Marina Frolova-Walker Explained

Prof. Marina Frolova-Walker
Alma Mater:Moscow Conservatoire College
Occupation:ProfessorResearcher

LecturerBroadcaster

Employer:University of Cambridge, Clare College, Gresham College
Notable Works:Stalin's Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics (Yale, 2016)
Spouse:Jonathan Walker
Website:https://www.marinafrolova-walker.com/

Marina Frolova-Walker FBA (Russian: link=no|Марина Фролова-Уокер;[1] born 1966)[2] is a Russian-born British musicologist and music historian, who specialises in German Romanticism, Russian and Soviet music, and nationalism in music.[3] She is Professor of Music History at the University of Cambridge and Director of Studies in Music at Clare College, Cambridge.[4] In June 2019 it was announced that she would be the 36th Professor of Music at Gresham College.[5] She has authored several books and a number of academic articles.

Biography

Born in Moscow, she first attended the college (ru) of the Moscow Conservatory and then subsequently completed her graduate studies at the conservatory proper. In 1994 she defended her doctorate on the symphonies of the 19th century German composer Robert Schumann and their influence on Russian music. She moved to the United Kingdom in the same year "for personal, rather than political reasons." Between 1994 and 2000 she taught at various universities in the UK, namely at the University of Ulster, Goldsmiths, University of London, and University of Southampton. In 2000 she started teaching at the University of Cambridge.

In her biography, Frolova-Walker writes that she began teaching at 19, and adds that she has given more than 100 lectures before concerts in locations ranging from Carnegie Hall to factories in Kazakhstan.

In 2014, Frolova-Walker was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[6]

In 2015, Frolova-Walker was elected to professorship at the University of Cambridge.[7] She delivered her inaugural professorial lecture at the University of Cambridge in October 2015.[8] Also in 2015 Frolova-Walker was awarded the Dent Medal for outstanding contribution to musicology.[9]

Frolova-Walker has appeared regularly on TV and Radio including the BBC Proms. In 2015 she appeared on BBC Radio 3 Proms Extra speaking on Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony. She has also contributed to the BBC Radio 3 Stravinsky 'A to Z',[10] BBC Radio 3 Composer of the Week, and BBC Radio 3 Record Review. In 2018-19, Frolova-Walker gave a series of lectures on 'Russian Opera and the State' at Gresham College;[11] in 2019-20 her Gresham lectures will be on Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes.[12] Links to her radio broadcasts, filmed lectures, and selected articles can be found on Frolova-Walker's website.[13]

Works

Frolova-Walker's interest in historiography of Russian music and the nationalist/exoticist myths resulted in the book titled Russian Music and Nationalism: from Glinka to Stalin (2008),[7] which is considered her magnum opus.[14] It has received generally favourable reviews from critics.[14] [15] Andrew Wachtel, although pointing out several errors and shortcomings, wrote that it "will be important for all scholars interested in manifestations of Russian nationalist thinking and/or in the process of cultural nation-building."[16]

In 2011-13 she held a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, which allowed her to pursue extensive archival research in Russia, leading to the publication of Stalin's Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics (Yale University Press, 2016).[17]

Books[18]
Selected articles[19]

Awards and honors

Notes and References

  1. Web site: "Opera Musicologica" Консультативный совет ["Opera Musicologica" Journal Advisory Board]]. Saint Petersburg Conservatory. 15 August 2014. ru. Марина Фролова-Уокер.
  2. Web site: Выдающиеся музыканты – выпускники теоретического отделения [Outstanding musicians – graduates of the theoretical department]]. Academic Musical College of the Moscow State Conservatory. 15 August 2014. ru. ФРОЛОВА-УОЛКЕР Марина Вадимовна (р.1966).
  3. Web site: Music. Clare College, Cambridge. 15 August 2014.
  4. Web site: Dr Marina Frolova-Walker. Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge. 15 August 2014.
  5. Web site: Marina Frolova-Walker, Professor of Music. www.gresham.ac.uk. 2019-06-15.
  6. Web site: The British Academy New Fellows 2014.
  7. Web site: Dr Marina Frolova-Walker. 13 September 2013. Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge. 25 November 2015.
  8. Web site: Marina Frolova Walker. Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge. 25 November 2015.
  9. Web site: Dr Marina Frolova-Walker. Dent Medal. 25 November 2015.
  10. Web site: D for Diaghliev. BBC Radio 3. 25 November 2015.
  11. Web site: Russian Opera and the State. Gresham College. 10 July 2019.
  12. Web site: Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. Gresham College. 5 August 2019.
  13. Web site: Prof. Frolova-Walker. 29 July 2019. New Perspectives on Russian Music.
  14. Russian Music and Nationalism: From Glinka to Stalin by Marina Frolova-Walker Review by: Mark Carroll. Slavic Review. 68. 2. 449–451. Summer 2009. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 10.2307/27698006. Frolova-Walker's magnum opus is rounded out with a glossary of terms, which is an impressive piece of scholarship in itself. While the extensive use of music examples assumes a fair degree of musical literacy on the part of the reader, the author's easy traverse of a range of sociocultural disciplines ensures that there is, as they say, something in this book for everyone.. 27698006. Carroll. Mark. 164853555.
  15. Review: Russian Music and Nationalism from Glinka to Stalin. Nota Bene: Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Musicology. 2. 1. Gudesblatt. Melanie. 2009.
  16. Russian Music and Nationalism: From Glinka to Stalin by Marina Frolova-Walker Review by: Andrew Wachtel. Slavic and East European Journal. 53. 1. Spring 2009. 136–137. American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. This book is not without faults; at times it is overly polemical and reads like a dissertation (and the Yale UP copy-editor should have corrected a number of instances of Russian-inflected English); it also inexplicably fails to address and acknowledge a number of important works of relevant Western scholarship (Boris Gasparov, Caryl Emerson). Nevertheless, Frolova-Walker has assimilated an enormous amount of material and has presented it compellingly and in ways that can be appreciated by and will be important for all scholars interested in manifestations of Russian nationalist thinking and/or in the process of cultural nation-building..
  17. Web site: Stalin's Music Prize. Yale University Press. 15 June 2019.
  18. Web site: Publications by Marina Frolova-Walker. Academia.edu. 15 August 2014.
  19. Web site: Marina Frolova-Walker. Google Scholar. 15 August 2014.

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