Natalia A. Braginskaya

Doctor of Art Criticism, Associate Professor, Head of the Western Music History Department at Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory. N. A. Braginskaya graduated from Leningrad Conservatory, having postgraduate studies there under professor N. I. Degtyareva. Candidate of Art Criticism (1991), Doctor of Art Criticism (2024). Since 1992 she has been teaching at the Western Music History Department at St. Petersburg Conservatory, in 2012–2016 she was Dean of the Musicology Faculty, in 2016–2019 — Vice-Rector for Research at St. Petersburg Conservatory. She is an author of the monographs “Music Dialogue of Igor Stravinsky” (2023), “Stravinsky’s Neoclassical Concertos” (2008) and more than 150 scientific articles in the leading Russian and foreign academic journals and collections (published by DSCH, Brepols, Sorbonne Université, Indiana University Press, Cambridge University Press, etc.), including “Acta musicologica”, a journal of the International Musicological Society (IMS). A member of IMS, N. A. Braginskaya is co-chair of the IMS Study Group “Stravinsky: Between East and West.” Scholarship student of the Paul Sacher Foundation (2011). She played a key role in the history of sensational find of the “Funeral Song” op. 5 by Igor Stravinsky; she carried out the first academic presentation of the work (2015) and scientific leadership of reconstructing the score, providing the world premiere of the piece (2016, under Valery Gergiev) as well as its first publication (2017, Boosey and Hawkes, with preface and editorial notes by N. A. Braginskaya).