Violetta Yunusova

Doctor of Art Criticism, Professor. Born in Moscow. In 1971, she graduated from the music school in Vladivostok, in 1976—from the Ufa Institute of Arts (Music History and Theory Department), in 1981—completed a full-time postgraduate study at the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography with a degree in ethnomusicology (folklore sector). She defended her Candidate dissertation “Problems of Formation in Azerbaijani Instrumental Mugham Improvisations” (1982), and then her Doctoral Dissertation “The Creative Process in the Classical Music of the East” (scientific consultant—E. V. Nazaykinskiy, 1995). Since 1992—Associate Professor of the World’s Musical Cultures Department at Tchai­kovsky Moscow State Conservatory, since 1995—Associate Professor of the Foreign Music History Department, since 1997—Professor. She teaches courses of the musical culture of the Near and Middle East, the history of foreign music, the history of non-European musical cultures. Scien­tific director of the International Scientific Con­ference “Music of the Nations of the World: Problems of Study” (Moscow Conservatory, 2004–2015). As a participant and leader, she carried out about 50 musical and ethnographic expeditions to Transcaucasia and Central Asia. Member of the International Council for Tra­di­tional Music at UNESCO (ICTM), Member of the Council of the Research Group of Turkic-speaking Peoples ICTM.