Evgeniya V. Khazdan
Candidate of Science (Art Criticism), ethnomusicologist, music critic. After graduating from Rimsky-Korsakov Leningrad State Conservatory in composition (1989) subsequently completed her postgraduate studies in Art History at the Russian Institute of Art History (St. Petersburg). In 2008 she defended her dissertation “Nigun as a phenomenon of traditional Jewish music culture” at Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. Prior to March 2014 worked at the Organology Department at the Russian Institute of Art History, since then she has been pursuing a career as an independent researcher.
