song heritage of Soviet composers. He teaches theoretical disciplines in various faculties of the Academy.

Publications:

• Glushakov, Ya. V. «Teleproject Pesnya goda (Song of the Year, 1971–1991): A View from the Future», Khudozhestvennaya kul’tura (Artistic Culture), 2025, no. 4, pp. 264–299. https://doi.org/10.51678/2226-0072-2025-4-264-299;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «Seventeen Moments of the Mass Song: On the Role of the Genre and Song Thematics in the TV Series», in Fourth International Conference «Nauchnyye chteniya v Uralskoy konservatorii» (Scholarly Readings in the Ural Conservatoire), 9–11 December 2025, eds. G. A. Denisova, A. G. Korobova, M. V. Gorodilova, Yekaterinburg, Ural State Conservatoire, 2025, pp. 21–22;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «Gaidai – Zatsepin. On the Role of Song Thematics: Towards the Hundredth Anniversary of the Outstanding Russian Composer A. S. Zatsepin», in Muzyka v kinematografe: teoriya i praktika – 2025 (Music in Cinema: Theory and Practice – 2025), proceedings of the international conference, Moscow, 26 and 28 November 2025, eds. O. V. Sobakina, D. G. Viren, State Institute for Art Studies, 2025, pp. 12–13;
• Gloushakov, Ya. V. «Activities of the Don Cossack Choir and the Formation of Stereotypes of Pseudo‑Russianness Among Foreign Listeners», Russian Musicology, 2025, no. 3, pp. 87–95. https://doi.org/10.56620/RM.2025.3.087-095;
• Gloushakov, Ya. V. «The Soviet Song Heritage of World War II: From Inertia to Intention», Russian Musicology, 2025, no. 2, pp. 23–30. https://doi.org/10.56620/RM.2025.2.023-030;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «“On the Nameless Height”: The Work of Mikhail Matusovsky in the Context of the Paradigm of the 1960s. On the 110th Anniversary of the Poet’s Birth», Uchenyye zapiski Rossiyskoy akademii muzyki imeni Gnesinykh (Scholarly Notes of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music), 2025, no. 2 (53), pp. 115–124. https://doi.org/10.56620/2227-9997-2025-2-115-124;
• Glushakov, Ya. V., Koshevoy, M. V. «“Rise of the Machines”: Neural Networks versus Composers», in Zvuk v nashoy zhizni (Sound in Our Life), N. A. Bogoslovskaya, V. N. Nosulenko, A. Yu. Razvalyayeva (eds.), Moscow, Institute of Psychology RAS, 2025, pp. 165–169, ISBN 978‑5‑9270‑0500‑0;
• Gloushakov, Ya. V. «The History of One Song: Concerning Study of the Musical Heritage of the Soviet Period», Problemy muzykal’noy nauki / Music Scholarship, 2023, no. 1, pp. 7–15. https://doi.org/10.56620/2782-3598.2023.1.007-015;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «Impartially about “Distance Learning”», in Gnesinskiye pedagogicheskiye shkoly: istoriya i sovremennost’ (Gnesin Pedagogical Schools: History and Modernity), proceedings of the Third International Scholarly‑Practical Conference (2–4 March 2021), Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2022, pp. 234–239, ISBN 978‑5‑8269‑0287‑5;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «Den’ Pobedy (Victory Day). The History of One Song», in Muzykal’naya nauka v kontekste kultury. Muzykovedeniye i vyzovy informatsionnoy epokhi (Musicology in the Cultural Context: Musicology and the Challenges of the Information Age), proceedings of the international conference (27–30 October 2020), ed. T. I. Naumenko, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2020, pp. 534–541, ISBN 978‑5‑8269‑0262‑2 (eBook);
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «The Great Patriotic War: Song Heritage», Uchenyye zapiski Rossiyskoy akademii muzyki imeni Gnesinykh, 2020, no. 2 (33), pp. 87–93, ISSN 2227‑9997;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «“We Want with Our Boundless Country / To Shout to Stalin ‘Thank You, Dear!’”: The End of the Stalinist Song Cycle», Mezhdunarodnyy zhurnal issledovaniy kultury (International Journal of Cultural Research), 2019, no. 3 (36), pp. 100–113, ISSN 2079‑1100;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «One Hundred Years of Russian Mass Song: History and Modernity», in Sbornik tezisov dokladов uchastnikov III Mezhdunarodnoy nauchnoy konferentsii «Nauka budushchego», IV Vserossiyskogo foruma «Nauka budushchego – nauka molodykh» (Science of the Future – Science of the Young), Sochi, Inkonsalt K, 2019, p. 146, ISBN 978‑5‑9500875‑1;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «The Influence of the Russian Opera Tradition on the Soviet Mass Song», in Opera v muzykal’nom teatre: istoriya i sovremennost’ (Opera in the Musical Theatre: History and Modernity), proceedings of the international conference (11–15 November 2019), Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2019, ISBN 978‑5‑8269‑0251‑…;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «Dramma per musica: The Influence of the Russian Opera Tradition on the Soviet Mass Song», in Opera v muzykal’nom teatre: istoriya i sovremennost’, abstracts of the international conference, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2019, pp. 45–46, ISBN 978‑5‑8269‑0249‑…;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «Specific Features of Teaching Solfeggio to Students of the Department of Popular and Jazz Singing at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music», in Muzykal’noye obrazovaniye v kontekste kultury: voprosy teorii, istorii i metodologii (Music Education in the Cultural Context: Questions of Theory, History, and Methodology), proceedings of the inter‑university conference (1–3 November 2016), Moscow, Probel‑2000, 2017, pp. 258–263;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «Songs of the War Years: Life and Memory», in Dvadtsatyy vek. Muzyka voyny i mir (The Twentieth Century: Music of War and Peace), proceedings of the international conference, Moscow, Progress‑Traditsiya, 2015, pp. 309–314;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «The Russian Mass Song: The Riddle of the Aviamarch», Muzykovedeniye (Musicology), 2015, no. 10, pp. 8–12;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «The Russian Mass Song: The Struggle between Ideology and the Box Office», Dekorativnoye iskusstvo i predmetno‑prostranstvennaya sredа, Vestnik MGHPA, 2015, no. 3, pp. 425–432;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «“O. K. Great Britain and Russian Soviet Land!” Should the World Fear Soviet Songs of the Second World War? The Cost of Victory», Muzykovedeniye, 2015, no. 7, pp. 10–16;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «The Russian Mass Song in the Realities of the Information Society», in Shkola molodogo issledovatelya (School of the Young Researcher), vol. 5 (12), Moscow, RITM, 2015, pp. 25–28;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «Marching Happily Across the Open Spaces Together: Choral Music‑Making in the Context of the Contemporary Atomised Public», in Issledovaniya molodykh muzykovedov (Research of Young Musicologists), Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2014, pp. 47–52;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «The Soviet Choral Mass Song: Spiritual Roots», in Shkola molodogo issledovatelya, vol. 4 (11), Moscow, RITM, 2014, pp. 73–79;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «Song Helped Us to Build and Live On: The Russian Choral Mass Song Yesterday and Today», in Shkola molodogo issledovatelya, vol. 4 (11), Moscow, RITM, 2014, pp. 66–73;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «The Russian Choral Mass Song: Genesis and Historical Perspectives», in Filosofiya i iskusstvo (Philosophy and Art), proceedings of the Third International Conference, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2014, pp. 119–124;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «Science Grows through Youth», Bez fal’shi (online), 7 June 2013;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «In an Atmosphere of Enthusiasm», Tribuna molodogo zhurnalista, 2013, April, no. 4 (129), p. 3;
• Glushakov, Ya. V. «The Soviet Choral Mass Song: Artistic Phenomenon or Instrument of Influence on Mass Consciousness?», in Issledovaniya molodykh muzykovedov. Reformy muzykal’nogo obrazovaniya glazami studentov (Reforms of Music Education through the Eyes of Students), proceedings of the international conference of postgraduates and students (28–29 March 2013), Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2013, pp. 65–70.