Anton A. Rovner

Candidate of Art Criticism, PhD (USA), member of the Union of Composers of Russia, faculty member at the Department of Interdisciplinary Specializations of Musicologists at the Moscow State Conservatory. Earned a Bachelor of Mu­sic and a Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School in the United States. In 1989–1990, he completed an internship at the Mos­cow Con­servatory. From 1994 to 1997 studied com­position at Rutgers University (New Jersey), receiving a PhD in 1998. His works have been per­formed at numerous music festivals, including the “Moscow Autumn,” “Moscow Forum,” “Alter­nativa,” “Sergei Oskolkov and His Friends,” “Sound Ways,” “From Avant-Garde to the Present Day,” the “Pythian Games,” the Perm Festival of Contemporary Music, the “Days of New Music” in Chisinau, and the American Festival of Microtonal Music. Since 2002, he has been working at the Department of Interdisciplinary Specializations for Musicologists at the Mos­cow Conservatory. In 2012, he defended his Candidate of Sciences dissertation under the supervision of V. N. Kholopova. He has published articles in journals such as “Music Academy,” “Music and Time,” “Musicology,” “Problems of Mu­sic Science,” “Journal of Fine Arts,” and other periodicals in Russia and abroad.