Tatyana N. Krasnikova

In 1973 she graduated with honours from the Gnesin State Music and Pedagogical Institute (now the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music), where she studied in the class of Associate Professor A. A. Stepanov of the Department of Harmony and Solfeggio.

From 1975 to 1978 she was a postgraduate student and in 1978 submitted her Candidate dissertation «Principles of Interaction of Voices in the Musical Texture of String Quartets (Towards a Theory of Musical Texture)», which she defended in 1985 at the State Institute for Art Studies.

For twenty‑five years (from 1978 to 2003) T. N. Krasnikova taught at the Gnesin Moscow Special School of Music and simultaneously (from 1974 to 1983) worked at the Faculty of Theory, History, and Composition of the Gnesin State Music and Pedagogical Institute. Since 1983 she has been a full‑time member of the Department. Since 1988 she has served on the Council for International Relations.

In 1990 she was appointed Associate Professor of the Department of Harmony and Solfeggio; in 2001 she became Professor of the Department of Harmony and Solfeggio (Music Theory). In 2010 she defended her Doctoral dissertation «Texture in Twentieth‑Century Music», and in 2011 she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Art Studies in the specialisation 17.00.02 «Musical Art» by the Higher Attestation Commission.

From 1993 to 2011 T. N. Krasnikova was Dean of the Faculty of Theory, History, and Composition of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music. Since 2013 she has been a member of the Academy Dissertation Council.

Since 2018 T. N. Krasnikova has served as Chair of the State Examination Board at the Orenburg State Institute of Arts named after L. and M. Rostropovich, at the State Institute of Culture in Khimki, and as a member of State Examination Boards at the Ippolitov‑Ivanov State Music and Pedagogical Institute and the Russian State Specialised Arts Institute (2020). Under her supervision sixteen Master’s theses and eleven Candidate dissertations have been defended, and thirty‑nine graduation projects have been completed in «Musicology», «Musicology and Applied Musical Art». She created the course «Texture in Twentieth‑Century Music» for musicologists, composers, and students specialising in «Computer Music and Arranging».

T. N. Krasnikova’s organisational and methodological work includes service as Chair of State Examination Boards at the Novomoskovsk, Smolensk, Orel, and Bryansk Music Colleges; participation in masterclasses in Novokuznetsk; work from 1993 to 2011 as Co‑Chair and member of the State Examination Board at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music and Chair of the Master’s Thesis Examination Board. She is scholarly editor of E. Piryazeva’s monograph «Alexey Muravlyov: Features of Style» and principal reviewer of monographs by A. Novoselova («The Symphonies of Andrei Eshpai») and I. Nikolskaya («Zygmunt Krauze and His Music»).

Among her students are six winners of all‑Russian and international competitions of student research papers.

Since 1986 T. N. Krasnikova has been a member of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences; since 1999, a member of the Union of Composers of Russia; since 2004, an art critic of the International Art Foundation; and since 2013, a member of the Musicology Section of the Moscow Regional Society «Music». She is also a member of the editorial board of the Higher Attestation Commission journal «Vestnik Ippolitovki».

She has frequently served as opponent and external reviewer for dissertations defended at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatoire, the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts, the State Institute for Art Studies, and the Saratov and Magnitogorsk Conservatoires, as well as opponent at the Rostov and Nizhny Novgorod Conservatoires.

She is the author of 115 works in musicology and music pedagogy, including the collections of scholarly articles «Problems of Musical Texture» (with A. Stepanov and V. M. Kelle) and «Musical Texture» (with M. S. Skrebkova‑Filatova); the textbooks «Texture and Style: Origins and Evolution»; the monographs «Texture in Twentieth‑Century Music» and «Texture in Twentieth‑Century Music in the Aspect of the Synthesis of the Arts: Space and Time of Artistic Reality»; the textbook «Methods of Teaching Music Theory» (Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2016, 2021, first and second editions); nineteen articles in journals recognised by the Higher Attestation Commission and indexed in Web of Science; and a Chrestomathy of Harmonic Analysis co‑authored with E. A. Magnitskaya.

T. N. Krasnikova has also contributed to the development of work programmes and teaching‑and‑learning packages (RPD and UMK) for new‑generation curricula. She regularly presents papers at major international conferences and symposia at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatoire, the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts, the Ippolitov‑Ivanov State Music and Pedagogical Institute, the Magnitogorsk Conservatoire, the Belarusian State Academy of Music, the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, the Chișinău Conservatoire, and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.

She also organised the scholarly‑practical conference «Andrei Eshpai: Creative Method, Genre and Stylistic Aspects» (2017), for which a volume of scholarly articles was published in 2019.

She is the author of monographs, textbooks, lecture courses, and articles, including publications in journals recognised by the Higher Attestation Commission and indexed in Web of Science.

She is principal reviewer of the collection of scholarly articles «Russian–Chinese Cultural Interaction in Education and Art», Moscow, Dashkov i K, 2024.

List of publications

Awards: Gold Medal of the Moscow Union of Composers «For Cooperation, Contribution to the Development and Promotion of Contemporary Music»; Medal «In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow»; Medal «Veteran of Labour». T. N. Krasnikova has received a letter of appreciation from Li Hui, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China, for her contribution to the training of Chinese students.

Her educational and outreach activity includes more than eighty concerts and music‑philharmonic projects at the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Central House of Artists, the Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic, the A. S. Pushkin Museum (the «Kolokola» educational programme under the Moscow City Government), participation in the International Festival of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály in Budapest, organisation of festivals dedicated to M. Weinberg and A. Eshpai, and concerts held within the framework of the annual Christmas Readings at Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Kosygin State University of Russia, and the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music.

T. N. Krasnikova is Head of the artistic association «Sodruzhestvo» at the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences and author and organiser of cultural and educational projects.