Vladimir V. Dudin

Musicologist, music critic and lecturer. Gra­duated from Glinka Nizhniy Novgorod State Con­servatory (Tamara Levaya’s class) (thesis “The Music of Mikhail Kuzmin”). Published over 800 articles in the newspapers “Sankt-Peter­­burg­skie Vedomosti,” “Kommersant,” “Rossiyskaya Ga­zeta,” “Nezavisimaya Gazeta,” and “Forbes,” as well as in the magazines “Muzykalnaya zhizn’,” “Pe­ters­burg Theatre Magazine,” and in the Nor­wegian magazine “Klassisk.” He interviewed pro­minent figures in the musical theater and phil­harmonic scene, including Yuri Temirkanov, Mariss Jansons, Valery Gergiev, Daniel Baren­boim, Teodor Currentzis, Plácido Domingo, Anna Ne­trebko, Vladimir Atlantov, Elena Obraztsova, Ta­mara Sinyavskaya, Edita Gruberová, Teresa Ber­ganza, Renata Scotto, Piotr Beczala, Gidon Kremer, Evgeny Kissin, Sergei Slonimsky, Krzysz­tof Penderecki, Dmitry Chernyakov, and many others. From 2005 to 2008, he was the author and host of the program “Musical History” on Channel Five. From 2010 to 2018, he was the editor-in-chief of the “Conservatory” newspaper of Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conser­vatory. From 2021 to 2025—assistant director of the Musical Theater of the Republic of Karelia. Over the years, he was a member of the expert council of the Golden Mask festival, the jury of the Harlequin festival and other Russian theatre festivals and competitions.