Tatiana S. Bershadskaya

Tatyana Bershadskaya teaches in the department of Theory of music and heads the Section of Harmony at the St. Petersburg conservatory. In 1986 she received her Grand Ph.D degree in musicology, in 1979 became Professor, and in 1992 she was awarded the title of the Honoured Artist of the russian Federation. She is a disciple of Yu. Tyulin and Kh. Kushnaryev and an adherent of N. Privano’s educational principles. Her research field is pitch organisation in music. Prof. Dr. Bershadskaya concentrates on the problems of harmony, tonality, monody, and some aspects of the structure of verbal and music languages. She began her teaching career in 1942 and since 1953 has been on the teaching staff at the St. Petersburg conservatory. Prof. Dr. Bershadskaya has directed about seventy graduate and about twenty postgraduate students in preparing their master’s theses and doctoral dissertations. Among her former students are leading musicologists, professors and teachers at the conservatories of St. Petersburg, Tallinn, and Petrozavodsk. She is the author of monographs on russian folk song and the study of harmony, textbooks, tutorials, and more than thirty scholarly articles.