Kirill Smolkin M.A.

Kirill Smolkin studied musicology at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, graduating in 2022 with a diploma thesis on the choral-symphonic works of Johannes Brahms. Since 2020, he has been working as a freelance editor and co-author of the online encyclopaedia on Pyotr Tchaikovsky, published by the State Institute for Art Studies, Moscow. Since April 2023, he has been a doctoral candidate at the Musicology Department of Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. His dissertation on the compositional reception of Tchaikovsky's music is supervised by Prof. Dr. Christoph Flamm and funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) through a research scholarship within the Hilde Domin Programme. His research interests include the music history of the second half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, interdisciplinary studies of music and painting, and word and music studies.

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