Lyudmila M. Kokoreva
Musicologist, Doctor of Arts, Honored Art Worker of Russia, Professor of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. Member of the Union of Composers of the Russian Federation. In 1956 she graduated with a gold medal from the piano department of the Central Ten-Year Music School at Lysenko Lviv State Conservatory (class of D. R. Yudelevich). She continued her studies at Moscow Conservatory at the
Faculty of Theory and Composition, graduating in 1962. Optionally studied at the piano department in the class of I. R. Klyachko. Since 1970—teacher, since 1973—Associate Professor, since 1992—Professor at the Department of the History of Foreign Music of Moscow Conservatory. In 1986, she published the first monograph in Russia on the work of a French composer (“Darius Miyo. Zhizn’ i tvorchestvo” [Darius Milhaud. Life and Works], Moscow, 1986), which became a doctoral dissertation (defended at Moscow Conservatory in 1990). She trained at the Paris National Conservatory of Music and Dance, at the French Center for Welcome and International Exchanges (EGIDE) as a scholarship from the French Government to work on a monograph about C. Debussy. She collaborated as a freelance writer with the All-Union Radio, performed in musical programs at the “Radio Orpheus,” on television (Kultura TV channel). Author of monographs, articles, chapters in textbooks and anthologies, more than 170 scientific papers.