Centre for Russian Music

Description

The Centre for Russian Music at Goldsmiths is a hub for research into Russian and Soviet music and musical culture.

The centre seeks, among other things, to explore Russian music’s complex political contexts, the lives and works of composers who are little known beyond Russia, and Russia’s historical and continuing connections with the wider musical world.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

1997

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University affiliation(s)

Goldsmiths, University of London
London

Partner Infrastructures

British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)

BASEES is the UK national learned society for the study of Russia, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The main activity of the association is the annual conference, held normally in Cambridge… read more about British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)

Norwich

Royal Musical Association (RMA)

The Royal Musical Association is the foremost society in the UK dedicated to the study of the study of all types of music, including but not limited to musicology, ethnomusicology, composition, digita… read more about Royal Musical Association (RMA)

Manchester

Partner Universities

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

University of Birmingham

University of Edinburgh

University of Manchester

Additional Partnerships

BBC Symphony Orchestra; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Royal Scottish National Orchestra; School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London; British Film Institute; Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London; Chandos; BMG; Boosey & Hawkes; Compozitor Publishers, St Petersburg, Russia; Centre for Contemporary Music, Moscow, Russia; Russian Music Academy, Moscow, Russia; State Institute of Arts Studies, Moscow, Russia; State Schnittke Institute, Moscow, Russia; Rakhmaninov Institute, Tambov, Russia; D.D. Shostakovich Archives, Moscow, Russia; Rostropovich Archive, St Petersburg, Russia; Saratov State Conservatoire, Saratov, Russia; Russian State Archive for Literature and Arts (RGALI), Russia; Russian Composers Union Library and Archives, Russia; Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, Moscow, Russia; Glinka Conservatoire, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia; Bolshoi Opera House and Archives, Moscow, Russia; Alfred Schnittke Academy, Hamburg, Germany; Shostakovich Centre, Paris, France; Universite d'Evry, France; Rutgers University, USA; Ohio State University, USA; Yale University, USA; University of California, USA; State Museum of Musical Culture Archive, Russia; University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Hans Sikorski, Germany