Pavel E. Karpov

Pavel Yevgenievich Karpov has taught in the department since 1995.

In 2006 he defended his Candidate of Arts thesis on «The Work of A. Larin in the Context of the Traditions of the Moscow Choral School» under the supervision of Professor Yelena Yevgenyevna Durandina, Doctor of Art History.

In 1990 he graduated with distinction from the Moscow October Revolution Music College (class of O. V. Baikalova). The same year he entered the Gnesin State Musical‑Pedagogical Institute (now the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music) to study with People’s Artist of the USSR, Professor N. V. Kutuzov, while also taking orchestral conducting with Professor P. B. Lando.

In 1995 he graduated with distinction from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, and from 1995 to 1997 he continued his training there as an assistant‑trainee.

From 1996 to 2008 he was Chief Conductor of the «Ars viva» Chamber Choir.

Since 2008 he has served as Chief Choirmaster of the Odintsovo Deanery (St George the Victorious Cathedral) of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. Under his direction the choir has twice won the Moscow Diocesan Competition of Youth Church Choirs (2010, 2011), the Russia‑Europe Cultural Festival «Rendez‑vous with Russia» (Brussels, 2012), and has taken part in numerous international choral festivals, including:

• the Belgian‑Russian Cultural Festival (Mechelen, Belgium, 2009);
• the 4th German‑Russian Festival (Berlin, Germany, 2010);
• the International Vocal and Choral Festival «Song Without Borders» (Second Prize, Moscow, 2015);
• the International Arts Festival «Magic World» (First Prize, Moscow, 2016), among others.

The choir has sung many times at patriarchal and metropolitan services in the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin and regularly takes part in events organised by the Moscow Region Ministry of Education.

Pavel Karpov combines his work as chorus master and teacher with active research. His scholarly interests focus on Russian choral music of the twentieth century.

His publications include:

• a chapter in the monograph «Major Genre Forms in the Choral Works of A. Larin», in the volume «Will the City of Kitezh Rise Again?» (Moscow, 2010);
• a study «Stylistic Features of the Early Choral Works of Sergei Vasilenko» (Moscow, 2011);
• a textbook «Russian Sacred Music in the Course ‘Choral Literature’: The New Moscow School of Church Music» (2017).

He is the author of more than forty articles, among them:

• «A. Larin’s “Russian Passions” as a Phenomenon of Russian Sacred Music at the End of the Twentieth Century», in From the Legacy of Russian Composers of the Twentieth Century, Scientific Articles, Issue 1, S. M. Kosenko Music College (Moscow, 2004);
• «Mussorgsky’s “Songs and Dances of Death” in a Dialogue of Eras (Mussorgsky–Larin: Features of Choral Transcription)», in Processes of Musical Creativity, Issue 7, Gnesin Academy Proceedings No. 165 (Moscow, 2004);
• «Russian Traditions in Secular Choral Music of the Early Twentieth Century (S. Vasilenko’s Chorus “The Snowstorm” to Words by I. Bunin)», in Questions of Music Theory and History, Scientific Articles, Issue 9, Schnittke Moscow State Institute of Music (Moscow, 2005);
• «On E. Podgaits’s Choral Concerto “The Prophetic Soul” (Preliminary Reflections)», in Processes of Musical Creativity, Issue 8, Gnesin Academy Proceedings No. 166 (Moscow, 2005);
• «Some Contemporary Tendencies in Russian Choral Music (A. Larin)», in History, Theory, and Methodology of Choral Performance, Russian House of Folk Art (Moscow, 2007);
• «Alexander Scriabin’s First Symphony: Features of the Choral Finale», in Muzykovedeniye, No. 10 (Moscow, 2011);
• «S. N. Vasilenko’s Opera‑Cantata “The Legend of the Great City of Kitezh and the Quiet Lake Svetoyar”: Aspects of Genre Synthesis», in Theatre. Painting. Cinema. Music, GITIS, No. 3 (Moscow, 2011);
• «The Symbolism of Intertext in the Cantatas of A. Kastalsky», in Music in the Modern World: Scholarship, Pedagogy, Performance, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference, T. G. Shevchenko State Conservatory (Tambov, 2013);
• «V. A. Bulychev and S. I. Taneyev: Unknown Pages of Creative Collaboration», in Choral Conducting Education: Traditions and Modernity, Proceedings of the International Conference Dedicated to the Centenary of K. B. Ptitsa, Moscow Conservatory (Moscow, 2014);
• «The Spiritual Dimension of S. I. Taneyev’s Worldview: The Formation of His Ideas», in Music in the Modern World: Scholarship, Pedagogy, Performance, Abstracts of the 11th International Conference, T. G. Shevchenko State Conservatory (Tambov, 2015);
• «On A. D. Kastalsky’s Cantata “A Verse on Russian Church Singing” (from Archival Materials)», in Muzykovedeniye, No. 11 (Moscow, 2015);
• «“Three Hundred Years”: A. D. Kastalsky’s Jubilee Cantata for the Tercentenary of the Romanov Dynasty», in Muzyka i vremya, No. 7 (Moscow, 2016);
• «On Sergei Prokofiev’s Cantata “For the Twentieth Anniversary of October”», in Muzyka i vremya, No. 10 (Moscow, 2016); and others.

He has received a Letter of Appreciation from the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation (2016) and serves as an expert for the Institute for Quality Control and Accreditation of Educational Programmes in the Fields of Culture and the Arts.