In 1973, he graduated from the Pskov Rimsky-Korsakov Music College, followed by the Leningrad State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in 1978, and completed his postgraduate studies in 1985 (his academic advisor at both the conservatory and during his postgraduate studies was E. A. Ruchievskaya). He began his teaching career in 1977 at the Leningrad Mussorgsky Music College. Subsequently, he worked at the Kazan State Zhiganov Conservatory and Tver State University.
In 1987, he defended his Candidate of Sciences dissertation at the Leningrad Conservatory, titled «The Formation of the Artistic Text in the Works of P. I. Tchaikovsky (Based on Manuscripts from the 1890s)».
Since 1994, he has been a faculty member at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, serving in the Department of Music History (and as an Associate Professor since 1999). He teaches courses on the «History of Russian Music» (19th — early 20th centuries) for musicologists and performers, as well as specialized courses including «Musical Source Studies and Textology» (for musicologists at the specialist, bachelor, and master levels), «Methods of Teaching Music History Disciplines» (for musicologists at the specialist, bachelor, and master levels), and «Archival and Bibliographic Internship». He also supervises master’s theses.
His primary research interests include Russian music of the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as issues in source studies and textology. His work has been published in the journal Sovetskaya Muzyka (Musical Academy), as well as in academic collections by the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, the State Institute for Art Studies (GII), and the Moscow, St. Petersburg (Leningrad), and Rostov Conservatories.
He has contributed to the development of educational and methodological materials for teachers and students of children’s music schools and music colleges, focusing on music literature. He is the author of educational and methodological commentaries for audiovisual piano scores of the operas «The Snow Maiden», «Eugene Onegin», and «Ruslan and Ludmila» (Moscow: MID Landgraf, 2007, 3. 88 printer’s sheets).
