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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 (Re:Action, 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).
As an expert in jazz:

• currently signed with St.Petersburg, Russia based Planet of Music publishing company for a non-fiction book tentatively titled "The Blues. Introduction To A History" (to be released in March, 2010)
• 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)
• 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;
• 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 The Jazz Province (10-12 major cities in central Russia, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2008,) The Jazz Crossroads (Kazan, Russia, 2002, 2003,)  The Triumph Of Jazz (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 2006,) Jazz Express (Tver, Russia, 2006), Jazz at the Hermitage Garden (Moscow, Russia, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009), 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 Editorial, 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: MS Word and other Office software, Adobe Photoshop, Streaming media encoding software (Real Producer, WM Encoder, etc.,) Sony Sound Forge, various Web maintenance and design tools and applications (graphic, animation, MS FrontPage etc.)
Basic knowledge of 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

1990 to 2008 - lecturer, Introducing the Music Journalism, Journalism department prep school, Moscow State University, Russia.
2007 and 2006 - guest speaker, School of Journalism, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA.
2006 - clinician in 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, for School of Communication, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA.
2000, 2001, 2009 - 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, 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

Nominator, Open World Leadership Program (since 2004)
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).
Amateur musician (played bass guitar in a rock group professionally in 1987-1997.)

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