Musicologist and teacher.
In 2011 she graduated from the Krasnoyarsk Ivanov‑Radkevich College of Arts with a degree in Music Theory, and from 2011 to 2016 she studied Musicology at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music. Her diploma thesis was entitled «Eugene Onegin by P. I. Tchaikovsky in the Mirror of Musicological and Directorial Interpretations».
She is currently a postgraduate student at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in the speciality 17.00.02 «Musical Art», supervised by Professor Irina P. Susidko. Her dissertation topic is «The Musical Theatre of Georges Aperghis: Gesture – Word – Sound».
Tatiana O. Yakovleva is an active researcher who regularly presents papers at conferences and publishes scholarly articles.
She also works as a music journalist, contributing regularly to «Nezavisimaya gazeta», the journal «Muzykalnaya zhizn», and online platforms Belcanto.ru and Colta.ru, and is a member of the team behind the contemporary‑music website Stravinsky.online.
She has taught at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music since September 2016.
Her professional interests include:
- new music theatre;
- musical culture of the 20th and 21st centuries;
- the specifics of contemporary directing in opera;
- problems of inter‑art synthesis.
Conference presentations:
- All‑Russian (International) Student and Postgraduate Conference «Research by Young Musicologists», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (April 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017);
- International Conference «Tchaikovsky and the 21st Century: Dialogues in Time and Space», for the 175th anniversary of the composer (November 2014);
- International Student and Postgraduate Conference «Music in the Modern World: Culture, Art, Education», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (November 2014, 2016);
- International Scholarly and Practical Conference «Opera in the Contemporary Music Theatre» (November 2013, October 2015, 2017);
- 28th Creative Gathering of Young Researchers, Performers, Composers, and Teachers «In the Artistic Space of Time: Ideas and Problems. Music», Union of Moscow Composers (October 2016);
- 7th International Conference VOLUME‑7 «Theatre without Borders», GITIS (December 2016);
- Youth Forum «Dialogues in the Space of Music and Theatre», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (March 2017).
Lectures:
- «In Search of Lost Time: Eugene Onegin in Productions by Stefan Herheim and Mariusz Treliński», Krasnoyarsk College of Arts, 20 January 2015;
- «The Musical Theatre of Georges Aperghis», within the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory project «Contemporary Music Week at SNTO», 10 April 2017;
- «The Musical Theatre of Georges Aperghis: Phonemes and Gestures», Krasnoyarsk College of Arts, 10 May 2017;
- «Georges Aperghis’s Little Red Riding Hood», creative laboratory «Acoustic Reading» for composers, directors, and musicians, Moscow, 9 December 2017.
Professional distinctions:
- First‑degree laureate diploma for a paper at the Moscow student and postgraduate conference «Student Science» (December 2016);
- First‑degree laureate diploma in the 26th International Student Research Competition in the Arts, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (April 2016);
- laureate of the All‑Russian award «Young Talents of Russia» (2015);
- Second‑degree laureate diploma for a paper at the Moscow student and postgraduate conference «Student Science» (December 2015);
- diploma‑winner of the All‑Russian competition «Music of the Duet», piano‑duet category (2014);
- Second‑degree diploma‑winner in the competition «Moscow, Music, PR!» (2013).
Within the framework of SNTO activities:
- creative laboratory «Gnesinslab» for musicologists and music journalists, 15–17 February 2018 (organiser and curator, together with journalist Irina Sevastyanova);
- Youth Forum «Dialogues in the Space of Music and Theatre» with invited directors, conductors, theatre scholars, and musicologists, 28–30 March 2017 (initiator and curator);
- intellectual project «The Glass Bead Game», from December 2015 to the present (creator and host);
- «Contemporary Music from A to Z», Monday lecture series, 2016–2017 academic year (concept author and organiser);
- «Opera.Play»: screenings and discussions of contemporary opera productions, 2014–2015 (concept author and host);
- round table «What Is Happening to Opera?» with invited guests Alexei Syumak (composer), Philipp Chizhevsky (conductor), Natalia Anastasieva‑Leiner (director), and Vyacheslav Uvarov (theatre scholar, organiser), 2015;
- organisation of meetings with composers, directors, musicians, and journalists from 2014 to 2018, including directors Vasily Barkhatov, Dmitry Belyanushkin, Heiner Goebbels; composers Sergei Nevski, Yaroslav Sudzilovsky, Alexei Larin, Vladimir Tarnopolsky, Nikolai Khrust, Alexei Sysoev; pianist Ekaterina Mechetina; and cellist Boris Andrianov.
