Svetlana I. Savenko
Doctor of Art Criticism, Leading Researcher at the Music History Department, the State Institute for Art Studies, Professor at the Contemporary Music Department, Tchaikovsky State Moscow Conservatory. The major fields of her specialization are Russian music, the 20th century music including avant-garde and contemporary art. A series of works are connected with oeuvre of Igor Stravinsky: the monograph “The World of Stravinsky” (2001, also published in German, 2014), the annotated publications of “Chroniques de ma vie” and “Poétique musicale” (2004, 2nd edition — 2012), biography “I. F. Stravinsky” (2004). She performed as a soprano soloist of ensemble “Studio of the New Music” (Moscow) and with pianist Yuri Polubelov. She participated in many festivals in Russia and abroad and toured in Ukraine, Belarus’, Slovakia, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Great Britain, Italy, and USA.