Cyril Moshkow

NEW: Cyril Moshkow is invited to participate in the conference entitled Jazz in the Global Imagination: Music, Journalism, and Culture, at the School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York City (presented by The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University in partnership with the Jazz Journalists Association) on September 29, 2007.

NEW: The video from the panel discussion Cyrl Moshkow participated in on February 27, 2007, Jazz from Afar, at the New School University (New York City), is now available online.
Click here to launch the video player (106 min), or download the mp4 video file from here (379 Mb). On the still: Howard Mandel (President, Jazz Journalists Association) observes Cyril Moshkow speaking during the Feb. 27, 2007 panel discussion.

Kirill "Cyril" Moshkow was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1968. He entered the Moscow State University in 1984 and, having taken a brief break for mandatory military service, studied at the Journalism department (specializing in TV journalism) until 1991. The eventful history of post-Soviet Russia and its promptly growing mass media and entertainment markets made a great impact on Cyril's career: in 1990-1998, he used to work as a TV reporter, a music festival producer, a security guard, a news agency editor, a rock group musician, a radio station host, a newspaper columnist, a radio station program director, and again as a TV reporter. In 1998 he joined Jazz.Ru, Russia's leading Web conglomerate dedicated to jazz music, as a managing editor. Besides writing a good deal of articles for the weekly jazz online magazine inside Jazz.Ru, Cyril writes extensively for several Russian printed publications - daily newspapers (Izvestia), weekly general interest and entertainment magazines (The Weekly, Afisha, TimeOut Moscow) and monthly music magazines (Play, Stereo&Video, Audio&Video Review, Salon AV). 
In 2002, Jazz.Ru was awarded the National Internet Award of Russia as the Music Site of the Year. Since 2000, Cyril also serves as Russian contributor to Down Beat, the world's oldest and most respected jazz magazine. 
In late 2006, Jazz.Ru launched the first printed Jazz magazine in post-Soviet Moscow. The magazine, titled simply Jazz.Ru, was presented at a release party at the Moscow House of Journalists in December, 2006. After four pilot bimonthly issues in 2007, Jazz.Ru Magazine (full-color, thick paper, 68 pages) switched to monthly mode in August, 2007. Cyril Moshkow serves as the magazine's both Publisher and Editor; the Jazz.Ru team also does not give up the Web portal, continuing service to its 10,000 strong online community.
Since 1991, Cyril Moshkow also teaches music journalism at Moscow State University. His educational experience also includes guest lectures at the New York University (Roots of Popular Music, School of  Continuing and Professional Studies, New York University, New York, NY) in 2000 and 2001, and at the University of Idaho (Mass media in Russia, for School of Communication, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID) in 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002.
Cyril Moshkow also gave lectures at the University of Idaho in February, 2006 ("Jazz in Russia", within the program of Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival,) and 2007 (School of Journalism,) participated in the University of Idaho symposium "Jazz Invades Europe" (February, 2007) with the lecture "Jazz in Soviet Russia: the First Fifty Years (1922-1972)", and spoke to the audience of Jazz Journalist Association members and jazz community activists at the New School University Jazz Program (New York, NY) during the February 27, 2007 JJA's Jazz Matters Series panel discussion "Jazz From Afar".
The discussion is now available online:
Click here to launch the video player (106 min), or download the mp4 video file from here (379 Mb).
This is how one of Cyril's guest lectures at University of Idaho looked in 2000 (photo courtesy LS Comm)

Cyril Moshkow is also a science fiction writer who published, since 2001, three science fiction novels in EKSMO Press, Russia's largest publishing house (20.000 copies sold in total). He had also completed a large book about the industry of jazz music in the United States, based on the interviews that he made during his six visits to the U.S.A. in 1998-2002 ("Jazz Industry in America") and, while working on its publishing, now completes another book on music, dedicated to some of the most prominent record labels and records producers in popular music, blues, soul and jazz music during the second half of 20th century. 
Cyril travels extensively as a jazz journalist covering jazz festivals and other forms of jazz activity, both alone and with his co-author, Muscovite music journalist Anna Filipieva (recently toured and reviewed: Jazz Czterech Kultur, Lodz, Poland, 2001; Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, Moscow, Idaho, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007; Jazz Carnival, Odessa, Ukraine, 2001, 2002, 2004; Ethno Jazz Trio, Chisinau, Moldova, 2002; Jazz Rally, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2003, 2005; Jazz Summer, Varna, Bulgaria, 2004; Jazz Koktebel, Crimea, Ukraine, 2005; Jazzkaar, Tallinn, Estonia, 2006, 2007; Kingston Jazz Festival, Kingston, NY, 2006; etc.)

"A Quickie Guide To Jazz Festivals In Eastern Europe": Cyril Moshkow's 2004 article on AllAboutJazz.Com

Cyril Moshkow's English articles for various Russian and international publications (raw, unedited)

Cyril Moshkow's Russian Jazz Podcast in English

MORE DETAILS: Cyril Moshkow's resume