Yaroslav
Timofeyev

musicologist, music critic, host of RNYSO concerts

Biography

Music critic writing for various periodicals since 2011. Over 750 publications, including in Izvestiya, Kommersant, and Russia Beyond the Headlines newspapers, The New Times, Muzykalnaya Akademiya (Musical Academy), Muzykalnaya Zhizn (Musical Life) magazines, and on Colta.ru among others. Was editor of the Culture section of Izvestiya newspaper. Writer and editor of the Absolutnyi Slukh (Perfect Pitch) and Iskusstvennyi Otbor (Artificial Selection) programmes on the Kultura TV Channel. Headed the Music Criticism Department for six years at the Youth Section of the Russian Union of Composers (MolOt).

Keyboardist of the indie group OQJAV.