Education
PhD, 2000 (kandidat iskusstvovedenia), Saint-Petersburg Conservatory, Russia.
MA, 1995 (Saint-Petersburg Conservatory).
Secondary Special Music School of Saint-Petersburg Conservatory, 1986.

Research field
Traditional Music of Kalmyks, Oirad-Western Mongols. Long songs Ut Dun,
folk-tunes of dombra and tovshuur.

Teaching experience
Associate professor at the Saint-Petersburg State University for the Art and Culture (Russia). Courses: Russian musical folklore; Music of national minorities in Russia; Fieldworks methods in Ethnomusicology; Notation and analysis of the traditional music (2000-2006).
Assistant professor at the Saint-Petersburg Conservatory. Courses: Music of national minorities of Russian Federation (2002-2006).
Music instructor at the STARTALK Student Program ‘Bridges to Russia: Culture and Social Sciences’ at Harvard University, Cambridge MA (2019)

Past academic position
Senior Researcher at the Saint-Petersburg Centre for Folklore and Ethnography, Russia (2002-2006).

Fieldwork
Inner Mongolia, China (2018), Kalmykia (1990-2005), Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China (1992), Altai Republic of Russia; Uvs and Khovd aimags, Mongolia (2001), Pskov, Vologda, Tver’, Novgorod, Smolensk, Leningrad and Karelia regions of Russia (1987-2004).

Archiving
Ghilyana Dordzhieva / Kalmyk traditional music collection at the World Music Archive at Harvard University 
Ghilyana Dordzhieva.  Video recordings of the music from  Gorno-Altai Republic of Russia and Uvs, Khovd aimags of Mongolia at the Archive of Traditional Music  at Indiana University in Bloomington.

Other projects
Visiting researcher, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China (2018).
EVIADA project. Depositor and annotator of ‘Music of Gorny Altai of Russia, Hovd and Uvs aimags of Mongolia’. Bloomington, IN, 2008.
Project ‘Kalmyk music’: researching and multimedia. Russian foundation for Fundamental Researches, 2003.
Whiting foundation fellowship for young researchers of Saint Petersburg conservatory, 1997.

Applied Ethnomusicology
Programming and organizing events for the Kalmyk community of Boston (moderator of Kalmyk Boston group), and for the Russian-speaking community of greater Boston. Summer camps for children, community celebration and workshops in folklore singing (2016-present).

Other musical interest
Organist, Service Playing Certificate of American Guild of Organists (AGO).