Dana A. Nagina

She was born in Volgograd.

She graduated from the Music College affiliated with the Volgograd Institute of Arts named after P. A. Serebryakov (Department of Music Theory).

In 2010 she graduated with honours from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, where she studied with I. P. Susidko (major subject, analysis of musical works), L. L. Gerver (polyphony, analysis of literary texts), L. S. Dyachkova and N. S. Gulyanitskaya (harmony), and M. G. Raku, N. V. Zabolotnaya, and Yu. V. Vasil’yev (music history).

In 2013 she completed postgraduate studies at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music and defended her Candidate of Art Studies dissertation on «Mozart’s Concert Arias in the Context of Vocal Art of the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century» (scientific supervisor: Doctor of Art Studies, Professor I. P. Susidko).

She began teaching in 2004 at the Voskresenie Children’s School of Arts (Volgograd).

In 2009–2013 she worked as an editor at the Moscow International House of Music.

Since 2013 she has taught the following subjects at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music:

• Musical form and analysis of musical works.
• Polyphony.
• History of musical theatre.
• Contemporary opera and ballet theatre.
• Analysis of opera and ballet productions.
• Genres and forms of Baroque music.
• Supervision of bachelor’s and master’s theses.

D. A. Nagina is the author of the monograph «Mozart’s Concert Arias and the Vocal Art of His Time» (2015), the teaching aids «Opera and Concert Aria in the Works of Mozart» (2017) and «Simple Forms in Vocal Music of the Classical and Romantic Periods: A Study Guide on Musical Form for Teachers and Students of Secondary and Higher Education Institutions» (2019), as well as over twenty scholarly articles on vocal and instrumental concert genres of the Classical era and on the theory of musical form.

D. A. Nagina gives masterclasses and public lectures as part of the «University Saturdays» project. She contributes to the organisation of several regular scholarly projects at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, including the international scholarly conference «The Technique of Musical Composition» and the international online conference «Musicology in a Unified Cultural Space» (http://gnesinstudy.ru/).

Since 2017 she has served as executive editor of the online scholarly journal of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music «Sovremennyye problemy muzykoznaniya» («Contemporary Musicology Issues») (http://gnesinsjournal.ru/).

She regularly presents papers at international and all‑Russian scholarly conferences at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatoire, the Ippolitov‑Ivanov State Music and Pedagogical Institute, and the Volgograd Conservatory named after P. A. Serebryakov.

Her scholarly interests include the history of opera and ballet, music theatre on the contemporary stage, the history and theory of vocal art, and musical form and analysis of musical works.

In 2021 she received the badge of honour «Molodoy uchenyy» («Young Scholar») from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Information on the teacher’s publications and participation in competitions, conferences, festivals, etc.

Publications:

Scholarly works:

• D. A. Knyazeva (Nagina), «Ethical and Aesthetic Ideals of the Northern Renaissance and Their Realisation in the Visual and Musical Arts of the Era», in Sbornik nauchnykh studencheskikh rabot V. M. I. I. named after P. A. Serebryakov, Volgograd, 2006, pp. 28–38.
• D. A. Nagina, «Concert Arias for Aloysia Lange: On the Phenomenon of the Genre», Muzyka i vremya («Music and Time»), 2009, no. 9, pp. 2–7 (0.7 printer’s sheets).
• D. A. Nagina, «Mozart’s Vocal Ideal», in Problemy khudozhestvennoy interpretatsii («Problems of Artistic Interpretation»), proceedings of the all‑Russian scholarly conference (9–10 April 2009), Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2010, pp. 104–114 (0.6 printer’s sheets).
• D. A. Nagina, «Mozart’s Concert and Opera Arias: Paths of Intersection and Divergence» [electronic resource], Vestnik Rossiyskoy akademii muzyki imeni Gnesinykh («Bulletin of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music»), 2011, issue 1, URL: http://www.vestnikram.ru/issue.php?Year=2011&Number=1 (0.8 printer’s sheets).
• D. A. Nagina, «Mozart’s Concert Scene “Popoli di Tessaglia” for Aloysia Weber: Conquering Italy», in Issledovaniya molodykh muzykovedov («Research of Young Musicologists»), ed. T. I. Naumenko, issue 5, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2011, pp. 62–69 (0.4 printer’s sheets).
• D. A. Nagina, «Mozart’s Concert Arias: Features of the Genre», Starinnaya muzyka («Early Music»), 2013, no. 2, pp. 22–25 (0.5 printer’s sheets).
• D. A. Nagina, «The Concert Aria: History of Concepts of the Term and Genre», Muzykovedeniye («Musicology»), 2013, no. 8, pp. 3–10 (0.8 printer’s sheets).
• D. A. Nagina, «Mozart and the Concert‑Academy in the Musical Culture of the Classical Era», Uchenyye zapiski Rossiyskoy akademii muzyki imeni Gnesinykh («Scholarly Notes of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music»), 2015, no. 4, pp. 44–52 (0.6 printer’s sheets).
• D. A. Nagina, Mozart’s Concert Arias and the Vocal Art of His Time, monograph, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2015, 180 pp. (11.5 printer’s sheets).
• D. A. Nagina, «Intrigue or Tradition? (On the History of Inserted Arias)», in Opera v muzykal’nom teatre: istoriya i sovremennost’ («Opera in the Musical Theatre: History and Modernity»), ed. I. P. Susidko, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music and State Institute for Art Studies, 2016, pp. 61–70 (0.7 printer’s sheets).
• D. A. Nagina, «“One Can Always Cut, but Adding Is Not So Easy”: Mozart on Composing Arias», in Tekhnika muzykal’nogo sochineniya v raz’yasneniyakh avtora («The Technique of Musical Composition in the Composer’s Explanations»), proceedings of the international scholarly conference (16–17 April 2015), ed. L. L. Gerver, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2016, pp. 83–94.
• D. A. Nagina, «Mozart and the Italian Operatic Tradition», in Professional’naya podgotovka vokalistov: problemy, opyt, perspektivy («Professional Training of Vocalists: Problems, Experience, Prospects»), issue 9, ed. E. V. Kruglova, Moscow, Litera Skripta, 2017, pp. 41–55 (0.5 printer’s sheets).
• D. A. Nagina, «Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Aloysia Weber: A Love Story in Letters and Sounds», in Aktual’nyye voprosy muzykal’nogo obrazovaniya i iskusstva («Topical Issues of Music Education and Art»), eds. O. Yu. Osadchaya and O. V. Shmakova, Volgograd, MIRIA, 2017, pp. 101–111 (0.5 printer’s sheets).
• I. P. Susidko and D. A. Nagina, «The All‑Russian Scholarly Conference “The Technique of Musical Composition: One’s Own and the Other’s” at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music», Uchenyye zapiski Rossiyskoy akademii muzyki imeni Gnesinykh, 2017, no. 3 (22), pp. 89–93 (0.25 printer’s sheets).
• D. A. Nagina, «On the Musical Ideas of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in E‑flat Major in the Context of “One’s Own” and “the Other’s”» [electronic resource], Sovremennyye problemy muzykoznaniya («Contemporary Musicology Issues»), 2017, no. 2, pp. 41–61, URL: http://gnesinsjournal.ru/archives/315 (0.6 printer’s sheets).
• D. A. Nagina, «On the Problems and Methods of Analysing Vocal Works», in Sovremennyye aspekty dialoga literatury, muzyki i izobrazitel’nogo iskusstva v prostranstve otechestvennoy kultury («Contemporary Aspects of the Dialogue of Literature, Music, and Visual Art in Russian Culture»), proceedings of the international scholarly‑practical conference (25 October 2018), Krasnodar, KGIK, 2018, pp. 417–423.
• D. A. Nagina, «Sonata Form in Vocal Music: Coincidence or Regularity?», Uchenyye zapiski Rossiyskoy akademii muzyki imeni Gnesinykh, 2019, no. 1, pp. 27–43.
• D. A. Nagina and I. S. Zakharkbekova, «Musicology Today: The View of a Young Researcher», Uchenyye zapiski Rossiyskoy akademii muzyki imeni Gnesinykh, 2019, no. 2, pp. 79–81.
• D. A. Nagina, «The Genre of the Concert Symphony in the Works of Haydn and Mozart» [electronic resource], Sovremennyye problemy muzykoznaniya, 2019, no. 3, pp. 2–23, URL: http://gnesinsjournal.ru/archives/2040 (1 printer’s sheet).
• D. A. Nagina, «Mozart the “Italian”? The Myth of a Myth», in Mozart v prostranstve i vremeni («Mozart in Space and Time»), proceedings of the scholarly conference, ed. S. G. Murataliyeva, Moscow, Nauchno‑izdatel’skiy tsentr «Moskovskaya konservatoriya», 2019, pp. 80–91 (0.8 printer’s sheets).
• D. A. Nagina, «Professionals and Amateurs: On the First Performers of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte», in Opera v muzykal’nom teatre: istoriya i sovremennost’ («Opera in the Musical Theatre: History and Modernity»), proceedings of the international scholarly conference (11–15 November 2019), vol. 1, ed. I. P. Susidko, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2019, pp. 239–248 (0.6 printer’s sheets).
• D. A. Nagina and I. S. Zakharkbekova, «The International Scholarly Forum “Opera in the Musical Theatre: History and Modernity”» [electronic resource], Sovremennyye problemy muzykoznaniya, 2019, special issue, pp. 3–80, URL: http://gnesinsjournal.ru/archives/2121 (2.4 printer’s sheets).

Scholarly‑methodological works:

• D. A. Nagina, Opera and Concert Aria in the Works of Mozart, teaching aid, Moscow, Probel‑2000, 2017, 36 pp. (2 printer’s sheets).
• Simple Forms in Vocal Music of the Classical and Romantic Periods: A Study Guide on Musical Form for Teachers and Students of Secondary and Higher Education Institutions, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2019, 140 pp., illustrated.

Participation in scholarly conferences:

• «Mozart’s Vocal Ideal», paper at the all‑Russian scholarly conference «Problemy khudozhestvennoy interpretatsii» («Problems of Artistic Interpretation»), Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 9–10 April 2009.
• «Mozart’s Concert Scene “Popoli di Tessaglia” for Aloysia Weber: Conquering Italy», paper at the all‑Russian conference «Issledovaniya molodykh muzykovedov» («Research of Young Musicologists»), Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, April 2011.
• «Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on the Vocal Art», paper at the Third international online conference «Musicology in a Unified Cultural Space», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2014.
• «“One Can Always Cut, but Adding Is Not So Easy”: Mozart on Composing Arias», paper at the international scholarly conference «The Technique of Musical Composition in the Composer’s Explanations», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 16–17 April 2015.
• «Intrigue or Tradition? (On the History of Inserted Arias)», paper at the international scholarly conference «Opera in the Musical Theatre: History and Modernity», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music and State Institute for Art Studies, October 2015.
• «Mozart and the Concert‑Academy in the Musical Culture of the Classical Era», paper at the Fourth international online conference «Musicology in a Unified Cultural Space», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2016.
• «Mozart and the Italian Operatic Tradition», paper at the international scholarly‑practical conference «Professional Training of Vocalists: Problems, Experience, Prospects», Ippolitov‑Ivanov State Music and Pedagogical Institute, September 2016.
• «Mozart the “Italian”? The Myth of a Myth», paper at the scholarly conference «Mozart and His Time», Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatoire, 10–11 November 2016.
• «On the Musical Ideas of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in E‑flat Major in the Context of “One’s Own” and “the Other’s”», paper at the all‑Russian scholarly conference «The Technique of Musical Composition: One’s Own and the Other’s», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, April 2017.
• «Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Aloysia Weber: A Love Story in Letters and Sounds», paper at the scholarly conference «Aktual’nyye voprosy muzykal’nogo obrazovaniya i iskusstva» («Topical Issues of Music Education and Art»), Volgograd Conservatory named after P. A. Serebryakov, May 2017.
• «On the Problems and Methods of Analysing Vocal Works», paper at the international scholarly‑practical conference «Sovremennyye aspekty dialoga literatury, muzyki i izobrazitel’nogo iskusstva v prostranstve otechestvennoy kultury» («Contemporary Aspects of the Dialogue of Literature, Music, and Visual Art in Russian Culture»), Krasnodar, 25–26 October 2018.
• «“Sovremennyye problemy muzykoznaniya”: A New Electronic Scholarly Journal of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music», paper at the international scholarly conference «Musicology in the Cultural Context: Towards the 75th Anniversary of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music», 2 November 2018.
• «The Genre of the Sinfonia Concertante in the Austrian Tradition: Mozart and Haydn», paper at the international scholarly conference «Musical Culture of Austria and Russia: Dialogues and Parallels», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 29–30 November 2018.
• «Mozart and Aloysia Weber: A Love Story», paper at the Sixth all‑Russian scholarly‑practical conference «Music of Austria: From Its Origins to the Present», Penza, 8 November 2018.
• «The First Queen of the Night: Between Professionalism and Amateurism», paper at the Twelfth international scholarly‑practical conference «Professional Training of Vocalists: Problems, Experience, Prospects», Ippolitov‑Ivanov State Music and Pedagogical Institute, 23 September 2019.
• «Professionals and Amateurs: On the First Performers of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte», paper at the international scholarly conference «Opera in the Musical Theatre: History and Modernity», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 11–15 November 2019.