Rethinking Prokofiev
Edited by Rita McAllister and Christina Guillaumier
Author Information
Rita McAllister is a composer, pianist, educationalist, and writer on music. She holds a Research Chair at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She was educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Cambridge: her doctoral thesis was on the operas of Sergei Prokofiev. She has published extensively on Prokofiev and on many other aspects of Russian and Soviet music in journals, magazines, and music encyclopedias, and recently re-constructed the first version of Prokofiev's War and Peace, which was premièred in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Rostov-on-Don.
Christina Guillaumier is a musicologist, pianist, and writer on music. She is Head of Undergraduate Programmes at the Royal College of Music (London) and is a member of the Centre for Russian Music at Goldsmiths, University of London. A graduate of the Universities of St Andrews, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and Oxford, her research has been awarded several grants and fellowships. She is a published author on Russian music, including Prokofiev's childhood compositions, his operas, and his early orchestral music.
Contributors:
Boris Berman, Head of the Piano Department, Yale School of Music
Terry L. Dean, Associate Professor of Musicology and Gender Studies, Indiana State University
Polina Dimova, Lecturer of Russian, Vanderbilt University
Katya Ermolaeva, PhD candidate, Princeton University
Marina Frolova-Walker, Professor of Music History, University of Cambridge
Christina Guillaumier, Head of Undergraduate Programmes, Royal College of Music
Konrad Harley, Director of Music, St. Barnabas Anglican church in Toronto
Julia Khait, PhD candidate, Princeton University
Nelly Kravetz, Professor of Music, Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel-Aviv University
Peter Kupfer, Associate Professor of Musicology, Southern Methodist University
Rita McAllister, Research Chair, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Ivana Medic, Research Associate, Institute of Musicology at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Nicolas Moron, Lecturer, University of Lorraine
Simon Morrison, Professor of Music, Princeton University
Jane Pritchard, Curator of Dance, Victoria and Albert Museum
Marina Raku, Lead Researcher, Department of Music History, State Institute of Arts Studies in Moscow
Natalia Savkina, Associate Professor, Moscow Conservatory
Joseph Schultz, Music Librarian and Coordinator for the Proms, BBC
Richard Taruskin, author of The Oxford History of Western Music (2004)
David G. Tompkins, Associate Professor of History and Director of European Studies, Carleton College
Daniel Tooke, PhD candidate, University of Leeds
Patrick Zuk, Associate Professor of Music, University of Durham in England
