Natalya Yu. Plotnikova
Doctor of Art Criticism, Professor at the Music Theory Department, Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, Leading Researcher at the State Institute for Art Studies Graduated with honors from the Moscow Conservatory (1992) and made postgraduate research under professor V. V. Protopopov’s supervision. In 1996 she defended her candidate dissertation “Ways of Polyphonic Treatment of Old Russian Chants in the Sacred Music of the 19th and early 20th Century,” while in 2013—her doctoral dissertation “Russian ‘Partesny’ Polyphony of the Late 17th—mid-18th Century: Source Study, History, Theory.” The main area of her scholarly interests is the history and theory of Russian sacred music of the 17–20th centuries, source studies, polyphony. Author of four monographs, two textbooks, and about 150 articles, including those for the “Orthodox Encyclopedia;” editor-compiler of four issues of the collection “Russian Musical Baroque: Tendencies and Perspectives of Research.” In recent years her attention has been focused on the music of the Russian baroque, the musical heritage of the Era of Peter the Great, the works of Nikolay Diletsky, Vasily Titov and other composers of the late 17th and 18th century. She is also the editor of the Complete Works by Tchaikovsky (Series 5. Sacred Works).
