Musicologist, researcher, translator, radio producer, and teacher.
Born into a family of secondary‑school teachers. From 1966 to 1977 he studied violin at the Republican Boarding School for Music and Fine Art (now the I. O. Akhremchik Gymnasium‑College of Arts), then graduated with distinction from the History, Theory, and Composition Faculty of the Gnesin State Music and Pedagogical Institute (now the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music), where his special‑class teacher was A. G. Chugaev.
After graduating he served in the army from June 1982 to December 1983 with the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, where he also completed a three‑month officers’ training course.
From 1984 to 1986 he worked as a methodologist at the Inter‑Union House of Amateur Creativity under the Moscow City Trade‑Union Council.
From 1986 to 1988 he was a junior researcher in the Manuscripts Department of the M. I. Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture.
Since 1988 he has worked at the State Institute for Art Studies of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, first as junior, then senior, and since June 2013 as leading researcher in the Department of Classical Art of Western Europe (from 2005 also on a part‑time basis).
In 2005 he headed the Broadcast Planning Department at Radio Kultura.
Since 2008 he has served as Deputy Programme Director of Radio Orpheus.
Since 2009 he has been Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Cultural Economics in the Management Faculty of the Gnesin Academy, and since 2013 Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Musical Arts.
From 1985 to 1988 he was a doctoral candidate (external researcher) in the Music History Department at the Gnesin Academy under R. K. Shirinyan.
In 1990 he defended his Candidate of Art History dissertation «Mozart’s Operatic Output in the Context of Enlightenment Culture» in musicology.
In 1998, together with I. P. Susidko, he published the first volume of the monograph «The Italian Opera of the Eighteenth Century: Under the Sign of Arcadia».
In 2000 he co‑translated from German (with M. V. Zorka) B. Weikl’s book «On Singing and Other Skills» for the publisher Agraf.
He authored the chapter on Italian musical culture in the collective monograph «History of Western European Art from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century: The Nineteenth Century» produced by the Classical Art Department of the State Institute for Art Studies (Iskusstvo, 2002).
In 2004, again with I. P. Susidko, he published the second volume of «The Italian Opera of the Eighteenth Century: The Age of Metastasio» (Klassika‑XXI), a project supported by Russian Humanities Research Foundation grants.
He compiled, co‑translated (with S. Grokhotov), and annotated the book «Mozart in the Stories and Anecdotes of His Contemporaries» (Klassika‑XXI, 2007). In 2008 he and I. P. Susidko published the monograph «Mozart and His Time» (Klassika‑XXI), also supported by Russian Humanities Research Foundation grants.
His scholarly activity includes presentations at national and international conferences, notably a paper (with I. P. Susidko) on «Hasse and Russian Musical Culture» at a Hamburg conference in May 1999, later published in the volume «J. A. Hasse und die Musikkultur seiner Zeit» (Carus‑Verlag, 2006, in German).
He is the author of over thirty articles in scholarly collections, including seven in peer‑reviewed journals; selected titles include:
- «Early Italian Madrigal, Sixteenth Century», teaching‑methodology manual, Moscow, 2019, 40 pp., with musical examples;
- «Musical Theatre in the Eighteenth Century», teaching‑methodology manual, Moscow, 2019, 100 pp. (co‑authored with I. P. Susidko);
- «Josquin Desprez’s “Nymphes des bois” and Johannes Ockeghem’s “Mort, tu as navré de ton dart”: work to a model or dialogue?», Starinnaya muzyka, 2019, no. 4, pp. 1–8;
- «The poetics of the libretto in eighteenth‑century Italian comic opera: problem statement», in Opera v muzykal’nom teatre: istoriya i sovremennost’, proceedings of the international conference, 11–15 October 2019, Moscow, Gnesin Academy and State Institute for Art Studies, 2019, pp. 71–80.
Since 2009 he has organised the annual Young Composers’ Competition at Radio Orpheus and served as the station’s representative at the UNESCO‑sponsored International Rostrum of Composers, as well as a jury member for the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) in classical recording.
He also produces several programme cycles for Radio Orpheus.
In 2016 he defended his Doctor of Art History dissertation «The Tradition of Italian Comic Opera in the Seventeenth and First Half of the Eighteenth Century: Genesis and Poetics of Genres».
