Ekaterina V. Makartseva

She graduated from the Penza Music College (Department of Music Theory, in the composition class of E. V. Gusev). In 2001 she graduated with honours from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, specialising in composition and orchestration in the class of Professor G. V. Chernov, and in 2003 she completed an assistant traineeship (class of G. V. Chernov).

Since 2006 she has been a lecturer in the Department of Analytical Musicology. She teaches courses in polyphony and musical form, including for students of the Continuing Professional Education Centre.

Her other professional activities include supervising students’ graduation theses, assisting in the preparation of papers for student scholarly conferences, including for international students (since 2006 E. V. Makartseva has been chief specialist in the Department for Visa and Migration Support of International Students and Continuing Education).

Since 2011 she has been a regular reviewer of collections of articles based on all‑Russian and international conferences held in Penza.

She is a member of the organising committees of various conferences held at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music and serves as technical secretary of the International Student Research Competition in Musical Art.

E. V. Makartseva gives masterclasses and public lectures as part of the «University Saturdays» project.

Her research interests include the history and theory of polyphony, musical form and analysis of musical works, and music for orchestras of Russian folk instruments.

Since 2013 she has been a member of the Penza branch of the Union of Composers of Russia. She performs her own works at various concert venues in Penza and participates in press conferences devoted to the presentation of collections of works by Penza composers.

She is currently a postgraduate student at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in the specialisation 13.00.02 «Theory and Methodology of Teaching and Upbringing» (scientific supervisor: Professor I. P. Susidko). She is working on a Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences dissertation entitled «Music for Orchestras of Russian Folk Instruments by Composers of the Gnesin School: Genres, Techniques, Style».

She is the author of a number of papers presented at international and all‑Russian conferences (Moscow, Penza):

• «On Teaching “Musical Form” in Performance Faculties in Higher Education (Using the Example of the Specialisation “Folk Instruments”)», paper at the international scholarly conference of postgraduate students and students, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 28–29 March 2013.
• «The Phenomenon of Performing Phrasing in the Course on Musical Form», paper at the all‑Russian scholarly conference of postgraduate students and students, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 3–4 April 2014.
• «Optimising the Teaching of Theoretical Disciplines in Performance Faculties within the Framework of Issues in Academic Music Education», paper at the international scholarly conference «Musicology in the Twenty‑First Century: Paths and Quest», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 14–17 October 2014.
• «The Phenomenon of Performing Phrasing and Articulation in the Course on Musical Form» [electronic resource], Third international online conference «Musicology in a Unified Cultural Space», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, URL: http://gnesinstudy.ru/, March 2015.
• «“My Moscow – It Lives and Warms...” The Trilogy of Suites about Moscow by K. Volkov», paper at the international scholarly‑practical conference dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Theory of Music Department of the Penza College of Arts named after Arkhangelsky, Penza, 2 November 2016.
• «Symphonies for Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments by G. V. Chernov: Tradition and Innovation» [electronic resource], international online conference «Musicology in a Unified Cultural Space», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, URL: http://gnesinstudy.ru/, December 2016.
• «The International Student Research Competition in Musical Art», paper at the conference «Musicology in the Cultural Context» (round‑table discussion), Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2 November 2018.
• «“Serious” and “Non‑Serious” Music by N. Khondo», paper at the Twenty‑Fourth Gnesin Readings «Composers of the Gnesin House: Issues of Studying and Popularising the Heritage», Memorial Museum‑Apartment of El. F. Gnesina, 15 February 2019.

Publications:

• «Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn. On the Bicentenary of the Great Romantics», in Materialy gorodskikh teoreticheskikh konferentsiy 2010 i 2011 gg. («Proceedings of the City Theoretical Conferences of 2010 and 2011»), ed. M. A. Rybachkova, reviewer E. V. Makartseva, Penza, 2011.
• «On Teaching “Musical Form” in Performance Faculties in Higher Education (Using the Example of the Specialisation “Folk Instruments”)», in Issledovaniya molodykh muzykovedov («Research of Young Musicologists»), ed. T. I. Naumenko, Moscow, 2013, pp. 211–217.
• «The Musical and Artistic World of Penza: Art, Local History, Folk Crafts. On the 350th Anniversary of Penza», in Materialy pervoy otkrytoy mezhdunarodnoy nauchno‑prakticheskoy konferentsii («Proceedings of the First Open International Scholarly‑Practical Conference»), ed. M. A. Rybachkova, reviewer E. V. Makartseva, Penza, 2013.
• «The Phenomenon of Performing Phrasing in the Course on Musical Form», in Issledovaniya molodykh muzykovedov («Research of Young Musicologists»), ed. T. I. Naumenko, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2014, pp. 230–239.
• «The Muses of Art on the Opera Stage: Articles, Memoirs, Film Script...», in Materialy vtoroy otkrytoy mezhdunarodnoy nauchno‑prakticheskoy konferentsii («Proceedings of the Second Open International Scholarly‑Practical Conference»), ed. M. A. Rybachkova, reviewer E. V. Makartseva, Penza, 2014.
• «The Phenomenon of Performing Phrasing and Articulation in the Course on Musical Form», in Teoriya muzyki: aktual’nyye voprosy metodiki prepodavaniya («Music Theory: Topical Issues in Teaching Methodology»), ed. E. S. Derunets, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2015, pp. 70–84.
• «The Art of Russian Romanticism: Tradition and Innovation», in Iskusstvo russkogo romantizma: traditsii i novatorstvo («The Art of Russian Romanticism: Tradition and Innovation»), proceedings of the Third Open International Scholarly‑Practical Conference, issue 5, ed. M. A. Rybachkova, reviewer E. V. Makartseva, Penza, 2015.
• «Symphonies for Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments by G. V. Chernov: Tradition and Innovation», Muzyka i vremya («Music and Time»), 2016, no. 7, pp. 30–35.
• «“My Moscow – It Lives and Warms...” The Trilogy of Suites about Moscow by K. Volkov», in K 50‑letiyu otdeleniya «Teoriya muzyki» PKI: pedagogika, ispolnitel’stvo, tvorchestvo («On the 50th Anniversary of the Theory of Music Department of the Penza College of Arts: Pedagogy, Performance, Creativity»), proceedings of the Fourth Open International Scholarly‑Practical Conference, issue 6, ed. E. Yu. Sevast’yanova, Penza, 2016, pp. 57–68.
• «The Trilogy of Suites about Moscow by K. Volkov: Features of the Artistic Concept», Muzyka i vremya, 2017, no. 5, pp. 15–22.
• «A Turning Epoch in the Culture of the Penza Region (1900–1920): On the 135th Anniversary of Professional Music Education in Penza and the Centenary of the Great Russian Revolution», in Materialy vtoroy otkrytoy vserossiyskoy i pervoy gorodskoy studencheskoy otkrytykh nauchno‑prakticheskikh konferentsiy («Proceedings of the Second Open All‑Russian and First City Student Open Scholarly‑Practical Conferences»), issue 7, ed. M. A. Rybachkova, reviewer E. V. Makartseva, Penza, 2018.