Vladimir Orlov (Great Britain) "Soviet Saint: the Film-oratorio "Alexander Nevsky" by Eisenstein and Prokofiev"

 
05.03.2014
 
School of Arts and Cultural Heritage

Vladimir Orlov received his PhD in Music Studies from Cambridge University (Great Britain) after graduate studies at the State Institute of Art Studies (Moscow) and after graduating from the Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatory as a musicologist, organist, and an artist of chamber ensembles. He has lectured in the United States, Russia, and European countries. He has been in a series of academic publications in Russian and in English; his main research interests are the Silver Age of Russian culture and Socialist Realism. He received first place in the Russian Musicological Concourse (2002, 2004) and is the recipient of a Fulbright grant, the ORS Award, and a grant from the Gates Cambridge Trusts. Since 2007, he has taught at Cambridge University. He was the president of the Russian Society of Cambridge (founded by Vladimir Nabokov) from 2006-2007, and currently sits on the Board of Trustees of the Society.