About our writers…
Gregor Tassie was born in Bristol in 1953 and studied at the University of Glasgow and with the Scottish composer John Maxwell Geddes. A writer and specialist in Russian music, he contributes regularly to Musical Opinion, Seen and Heard International, and Classical Source.
He is the author of Yevgeny Mravinsky: The Noble Conductor (Scarecrow Press, 2005), Kirill Kondrashin: His Life in Music (Scarecrow Press, 2010), Nikolay Myaskovsky: The Conscience of Russian Music (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), and The Three Apostles of Russian Music: The Soviet Avant-Garde (Lexington Books, 2022).
Tassie has also worked as a consultant for BBC Radio 3 and on the television documentary Mravinsky: Soviet Conductor, Russian Aristocrat, broadcast on BBC Four in 2003.
He is currently working on a monograph devoted to the Russian composer Sergei Taneyev, a pupil of Tchaikovsky and an influential teacher whose students included Rachmaninov and Scriabin.
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