Musicologist, Music Theorist, Full Professor
Post Doctoral Degree (D. Sc.) in Music Art. Ph. D. in Musicology. M. A. NLP. Member of Russian Composers Union.  Senior Fulbright Scholar.
Advisor to the Rector
Honored Master of Art of the Russian Federation (2010)

Visit Dr. Karaseva`s  Photo Gallery and her Personal Site to get more information (photos, music, video materials etc.) about her creative activity.

Education

• 2000. Moscow State Conservatory. Post-Ph. D. in Music Art and Science Dissertation: “Solfeggio – Psychotechnique of Ear Training”
• 1999-2000. Moscow State Conservatory. Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 1989. Moscow State Conservatory. Ph. D. in Music Art and Science
• Dissertation: “The Theoretical Problems of the Modern Ear Training”. Advisor: Prof. Y. N. Kholopov
• 1982-1988. Moscow State Conservatory. Post-Graduate studies in Music Art Diploma with distinction
• 1977-1982. Moscow State Conservatory. M. A. in Musicology. Department of Music Theory and Composition. Diploma with distinction. Thesis: “Toward the Problem of Ear Training and Sight Singing of the XX Century Music. The Systematization of Solfeggio Methods” Advisor: Prof. Y. N. Kholopov (consulting advisor: D. A. Blum)
• 1973-1977. Moscow State Conservatory College. B. A. in Musicology. Department of Music Theory and Composition. Diploma with distinction
• 1965-1973. The School of Music at the Moscow State Conservatory College. Piano and Music Theory. Diploma with distinction

Psychological Education

• 1996-1998. Moscow Center of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). M. A. in NLP. International Certificates: NLP-Practitioner, NLP-Master

Linguistic Certifications

• 2006. JLPT Certificate Third Level. Japan Foundation
• 2005. JLPT Certificate Fourth Level. Japan Foundation

School Awards and Fellowships

• 1982. Personal award: The presentation of the M. A. Thesis as selected for the National Exhibition “The Soviet Culture”. Moscow, VDNH
• 1981. Personal academic Rimsky-Korsakov-Fellowship. Moscow State Conservatory
• 1980. Personal award. The All-Union Student Competition in Social and Political Sciences
• 1976. Personal academic Lenin-Fellowship. Moscow State Conservatory College

Research Grants

• 1999-2000. Fulbright Advanced Research Award. Project title: “Music Psychotechnology as a New Approach at the Cross-Roads of Sciences: Cognitive Musicology and Practical Psychology”
• 1997-1999. Russian Humanitarian Scientific Fund. The research investigation: “Psychotechnology of Musical Activity”

Primary Areas of Research Interest Psychotechnology of Music Influence, Ear Training, Music Cognition, Social Psychology of Music, Music Intonation in Language

Administrative work at the Moscow Conservatory

Advisor to the Rector

Academic Experience

• 1982-Present. Moscow State Conservatory. Music Theory Department
• 2004 / 2002. Full Professor (as a degree / as a position)
• 1996 / 1995. Associate Professor (as a degree / as a position)
• 1993. Assistant Professor
• 1982-1996. Central School of Music at the Moscow State Conservatory. Instructor in Music Theory, Harmony and Ear Training

Practical Experience

      Courses

• 2006-Present. Course of Lectures: “Sociology of Music”. The Higher School of Economics, Department of Sociology
• 2004-Present. Course of Lectures: “Social Psychology of Music”. Moscow State University, Department of Psychology
• 1992-Present. Annual Two-week Master-Classes on Ear Training for the music teachers. Skill-Improvement Department of Moscow State Conservatory
• 2002-2003. Course of Lectures: “Music in Advertising”. Moscow State University, Department of Psychology
• 2001. Practical Course “The Psychotechnology of NLP in Music”. Moscow State Conservatory
• 1998. Music Psychological Training “Art-Self-Modeling”. Moscow State Conservatory

      Lectures and Master Classes (Ear Training, Music Appreciation)

• 2009. The Institute for Advanced Training «Conversion» — The Higher School of Business. Rybinks
• 2009. The Institute for Advanced Training «Conversion» — The Higher School of Business. Yaroslav
• 2009. Saint-Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences, Saint-Petersburg
• 2008. Xi`an Conservatory of Music. Xi’an, China
• 2007. Central School of Arts, Khimki
• 2007. Saint-Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences, Saint-Petersburg
• 2006. The Higher School of Economics, Moscow
• 2003. Kazan State Conservatory, Kazan
• 2002. Toliatti Institute of Arts, Toliatti
• 2002. Ryazan Music College, Ryazan
• 2002. Russian Social Education Society, Yaroslavl
• 2002. Moscow State University (Department of Philology), Moscow
• 2001. Yakutsk Music College and High School of Music, Yakutsk
• 2001. Ippolitov-Ivanov Music-Pedagogical Institute, Moscow
• 2001. Magnitogorsk State Conservatory, Magnitogorsk
• 2000. Saint Petersburg State Conservatory, Saint Petersburg
• 2000. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
• 2000. NLP Center of New York, NY, USA
• 2000. School of Music of Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH, USA.

      Presentations of Author`s Projects

• 2005. Presentation of the author's creative project "Music origami" (in Jap.) Japanese Cultural Center, Embassy of Japan.
• 2004. Presentation of the author's music theoretical course for foreign students. Kurashiki Sakuyo University, Kurashiki, Japan.
• 2004. Presentation of the author's methodology "Music Intonation in Japanese Language" (in Jap.) Japanese Cultural Center, Embassy of Japan

      Professional Membership and Services

• 2006-Present. Member of Asia TEFL Association
• 2002-Present. Member of Russian Composer Union
• 2001-Present. Member of the Russian-American Association “The Fulbright Alumni”
• 2002-Present. Dissertation Paper reviewer and official opponent at Dissertation Defence Councils for Musicology, Music Education, and Mass Media
• 2001-2004. Music Theory Curricula reviewer for Russian Board of Music Education
• 2003. Member of Expert Council for the High Education Certification, Kazan
• 2002. Member of the jury board at the All-Russian Competition in Music Theory and History, Ryazan

Educational work:

Languages

• Russian – Native speaker
• English – Fluent
• French – Understanding and reading knowledge, basic spoken language skills (+ music-term thesaurus)
• German – Understanding and reading knowledge, basic spoken language skills (+ music-term thesaurus)
• Italian – Elementary reading and spoken language skills (+ music-term thesaurus)
• Spanish – Elementary reading and spoken language skills (+ music-term thesaurus)
• Japanese – In process of the academic study (3d JLPT-level)

Conference Papers

• 2009. Modern multimedia for the benefit of the timbre ear training. Conference «Modern audiovisual technologies in creative art and the higher education». Saint Petersburg
• 2008. Musical Education at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and the Role of Solfeggio in the Professional Training for Musicians. Chinese-Russian Solfeggio Congress. Xi`an, China
• 2007. Yuri Kholopov: as an Originator of “Modern Solfeggio” . International Conference “Homage to Yuri Kholopov”. Moscow
• 2007. Course of Music Sociology at the Higher School of Economics. International Conference “Sociology of Music”. Moscow
• 2007. Application of multimedia in the ear training course. IV Conference “Modern Audio-Visual Technologies in Creative Arts”. Saint Petersburg
• 2006. From the diary of a fly: singing Bartok’s music in ear training course. Musicological Conference “Bela Bartok Today”. Moscow
• 2006. Music notation of Japanese spoken intonation: methodology, potentialities, and prospects. Symposium for Japanese Teachers from Commonwealth of Independent States. Moscow
• 2006. Perceiving foreign language melodically. The Asia TEFL 2006 International Conference "Spreading Our Wings: Meeting TEFL Challenges". Fukuoka, Japan
• 2006. What if someone is a native speaker? Optimization of interdisciplinary dialogue by means of adequate intonation. The IV All-Russian Fulbright Alumni Conference. Volgograd
• 2005. The main features in foreign ear training courses". The Gnesins Music Institutions from 19th to 21st Centuries: Strategies and Perspectives of Music Education. Moscow
• 2005. Synesthetic Listening and its Potentialities in Emotional Perception of Modern Music. International Conference "Methods and Perspectives of Musical Aesthetics: from Theory to History". Strasbourg, France
• 2005. Ear training as a practical aspect of music cognition.　V. Kongress der Gesellschaft fur Musiktheorie (GMTH) "Musiktheorie im Kontext". Hamburg, Germany
• 2004. Power of music in music of power. International Conference “Music and Musician in the Changing Socio-Cultural Space”. Rostov on Don
• 2004. Contemporary good ear for music and the new millennium challenges. International Conference “Music and Musician in the Changing Socio-Cultural Space”. Rostov on Don
• 2004. Learning Japanese melodically: language ear training methodology by means of music notation. International Language Forum “Globalization and National Originality”. Kazan
• 2004. New music and ear training. Groping for way in – widening way out. The 13th International Congress for Society of Musicology “Music and Cultural Identity”. Weimar, Germany
• 2004. Comparative analysis of cultural aims and beliefs in Russian and American models of the Art & Humanities education. International Conference “Russian-American Interrelations in the Context of Globalization”. Moscow
• 2003. Music of the 20th century: a challenge for music consciousness? International Conference “Art of the 20th Century: Elite and Masses”. Nizhny Novgorod
• 2003. The Fulbright Community as a phenomenon of the social group. The 3d Fulbright Alumni Conference in Russia. Saint Petersburg
• 2002. Understanding music language through synesthesia as means for music cognition. The 2nd Conference “Understanding and creating music”. Caserta, Italy
• 2002. Social psychocorrection by means of music. “Musicology and Globalization”. International Congress of the Musicological Society of Japan. Shizuoka, Japan
• 2002. The mystery of the 20th century music aversion: synesthetical associations as a psychological key factor of listener`s aural barriers. “Horror Novitatis”. International Musicological Colloquium. Brno, Czech Republic
• 2002. Russian solfege in the period of postmodernism. International Conference “J. Kholopov and his scientific school”. Moscow
• 2002. Music psychocorrection as a special field of practical music cognition. 17th International Congress of International Musicological Society. Leuven, Belgium
• 2002. About new aspects of psychocorrective music hearing. The 19th International Conference on Literature and Psychology. Arezzo, Italy
• 2002. Components of music language in group and individual psychocorrection. The 5th All-Russian Conference on Psychotherapy and Clinic Psychology in Theory and Practice. Moscow
• 2002. Development of the creative thinking in period of globalization. The 2nd Russian-American Fulbright Alumni Conference “University Scholar and Challenges of Contemporary Culture”. Yaroslavl
• 2002. Russian model of performing creativity: psychological aspects. Conference of the Society for Research in Psychology of Music and Music Education (SRPMME) and ESCOM “Investigating Music Performance”. London, UK
• 2002. Listening – visualizing – feeling – changing": psychocorrective opportunities of the guided imagination in the process of music perception. The 10th Anniversary Conference “Musical Creativity” of European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM). Liege, Belgium
• 2002. Marketing in institutions of Fine Arts. Seminar of Russian Ministry of Education “Marketing Management in the Field of Education”. Moscow
• 2001. Psycho-correction by means of music as a new branch of modern psychotherapy. The 4th International Conference of Health Behavioral Science “Integrated Approach to Health”. Kobe, Japan
• 2001. Modern psychotechnologies: new opportunities for intercultural and interdisciplinary Integration. Fulbright Alumni Conference. Moscow
• 2001. Music and advertising. International Conference “Contemporary Psychotechnologies in Education, Business, and Policy”. Moscow
• 2001. National anthem: psychotechnological secrets of music influence. International Conference “Contemporary Psychotechnologies in Education, Business, and Policy”. Moscow
• 2000. Thinking about a program for methodology of ear training on the university level. Professional Convention of the Russian Federation Music Education Association. Orel
• 2000. Ear training as a psychotechnics for the development of good ear for music. Professional Convention of the Russian Federation Music Education Association. Orel
• 2000. Russian music education: traditions and innovations. Professional Conference of Ohio Music Education Association. Cleveland, OH, USA
• 1998. NLP and musical therapy. Third All-Russian Conference “Contemporary Psychotherapy Trends in Russia: Theory and Practice”. Moscow
• 1998. NLP and musical therapy through the musician's look. All-Russian Conference “The Modern Practical Psychology in Education”. Moscow
• 1997. Modern ear training in college and conservatory courses. All-Russian Conference “Problems of the Student`s Pedagogical Training in the College and Conservatory Education”. Moscow
• 1995. Solfeggio: psychotechnics of modern professional ear training. Moscow Conference “Contemporary Musical Performance and the Musical Ear”. Moscow
• 1992. The specificity of the modal scales study in the Special School of Music. Republican Conference “The Contemporary Methods of Musical Education”. Minsk
• 1987. Theoretical problems of the methodological reconstruction of ear training. Conference “Actual Problems in Culture and Art Development”. Moscow
• 1980. The 20th century musical styles and the problems of the ear training. All-Union Conference “Historical and Theoretical Problems of Musical Style”. Gorky

E-mail:  marina.v.karaseva@gmail.com
Phone:  + 7 495 757-06-29