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Svetlana Yurievna Poliakova is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH/NOVA). Since 2003, she has been a researcher at the Center for the Study of Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (CESEM) at FCSH/NOVA, within the Early Music Studies group, where she created (in 2018) and directed, in collaboration with Ivan Moody, the project Eastern Christian Chant in Portugal (supported by CESEM). She is a founding member of the International Society for Orthodox Church Music (ISOCM) at the University of Joensuu, Finland. She founded and directs the Pravoslava Chamber Choir (since 2002) and the Romanos Melodos Academic Choir (FCSH, Department of Musicology; since 2011), both dedicated to the performance of Eastern sacred music repertoires.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Svetlana Yurievna Poliakova

Citation names

  • Svetlana Poliakova

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7115-F9DA-5DEE
ORCID iD
0000-0002-9779-3208

Addresses

  • Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Av. de Berna, 26-C, 1069-061, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Performing Arts Studies (Musicology, Theater Science, Dramaturgy)

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Russian (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2015 - 2022
Ongoing
 Russian Sticheraria of the Triodion Cycle: at the Crossroads of Traditions (Pós-doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Saxo Instituttet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2003 - 2009
Concluded
 Ciências Musicais (Doutoramento)
Major in Ciências Musicais-Históricas
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"Sin 319 and Voskr 27 and the Triodion Cycle in the Liturgical Praxis in Russia during the Studite Period" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1988/09 - 1990/06
Concluded
 História da Música (kandidatexaman)
Major in Música Sacra Russa
Conservatório Nacional Superior Tchaikovsky , Russia
"Old Russian Triodion" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1985/09 - 1988/06
Concluded
 Teoria e Composição (Licence)
Major in História e Teoria Musical
Conservatório Nacional Superior Tchaikovsky , Russia
1980/09 - 1984/06
Concluded
 Teoria musical (Bachelor)
Major in Teoria musical
Escola Musical Profissional adstrita ao Conservatório Nacional Superior Tchaikovsky , Russia
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2003/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/06 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2009/02 - 2020/06 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2008/09 - 2014/01 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Dança, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Dança, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2004 - 2008 Sin 319 and Voskr 27 and the Triodion Cycle in the Liturgical Praxis in Russia during the Studite Period
SFRH/BD/16486/2004
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/03/01 - 2026/02/28 Ecos do passado: Revelando uma paisagem sonora perdida por meio de análise digital
2022.01957.PTDC
10.54499/2022.01957.PTDC
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2015 - 2018 projeto estratégico do CESEM
UID/EAT/00693/2013
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Poliakova, Svetlana Yurievna. "On The Establishment Of The Limits Of The Process Of Assimilation Of Byzantine Chant In Russia: A Question Of National Styles". In Eastern Christian Studies, 111-148. Leuven, Paris, Bristol, Belgium: A.A. Bredius Foundation Peeters, 2022.
    Published
  2. "The commemorations of the Prodigal Son in the Oldest Russian Neumatic Sticheraria: testifying to the assimilation of Byzantine chant". In Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade, Audust 22-27, 2016. 2022.
    In press
  3. "Izuchenie grecheskoi rukopisnoi Triodi: obzor i novye metodologii (Research on Greek Triodia manuscripts: An Overview and New Methodologies)". In Drevnerusskoie pesnopenie. Puti vo vremeni. Novyie napravlenia v sovremennoi muzykal´noi medievistike(Saint-Petersburg), 142-154. St. Peterburg, Russia: S. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory Press, 2021.
    Published
  4. "Pravoslavnoie penie v obrazovatel´nom protzesse: Novyi Universitet Lissabona, Portugaliya.". In Rojdestvemskiye besedy o dukhovnoi muzyke. Sbornik statei po materialam XXIX Mejdunarodnykh Rojdestvenskikh obrazovatel´nykh chtenii 2021 goda, 196-200. Moscow, Russia: Moscow Lomonosov University Press, 2021.
    Published
  5. Poliakova, Svetlana. "Again on the beginning of church singing in Russia: the time and ways of introducing notation". In The Anthology of the articles on the XXVI International Congress "Rojdestvinskie readings, 16-28. Moscovo, Russia: Moscow Lomonosov University Press, 2020.
    Published
  6. Poliakova, Svetlana. "The stichera for the Saturday of St. Theodore: on the formation of the sequence in the Old Russian Chant sources". In Drevnerusskoi pesnopenie. Puti vovremeni, 41-60. St. Peterburg, 2019.
    Published
  7. Poliakova, Svetlana. "Russian Liturgical Chant Books from the 11th-14th Centuries and Their Function in Liturgical Practice". In Medieval Sacred Chant: from Japan to Portugal. Canto sacro medieval: do Japão a Portugal, 93-111. Lisboa, Portugal, 2008.
    Published
  8. "O nekotorykh osobennostiakh v kopmozitzii kanonov 8 glasa I ikh otrajenii v znamennykh rukopisiakh 12 veka (Some compositional particularities of the canones of the 8th tone and its reflection in the 12th century znamenny manuscripts)". In Drevnerusskoi pesnopenie. Puti vovremeni, 17-41. St. Peterburg, Russia: S. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory Press, 2008.
    Published
  9. "Some observations on canon organization, evidence from the twelfth centurty Russian Menaia and Triodion". In Istorija i misterija muzike, u chast Roksande Pejovih, 91-107. Beçgrade, Serbia, 2006.
    Published
  10. Poliakova, Svetlana. "O século XIX, nacionalismo e cosmopolitismo (A conquista de uma entidade. Glinka e a formação de um estilo nacional. O contributo de Dargomizhski. Tempos de efervescência cultural. Balakirev, o mentor do Grupo dos Cinco. Borodine, o químico músico. Mussorgski, o visionário. Rimski-Korsakov, o elo entre duas gerações. Tchaikovski, o universal)". In Música Russa. Um Panorama, 9-31. Lisboa, Portugal, 2002.
    Published
  11. Poliakova, Svetlana. "Scriabin e Rachmaninov: as duas faces da beleza (O simbolismo russo. Skriabine e o "mistério". Rachmaninov, o poeta da alma russa)". In Música Russa. Um Panorama, 31-41. Lisboa, Portugal: Público, Centro Cultural de Belem, 2002.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Poliakova, Svetlana Yurievna. "The Lenten Hymnography: In Search of Parallels to Old Russia Sticheraria". Paper presented in IMS Cantus Planus Study Group Conference 2024, Gödöllo, 2024.
    Published
  2. Poliakova, Svetlana Yurievna. "The stichera of the Saturday of Saint Theodore in the oldest Russian Sticheraria: at the Crossroads of Traditions". Paper presented in The Tenth International Conference on Orthodox Church Music “O Taste and See that the Lord is Good: Church Music, Food, and Nourishment, Joensuu, 2023.
    Published
  3. "The commemorations of the Prodigal Son in the Oldest Russian Neumatic Sticheraria". Paper presented in 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrado, 2016.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. "Orthodox Chant in Portugal today: Project presentation. I Introduction. Orthodoxy in Portugal. The scope of the project". Paper presented in Eighth International Conference on Orthodox Church Music: The Sounds of the Holy: From Manuscript to Performancec, Joensuu, 2019.
    Published
  2. "The Classification of Russian Sticheraria: A Preliminary Case Study". Paper presented in Seventeenth Meeting of the IMS Study Group `Cantus Planus, Veneza, 2014.
    Published
  3. "A Pair of Manuscripts transmitting the Triodion and Pentekostarion in the Russian Studite Tradition - Identifying the prototypes". Paper presented in Sixteenth Meeting of the IMS Study Group `Cantus Planus`, Viena, 2011.
    Published
  4. "The Manuscripts Sin 319 and Voskr 27: Innovation in Russian Liturgical Practice at the End of the Twelfth Century". Paper presented in 14th Meeting of the IMS Study Group 'Cantus Planus', Dobogoko, 2009.
    Published
  5. "Sin 319 and Voskr 27 as a Triodion set. Questions concerning the content of the commemorations and the counting system in the Triodion Cycle". Paper presented in Church, State and Nation in Orthodox Church Music. The Third International Conference on Ortodox Church Music (University of Joensuu and The International Society for Ortodox Church Music),, Joensuu, 2009.
    Published
  6. "Sin 319 and Voskr 27 as a Triodion set. Questions concerning the composition and disposition of daily hymnography". Paper presented in Second International Conference on Ortodox Church Music (University of Joensuu and The International Society for Ortodox Church Music), Joensuu, 2007.
    Published
  7. "Certain compositional characteristics in the Heirmos of the 8th tone, based on Russian sources from the 12th-17th centuries". Paper presented in The Traditions of Orthodox Music. First International Conference on Ortodox Church Music, Joensuu, 2005.
    Published
Dictionary entry
  1. Poliakova, Svetlana. "Russian Hymnology". In The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnody ed. J. R. Watson, E. Hornby, 2013. http://www.hymnology.co.uk/.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Poliakova, Svetlana. "Russkaia Triod´: na perekrestke traditzii". Medieval Bulgarian Literature 51 (2015): 39-53.
  2. Poliakova, Svetlana. "Oldest Russian Sticheraria from the Triodion: Some Remarks on Their Homogeneity and Diversity". Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia, nova série 2/1 (2015): 1-18. http://rpm-ns.pt/index.php/rpm/article/view/264/313.
    Open access • Published
  3. Poliakova, Svetlana. "Italo-Greek and Russian Neumatic Studite Triodia and Pentekostaria: Some Remarks on Their Connection". Bollettino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata III 9 (2012): 179-190.
    Published
Newsletter article
  1. "Tchaikovski, Abertura Fantasia Romeu e Julieta; Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sinfonia n.º 3 em Lá menor, op. 44", Programa de sala, concerto, Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto, direcção musical Takuo Yuasa, Casa da Música, Porto, 2017, www.casadamusica.com/pt/media/10504639/programa-de-sala-os-tchaikovski-rachmaninoff-24nov2017.pdf?lang=pt.
  2. "Beethoven, Abertura Leonora n.º 3; Schubert, Sinfonia n.º 3 em Ré maior, D. 200; Brahms, Sinfonia n.º 3 em Fá maior, op. 90", Programa de sala do concerto, Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto, direcção musical de Olari Elts, Casa da Música, Porto , 2017, https://www.casadamusica.com/pt/media/9987272/programa-de-sala-os-beethoven-brahms-schubert-02jun2017.pdf?lang=pt.
  3. "À volta do barroco. Ano Rússia", Programa de sala, concerto, Ciclo Ano Rússia, Coro Casa da Música, Paul Hillier, Porto, 2016, https://www.casadamusica.com/pt/media/9411692/programa-de-sala-ccm-bortniansky-titov-sarti-schnittke-13nov2016.pdf?lang=pt.
  4. "Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vésperas, op. 37", Programa de sala, concerto, ciclo Ano Rússia, Coro Casa da Música, Paul Hillier, Porto, 2016, https://www.casadamusica.com/pt/media/8233587/programa-de-sala-ccm-rachmaninoff-vesperas-17jan2016.pdf?lang=pt.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Sin 319 and Voskr 27 and the Triodion Cycle in the Liturgical Praxis in Russia during the Studite Period". PhD, 2009.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/07/31 The Lenten Hymnography: In Search of Parallels to Old Russia Sticheraria IMS Cantus Planus Study Group Conference 2024
IMS Cantus Planus Study Group (Gödöllo, Hungary)
2024/07/18 Ivan Moody and the CESEM Project Christian Orthodox Chant in Portugal “In memory of Ivan Moody – composer, conductor, musicologist”: Third International Conference within the scope of the “Christian Orthodox Chant in Portugal” Project (coordination by Ivan Moody and Svetlana Poliakova, CESEM), with the collaboration of the ZêzereArts.
CESEM, ZêzereArts (Tomar, Portugal)
2023/07/06 "On the singing in Orthodox Churches in Lisbon" Sounds of the East in the West of Europe: Tracing the Paths of Orthodox Church Music in Portugal. : Second International Conference within the scope of the “Christian Orthodox Chant in Portugal” Project (coordination by Ivan Moody and Svetlana Poliakova, CESEM)
CESEM (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/06 The stichera of the Saturday of Saint Theodore in the oldest Russian Sticheraria: at the Crossroads of Traditions The Tenth International Conference on Orthodox Church Music “O Taste and See that the Lord is Good: Church Music, Food, and Nourishment
International Society for Orthodox Church Music. University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu, Finland)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/07/18 - 2024/07/18 “In memory of Ivan Moody – composer, conductor, musicologist”: Third International Conference within the scope of the “Christian Orthodox Chant in Portugal” Project (coordination by Ivan Moody and Svetlana Poliakova, CESEM), with the collaboration of the ZêzereArts. (2024/07/18 - 2024/07/18)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
2024/06/02 - 2024/06/02 CANTOS CRISTÃOS DO LESTE EM MEMÓRIA DE IVAN MOODY. Recital do Coro Académico Romanos Melodos e do Coro de Câmara Pravoslava (Direcção artística Svetlana Poliakova). (2024/06/02 - 2024/06/02)
Concert (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/07/06 - 2023/07/06 Sounds of the East in the West of Europe: Tracing the Paths of Orthodox Church Music in Portugal. : Second International Conference within the scope of the “Christian Orthodox Chant in Portugal” Project (coordination by Ivan Moody and Svetlana Poliakova, CESEM) (2023/07/06 - 2023/07/06)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
2023/06/02 - 2023/06/02 Concerto coral Canto sacro nas igrejas do Leste, por alunos da disciplina Práticas Musicais: Músicas no Mundo. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, FCSH (2023/06/02 - 2023/06/02)
Concert (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2022/06/28 - 2022/06/28 "O Português – língua cristã ortodoxa”. First International Conference within the scope of the “Christian Orthodox Chant in Portugal” Project (coordination by Ivan Moody and Svetlana Poliakova, CESEM) (2022/06/28 - 2022/06/28)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
2022/06/14 - 2022/06/14 Concerto final das disciplinas da licenciatura Prática Musical. Músicas do Mundo e Baixo Contínuo e Acompanhamento. FCSH (2022/06/14 - 2022/06/14)
Concert (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022 - 2024 Análise e Teoria Musical - de 1600 a 1750 Ciências Musicais (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2012 - 2024 Formação musical Ciências Musicais (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2011/09 - 2024 Prácticas musicais: músicas no mundo Ciências Musicais (Doutoramento) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2009/09 - 2022 Baixo contínuo e acompanhamento Ciências Musicais (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2009 - 2019 Técnicas de composição Ciências Musicais (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2013 - 2014 Análise e Teoria Musical - de 800 a 1300 Ciências Musicais (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal