Sayida Z. Iskhakova

Candidate of Art Criticism, Professor at the Subdepartment of Composition, Zagir Ismagilov Ufa State Institute of Arts, (academic title – Associate Professor). In 1994 graduated from the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music with a degree in musicology, and in 1997 completed her post­graduate studies at the same academy (super­visor—T. V. Tsaregradskaya). In 1998, at the Gne­sins Russian Academy of Music, she defended her dissertation for the degree of Can­di­date of Art Criticism on the topic “The ‘non-clas­sical’ sound space: musical composition of the early 20th century in the context of the ideas of the time” (based on this material, a monograph was published in 2009). From 1994 to 1998, she taught at the Gnesins Russian Academy of Mu­sic; since 1999 to the present, she has been teaching at Zagir Ismagilov Ufa State Institute of Arts (since 2004—as Associate Professor at the Com­position Department). Her research in­te­rests are related to issues concerning the deve­lop­ment of European music history over the past ten centuries, as well as the music of the Wes­tern European Middle Ages and the Renaissance. She has about 35 scholarly pub­li­cations. Lau­reate of the Soros Prize (Mos­cow, 1995; the Soros Foundation has been declared an organization whose activities are considered undesirable on the territory of the Russian Fe­deration), Laureate of the First All-Russian com­petition of scientific works of young scientists in the field of musical art “Russian Science of Music: Words of Young Scientists” (Kazan, 2004).