In 2013, she graduated from the Gnesin State Musical College with a degree in Folk Choir Director. In 2017, she graduated from the Historical-Theoretical-Compositional Faculty of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music (Department of Ethnomusicology). In 2022, she defended her Master’s thesis titled «Maslenitsa Songs of Left-Bank Traditions of the Middle Desna Region: Typology and Areology of Melodies».
Her main research interests are connected with the folk musical culture of the traditions of the Russian Southwest, particularly with the areological study of phenomena in calendar musical folklore.
Since 2016, she has been a leading specialist at the E. V. Gippius Musical-Ethnographic Center (MEC) of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. She has been participating in musical-folkloric expeditions since 2014 (Bryansk, Kursk, Belgorod, and Smolensk regions).
Since 2016, she has been the choirmaster of the exemplary ensemble «Yakhot Music Theater», whose main goal is to engage youth with folklore through various modern forms, including staging performances in the «Folk Fusion» genre. As a choirmaster, she participated in the creation of projects such as: the performance «Songs of Kot Bayun», the musical «A Real Adventure», the plastic fantasy «WeElement», and the musical-drama performance «Dead Souls».
Publications, Research Papers, Collections:
- Shepeleva A. E. Maslenitsa Songs of Left-Bank Traditions of the Middle Desna Region: Specifics of the Realization of the Main Rhythmic Type // Questions of Ethnomusicology. 2020. No. 1. pp. 52-66;
- Shepeleva A. E. Maslenitsa Songs of the Bryansk-Sumy Borderland: Modal Forms and Their Geography // Questions of Ethnomusicology. 2022. No. 1. pp. 130-143.
