Viktor A. Licht

Violinist, musicologist, journalist. Born in 1944 in Moscow. Graduated from the Saratov Con­servatory as a violinist (1962–1969) and musi­co­logist (1971–1975), and completed his post­graduate studies at the Moscow Con­ser­vatory (1976–1979). He worked at music schools in Saratov and Balashikha, at the Saratov Con­servatory, at the magazine “Soviet Music” (since 1980 as a freelancer, and in 1986–1991 as a full-time employee), at the “Russian Music News­paper” (1991–1993), and at the music news agency “Tourne” (1993–1997). Since 1997 he lives in Israel. He worked at the sheet music pub­lishing house Israeli Music Publication. Since 1998, he has been a contributor to the Russian-language newspaper “Vesti,” and since 2000, he has been its editor and music columnist. He currently writes articles for various publica­tions, including the Moscow-based online maga­zine “Da capo al fine.”