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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Since 1998 - present time;  fulltime Managing Editor; since 2005 - present time, also fulltime Publisher, Jazz.Ru magazine and Web portal (Moscow, Russia)
Since 2000 - present time; contributor in Russia, Down Beat magazine, Maher Publications, Elmhurst, IL.
Since 2003 - resent time: contributor in Russia, AllAboutJazz.Com

Since 1994 - present time; intensive writing on music subjects (especially on Jazz) for several Russian newspapers (Segodnya, Izvestia), weeklies (Vedomosti-Friday, Ogonyok, Itogi, EJ), bi-weeklies (Afisha, Time Out in Moscow,) and monthly magazines (Stereo and Video; Audio and Video Review; Moscow Today and Tomorrow; Play Magazine etc.) as well as international Web and printed outfits (AllAboutJazz.Com, JazzForum, Jazz.Pt, Kontrapunkt Ukraine).
As an expert in jazz:

• presented his original research, Jazz Journalism in Russia: From Underground To Reservation In Sixty Years, at the September, 2014 Rhythm Changes Jazz research conference at the Amsterdam Conservatorium, Netherlands;
• lectured on Russian Jazz: 90 Years of History at the Woolworth Music Center, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ;
• wrote a chapter titled Jazz in Eastern Europe, for Discover Jazz, 2012 Pearson Education’s textbook on jazz history (published in the U.S. in English);
• co-wrote, compiled and edited a two-volume non-fiction book titled Russian Jazz (to be released in December, 2012, by Planet of Music, St.Petersburg, Russia);
• co-wrote, compiled and edited the second, enhanced two-volume edition of non-fiction book titled The Jazz Greats (2012, by Planet of Music, St.Petersburg, Russia);
• edited the Russian translation of Terry Teachout's Pops. A Life of Louis Armstrong, for Moscow-based Eksmo publishing house (release postponed by publisher);
• edited the Russian translation of Herman Leonard's Jazz, for Moscow-based Eksmo publishing house (2012);
• compiled and edited a book of collected works by the late Leonid Pereverzev, Russia's jazz musicology pioneer, for St.Petersburg, Russia based Planet of Music publishing company (An Offering to Duke Ellington, and Other Jazz Texts, 2011) (learn more, read excerpts);
• wrote a non-fiction book titled The Blues. Introduction To A History (released in July, 2010, by Planet of Music, St.Petersburg, Russia; second edition, 2014);
• co-wrote, collected and edited a non-fiction book titled The Jazz Greats (released in August, 2009, by Planet of Music, St.Petersburg, Russia);
• wrote a non-fiction book titled The Jazz Industry in America (released in July, 2008, by Planet of Music, St.Petersburg, Russia; the second, enhanced edition titled The Jazz Industry in America, 21st Century appeared in 2013);
• appeared on Philadelphia, PA WRTI as a guest of J. Michael Harrison's Friday night radio show, The Bridge, for a two-hour dialog about the history and present day of jazz in Russia (2010);
• appeared on Washington, DC WFPW as a guest of Larry Appelbaum's in his Sunday radio show, Sound of Surprise, for a two-hour dialog about the state of jazz in Russia (2009);
• participated, as co-host, in the September 30, 2009 event in Washington, DC, titled Jazz Summit (co-hosted with jazz critic and radio personality Larry Appelbaum) and co-sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Open World Leadership program
• participated, as a panelist, in the September 29, 2007, Jazz in the Global Imagination conference at the Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies (New York, NY)
• participated, as a panelist, in the February 27, 2007, Jazz Journalist Association's Jazz Matters Series panel discussion Jazz From Afar at the New School University Jazz Program (New York, NY)
• co-hosted several live jazz concerts on the Culture Radio (with Mikhail Green, March-August, 2007);
• participated in the University of Idaho symposium Jazz Invades Europe with a lecture on Jazz in Soviet Russia: the First Fifty Years (1922-1972) and moderated the symposium's panel discussion on jazz education in the former Eastern Bloc countries (February, 2007);
• held lectures on Jazz In The Soviet Union at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, Moscow, ID, USA, 2006 and 2007;
• emceed numerous Jazz festivals, including Usadba.Jazz (Moscow, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,) The Jazz Province (10-12 major cities in central Russia, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013,) Rostov Jazz (Rostov, Russia, 2013), SibJazzFest (Novosibirsk, Russia, 2010, 2011,) EniJazz (Krasnoyarsk, Russia, 2011,) The Jazz Crossroads (2002, 2003), The Music Of Faith (2012) and Kremlin.Music (2013) in Kazan, Russia, The Triumph Of Jazz (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 2006,) Jazz Express (Tver, Russia, 2006), Jazz at the Hermitage Garden (Moscow, Russia, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014), Minsk Jazz 2007, 2008, 2009 (Minsk, Belarus) and Slavic Bazaar (Vitebsk, Belarus, 2007)
• hosted the 4-day Le Festival on the Culture Radio, live from Moscow's Le Club (August, 2005);
• consulted the future Pulitzer laureate Kim Murphy, of L.A.Times, for her story on Russian bandleader Oleg Lundstrem (February, 2004, published on March 3, 2004);
• participated in Russian TV shows Jam 5 (2002) and Orchestral Pit (2004), Culture Channel

Collected articles on jazz in English (raw/unedited)

Past professional experiences:
1998 - 2002 - Moscow news editor, member of Editorial board, "Jazz Quad" monthly magazine in Russian, Minsk, Belarus.
1996-1999 - jazz news editor, InterMedia Music news agency, Moscow, Russia.
1998 - co-host and co-author, "Jazz'o'Phrenia" weekly TV show, Culture channel (5th nationwide channel), Russian State Television and Radio Company, Moscow, Russia.
1994-1997 - special programs producer and author, Thursday morning / Saturday evening and night host, Radio Rakurs, Moscow, Russia.
1994-1996 - Russian news editor, New Hot Rock monthly magazine, Ogonyok Publishers, Moscow, Russia.
1994 - host, "Musical Express" show,  Voice Of Russia Radio Company, Russian State Television and Radio Company, Moscow, Russia.
1993-1994 - host, Saturday night Blues show, Radio Vox, Moscow, Russia.
1992-1993 - program director, U-Radio, Independent Student Radio Company, Moscow, Russia.
1990-1992 - PR officer, Music Center, Moscow State University.
1988-1990 - journalist, "Fairy's Wheel" (first-ever Rock music show on Soviet TV), Music Programming Division, State Television and Radio Broadcasting Committee, Moscow, USSR.

OTHER SKILLS

Photography: more than 100 professional publications in both music and general interest press as music photographer (examples see here)
Languages spoken: Russian (native), English (fluent), German (full foreign language high school 10-years course, now largely out of practice, easily restorable), French (4-years University course, now out of practice, easily restorable), Spanish (currently taking private lessons.) Some reading experience in Ukrainian (also active understanding and inactive speaking skills), Bulgarian, Serbian, Czech and Polish.
Computer skills: advanced pro-level user in all Windows-based operating systems from 3.1 and higher.
Advanced level user: Open Office, MS Office, Adobe Photoshop, streaming media encoding software (Real Producer, WM Encoder, etc.,) Sony Sound Forge, various Web maintenance and design tools and applications (graphic, animation, WordPress, MS FrontPage etc.),
Basic knowledge of simple video editing software, HTML, ssi, Java, rss etc.

AWARDS

2009 - nominee, Steppenwolf Independent Music Prize (Moscow, Russia; for The Jazz Industry in America book)
2002 - National Internet Award of Russian Federation, "Music site of the Year", for Jazz.Ru.

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

2014-present - lecturer, Advanced Music Journalism, Department of Journalism, Moscow State University, Russia
2014 - guest lecturer, Jazz History, Kyrgyzstan National Conservatory, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
2013 - guest lecturer, Music Journalism, Voronezh State University, Russia; guest lecturer, Jazz History, Rostov State Conservatory, Russia
2012 and 2013 - clinician, Jazz Journalism, Voronezh Journalists Union, Russia
2012 - lecturer, Jazz History, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia
2011 - guest lecturer, Music Industry, East Siberia Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
1990 to 2008 - lecturer, Introducing Music Journalism, Journalism department prep school, Moscow State University, Russia.
2007, 2006 - guest speaker, School of Journalism, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA.
2006, 2012 - clinician, Jazz Journalism, JazzKaar Festival, Tallinn, Estonia
2005 - guest speaker, School of Journalism and International Jazz Collections, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA.
2002 - lecturer, Music Business, Samara State Technology University, Samara, Russia.
1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 - guest lecturer, Mass media in Russia, School of Communication, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA.
2000, 2001, 2009, 2010 - guest speaker, World Music / Roots of Popular Music, School of  Continuing and Professional Studies, New York University, New York, NY.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Member (since 2011) and coordinator (since 2014), Europe Jazz Media
Member, International Federation of Journalists, Journalist Union of Russia (since 2005)
Member, Jazz Journalists Association (since 2000).
Founding member and secretary, Moscow Jazz Journalists Association (since 1998).

OTHER NON-JOURNALISM ACTIVITIES

Board member, Russian Jazz Research Center (since 2011)
Nominator, Open World Leadership Program (2004-2009)
Science fiction writer (since 1990). Three hardcover books published in EKSMO Press, Russia's second largest publishing company, in 2001-2002 (20,000 copies in total). Two electronic releases of new novels on LitRes, Russia's largest legal e-book sales system, in 2011 and 2014.
Amateur musician (played bass guitar in a blues rock group professionally in 1987-1997.)

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