Tatyana A. Sapegina

She was born in 1984 in Shchyokino, Tula Region. She graduated from the Piano Department of the Tula Dargomyzhsky College of Music in 2004, from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music with a degree in musicology in 2010, and from postgraduate school at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in 2014.

From 2006 to 2009 she worked as a freelance correspondent for the programme Blok NOT, and from 2009 to 2012 as senior editor in the News Department of the TV channel Kultura. At the same time she wrote articles for the newspaper Muzykalnoe obozrenie.

In 2012–2013 she held a research grant from the Russian Humanities Research Foundation (project no. 12‑34‑01336 «From the Avant‑Garde to Mass Culture: Classical Music in Animation»).

She has taken part in All‑Russian and international scholarly conferences.

Publications:

• «The Sound Aesthetics of Golden‑Age Hollywood Cartoons: Audiovisual Clichés and Humour», Muzyka i vremya, no. 10, 2014, pp. 31–36;
• «Illustrated Music: Alexander Alexeieff’s Night on Bald Mountain», Muzykovedenie, no. 5, 2014, pp. 40–48;
• «The Virtuoso Cat and the Singing Rabbit: Classical Music in Golden‑Age Hollywood Cartoons», in Musical Scholarship in the Twenty‑First Century: Paths and Perspectives, proceedings of the international conference dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 14–17 October 2014, Moscow, 2015, pp. 442–452;
• «Fantasia (1940): Walt Disney’s Educational Media Project», in Music in the Space of Media Culture, collected papers from the Second International Scholarly and Practical Conference, 13 April 2015, Krasnodar, 2015, pp. 50–54;
• «Dialogue Across the Ocean: Tchaikovsky’s Ballet Suite Through Walt Disney’s Eyes», Vestnik Akademii Russkogo baleta imeni A. Ya. Vaganovoy, issue 38(3), 2015, pp. 147–153;
• «Mickey’s Career: From Steamboat Willie (1928) to Fantasia (1940)», paper for the Seventh International Scholarly Conference «Entertainment and Art», State Institute for Art Studies, 16–18 November 2016.

Translations of articles:

• Claudia Gorbman, «Listening to Film Music», in Musical Scholarship in the Twenty‑First Century: Paths and Perspectives, proceedings of the international conference dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 14–17 October 2014, Moscow, 2015, pp. 453–466;
• «I Owe Everything to Walt Disney. He Gave Me My First Chance in Hollywood»: An Interview with Carl Stalling by Michael Barrier, Milton Gray, and Bill Spicer, Kinovedcheskie zapiski, no. 110, 2015, pp. 267–282.