Irina I. Vasiruk
Graduated from Samara Music College (1985), Petrozavodsk branch of Rimsky-Korsakov Leningrad State Conservatory (1991) and made postgraduate at Astrakhan State Conservatory (2007). In 2008, she defended her candidate dissertation “Artistic and meaningful features of the fugue in the works of Russian composers of the last third of the 20th century” (Sobinov Saratov State Conservatory), scientific supervisor—L. P. Kazantseva. Since 1994 Irina Vasiruk has been teaching at the Department of History and Theory of Music of Volgograd Institute of Arts and Culture. Since 2022 she has been working as Associate Professor at the History and Theory of Music Department, and since 2023—Associate Professor at the Piano and Musicology Department, Samara State Institute of Culture. Member of the scientific “Laboratory for Musical Content.” Sphere of her professional interests are artistic-content and compositional features of fugues and polyphonic cycles of modern composers, interaction of arts, the creative process, works of modern Russian composers, the reflection of Christian images and religious themes in music. Author of the monograph “Modern Fugue: Content aspects” (2012), more than 60 articles and textbooks.