The Tenth Session of the Scholarly Board for Issues of the History of Music Education

Organizers:

• Scholarly Board for Issues of the History of Music Education

• Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory

• The State Humanitarian-Pedagogical University of the City of Perm

Program

International Scholarly Conference “Moscow Conservatory in Historical Perspective: Understudied
and Unexplored Issues (Dedicated to the 160^th Anniversary of Its Founding)”

The historiography of the Moscow Conservatory is extensive. Nevertheless, many aspects of its yesterday’s
and today’s activities remain insufficiently examined. The purpose of the conference is to revitalize this topic, to promote further research into various aspects of the historical development of the Conservatory, as well as to draw
the scholars’ attention to understudied and unexplored issues whose history spans a century and a half.

Topics of the Conference:

• Aspects of historiography, source criticism and methodology related to the studies of the Moscow Conservatory history

• Genesis and development of the Moscow Conservatory (political, economic, historical, cultural, and social aspects)

• Educational and pedagogical processes at the Moscow Conservatory yesterday and today (doctrines, concepts, methodologies, and practices)

• Scholarship, performing art, and pedagogy at the Moscow Conservatory (history and today’s practice)

• History of the Moscow Conservatory personalities (rectors, professors, graduates, and trustees)

• Moscow Conservatory and institutions of higher music education abroad (cooperation and mutual influence)

• Moscow Conservatory in the 21^st Century: Development Prospects

International Scholarly Conference “A Century of Specialized Graduate and Postgraduate Musicology Education in Russia”

Topics of the Conference:

• The specificity of musicology education in Russia

• The structure of musicology education in Russia and the logic of its evolvement

• Musicology education and musical scholarship: correspondences, parallels, discrepancies…

• The history of academic courses, textbooks, and curricula

• The leading musicology teachers at Russia’s conservatories

• Musicology education in both Soviet and post-Soviet periodicals

• Postgraduate studies and Ph.D. theses in the history of Russia’s conservatories

• The urgent needs of musicology education today

• Russia’s musicology education in a worldwide context

• Is the conservatory or the university a proper place for teaching musicology? Pros and cons

• Interdisciplinary interaction in the context of music education: opportunities, challenges, and prospects

• The musicologist in today’s job market: graduate programs against real-world needs

• “Filling a vessel” or “lighting a torch”? Strategies and tactics in musicology education

Participants Invited:

• members of the Scholarly Board for Issues of the History of Music Education;

• heads, faculty, scholars, doctoral candidates, postgraduate and master’s degree students from both higher educational and scholarly institutions;

• music professionals from both Russia and abroad.

Presentation Format: Speech – up to 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for Q&A).

Working Languages: Russian and English.

Publication of Materials:

A conference proceedings volume will be published prior to the session and then indexed in the database of Russia’s Science Citation Index.
Submissions have to be unpublished, scholarly original, and prepared according to the established requirements, with an approximate length of 20,000–40,000 characters: see Appendix.

Organizational Details:

• Forms of participation: in-person, correspondence (poster submission), online

• Application form (attached) has to be forwarded by 15 September 2025 to: nsimo2010@yandex.ru (attn.: Vladimir Adishchev).

• Full paper based on the presentation has to be forwarded to the same address by 1 November 2025.

• Authors who get positive reviews from both the Organizing Committee and the Moscow Conservatory Editorial Board will receive an official invitation to the session in April 2026.

• Travel, accommodation, and meal expenses are to be covered by the participants’ home institutions/sending parties.

• Arrival: 20 April 2026
  Departure: 24 April 2026 (evening)

• Accommodation at the Conservatory dormitory may be provided, if available, upon the Organizing Committee’s special approval.

• The participants will receive their certificates of attendance.

The Organizing Committee:

• Prof. Alexander Sokolov, D.A., Acting Rector of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, Chairman

• Prof. Konstantin Zenkin, D.A., Vice-Rector for the Research and Morale Building Activities of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, Deputy Chairman

• Prof. Vladimir Adishchev, D.Ed., Faculty of Music at the State Humanitarian-Pedagogical University
  of the City of Perm, Chairman of the Scholarly Board for Issues of the History of Music Education,
  Project Executive

• Assc. Prof. Alexei Sarapulov, Ph.D. in History, Vice-Rector for Research Methodology and Academic Cooperation at the State Humanitarian-Pedagogical University of the City of Perm

Contacts:
Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (Prof. K. Zenkin):
Tel.: +7 (495) 629-41-43 | E-mail: nauka@mosconsv.ru

State Humanitarian-Pedagogical University of the City of Perm (Prof. V. Adishchev):
Tel.: +7 (342) 215-19-53 (ext. 522) | E-mail: nsimo2010@yandex.ru

We cordially invite you to participate in the session!

Sincerely,
The Organizing Committee for the Preparation of the Tenth Session of the Scholarly Board for Issues of the History of Music Education

APPLICATION FORM
to be filled out in order to participate in the Tenth Session of the Scholarly Board for Issues of the History of Music Education

Full Name (Surname, Given Name, Patronymic):

Institution/Affiliation:

Position/Title:

Academic Degree, Academic Title:

Home Mailing Address (with postal code):

Phone Numbers (with area code):
Home:
Office:
Mobile:

Email Address:

Conference Name & Paper Title:

Abstract (up to 500 characters):

Participation Format: In-person / Correspondence (poster) / Online (please underline/select)

Need for Dormitory Accommodation:

Full Name, Academic Degree, Academic Title of the Institution Head:

Email of the Institution Head (or General Office):

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Note: Please complete all sections of the application and submit it as a separate file.

APPENDIX

Article Formatting Guidelines

• Submissions must be unpublished, with verified citations and bibliography, an approximate length
  of 20,000–40,000 characters.

• Software: Microsoft Word

• Font: Times New Roman, 14 pt

• Line spacing: 1.5

• Margins: 2 cm on all sides

• Paragraph indent: 1.25 cm

• In-text citations: square brackets [1, p. 17]

• Reference list: numbered, alphabetically ordered, placed at the end of the article (12 pt)

First Page Layout:

Top right corner: Author’s initials and surname (14 pt, bold)

Single-spaced below: Institution name (12 pt, italic)

1.5 line spaces below: Article title (UPPERCASE, bold, 14 pt)