Dr. Dimitri Shapovalov

Musicologist, Author of the Program Notes

Dimitri Shapovalov is a published author and translator on musicological topics connected with Russian culture at the turn of the twentieth century. He received his Ph.D. in musicology from Cornell University in May 2005. His dissertation, 'Russian Solo Song in the Silver Age, 1890-1917,' discusses the aesthetic, poetic, and musical context of solo songs by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Igor Stravinsky, and Sergei Prokofiev. He has presented papers on Russian music at national and international conferences, including the Prokofiev International Symposium in Manchester, UK, and the American Musicological Society in Washington, DC. At Carthage, Shapovalov's teaching interests center on nineteenth- and twentieth-century music history and the relationship between art and society.