She studied at the Gnesin Children’s Music School in the violin class of M. M. Yarovitskaya, then at the Music College of the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in the Music Theory Department, where her teachers included Dmitry A. Blyum, Elena M. Tsareva, Yuri N. Kholopov, Viktor P. Fraenov, and others. In 1985 she graduated from the Saratov Sobinov State Conservatory with a degree in Musicology.
In 1980 she began working at Gosteleradio USSR as an assistant sound engineer, and since 2005 has held the position of top‑rank sound engineer at the All‑Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.
Over these years Marina V. Karpenko has worked in a wide range of genres in the music and literary recording studios of VGTRK (including live‑broadcast studios), and has made numerous broadcast recordings from the Great, Small, and Rachmaninov Halls of the Moscow Conservatory, the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music Concert Hall, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, and various Moscow theatres.
In the literary‑dramatic studios she has recorded a large number of radio plays, literary productions, and radio programmes in collaboration with directors Marlen Khutsiev, Mark Levitin, Yevgeny Kamenkovich, Sergei Artsybashev, Mikhail Kozakov, Mark Rozovsky, and others.
From 1992 to 2004 she collaborated with the BBC on the radio serial «Dom 7, podezd 4» («House 7, Entrance 4»).
Since 1995 she has made recordings for the annual international radio competition «Concertino Prague».
The radio production «The Blue Book», based on stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko, and the play «Anna Karenina», based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel, were laureates of the Golden Microphone awards.
Marina V. Karpenko currently works on projects for the station «Radio Rossii. Kultura».
She has taught at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music since 2010.
Participation in competitions:
- Prix Italia Award 2013;
- Gnesin Sound Competition 2017;
- 1st All‑Russian Pavel K. Kondrashin Competition of Sound‑Engineering Creative Works (within the 2nd All‑Russian Pedagogical Forum).
Planned projects:
- «Happy to Have Breathed and Lived…», a cycle of radio programmes;
- Valentin Pikul, «The Battle of the Iron Chancellors», radio play;
- «Pro et contra», a radio play based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel «The Brothers Karamazov»;
- recordings of musical works for the International Competition «Concertino Prague».
