Tatyana N. Krasnikova

T. N. Krasnikova was born in 1947 into a family of chemists: N. V. Keltsev, who later became a Doctor of Technical Sciences and a professor at the Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, and Z. A. Keltseva, a senior researcher at the Research Institute of Cement. She studied at Children’s Music School No. 21 and the Ippolitov-Ivanov Music College. In 1973, she graduated with honors fr om the Gnesin State Musical Pedagogical Institute (now the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music), wh ere she studied in the class of A. A. Stepanov, an associate professor in the Department of Harmony and Solfeggio. From 1975 to 1978, she pursued postgraduate studies, submitting her candidate dissertation, «Principles of Voice Interaction in the Musical Texture of String Quartets (Towards a Theory of Musical Texture),» in 1978, which she defended in 1985 at the State Institute for Art Studies (GII).

For twenty-five years (from 1978 to 2003), T. N. Krasnikova taught at the Gnesin Moscow Special School of Music and concurrently worked (from 1974 to 1983) at the Faculty of Theory, History, and Composition of the Gnesin Musical Pedagogical Institute. Since 1983, she has been a full-time faculty member of the department. Since 1988, she has been a member of the Council for Relations with Foreign Countries.

In 1990, she became an associate professor in the Department of Harmony and Solfeggio. In 2001, she was appointed professor of the Department of Harmony and Solfeggio (Music Theory). In 2010, she defended her doctoral dissertation, «Texture in 20th-Century Music,» and in 2011, she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Arts (specialty 17.00.02, Musical Art) by the Higher Attestation Commission (VAK).

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

Since 2018, T. N. Krasnikova has served as the Chair of the State Examination Commission (GAK) at the Orenburg State Institute of Arts named after L. and M. Rostropovich and the Moscow State Institute of Culture in Khimki. She has also been a member of the State Examination Commission at the Ippolitov-Ivanov State Musical Pedagogical Institute and the Russian State Specialized Academy of Arts (RGSAI). Her organizational and methodological work also includes serving as the Chair of the State Examination Commission at music colleges in Novomoskovsk, Smolensk, Oryol, and Bryansk, as well as participating in masterclasses in Novokuznetsk and at the Belarusian State Academy of Music. Under her supervision, 16 master’s theses and 11 PhD dissertations have been successfully defended, along with 39 diploma projects in the fields of Musicology and Music Theory and Applied Arts. She developed the course «Musical Texture in the 20th Century,» designed for musicologists, composers, students specializing in Computer Music and Arrangement, and master’s students in Symphony Orchestra Conducting. Among her students are 6 winners of national and international competitions for student research papers.

Since 1986, T. N. Krasnikova has been a member of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences and head of the «Sodruzhestvo» (Commonwealth) artistic association. She has been a member of the Union of Composers of Moscow and Russia since 1999, an art critic for the International Art Fund since 2004, and a member of the musicology section of the Moscow Regional «Music» Society since 2013. She also serves on the editorial board of the VAK-indexed journal Vestnik Ippolitovki. 

T. N. Krasnikova has frequently served as an official opponent and reviewer for leading organizations at dissertation defenses at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts, the State Institute for Art Studies, as well as the Saratov and Magnitogorsk Conservatories. She has also served as an opponent at the Rostov and Nizhny Novgorod Conservatories and the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia in St. Petersburg.

She has published 117 works in the fields of musicology and music pedagogy, including: 

• A reader on harmonic analysis (co-authored with E. A. Magnitskaya);
• Collections of scientific articles: Problems of Musical Texture (co-authored with A. Stepanov and V. M. Kelle);
• Musical Texture (co-authored with M. S. Skrebkova-Filatova);
• Textbooks: Texture and Style: Origins and Evolution;
• Monographs: Texture in 20th-Century Music and Texture of 20th-Century Music in the Aspect of Art Synthesis: Space and Time of Artistic Reality;
• Textbook: Methods of Teaching Music Theory (Moscow: Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2016, 2021 — 1st and 2nd editions);
• Articles in journals recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission (VAK) and indexed on the Web of Science platform.

T. N. Krasnikova regularly presents papers at prestigious international conferences and symposiums at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts (MSUCA), the Ippolitov-Ivanov State Musical Pedagogical Institute, the Magnitogorsk State Conservatory, the Belarusian State Academy of Music, the Vano Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatory, the Chișinău Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts, the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, and the Ufa State Institute of Arts named after Zagir Ismagilov. She also organized the scientific and practical conference «Andrei Eshpai: Creative Method. Genre and Stylistic Aspects» (2017), the proceedings of which were published as a collection of scholarly articles in 2019. 

T. N. Krasnikova’s educational and outreach activities include 90 concerts and artistic projects held at the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Central House of Architects, the Embassy of the Czech Republic, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the International Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály Festival in Budapest, international festivals dedicated to M. Weinberg and A. Eshpai, as well as concerts held within the framework of the Christmas Readings at Moscow State University, the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, and the Kosygin Russian State University. 

Achievements and Awards:

• Gold Medal of the Union of Composers «For Cooperation and Contribution to the Promotion of Contemporary Music»;
• Veteran of Labour Medal;
• Medal «In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow»;
• Letter of Appreciation from the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China for her contribution to the training of Chinese specialists.