Marina Frolova-Walker

Marina Frolova-Walker is a music scholar, critic, and broadcaster. She is Professor of Music History at the University of Cambridge. Author of monographs: Russian Music and Nationalism from Glinka to Stalin (Yale, 2007); Stalin’s Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics (Yale, 2016); co-author (with Jonathan Walker) of Music and Soviet Power, 1917-32 (Boydell, 2012) and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 (Oxford, 2024). Editor of Rimsky-Korsakov and His World (Princeton, 2018), co-editor (with Patrick Zuk) of Russian Music after 1917: Reappraisal and Rediscovery (Oxford, 2017). Fellow of the British Academy (2014). Awarded the Dent Medal for “outstanding contribution to musicology” (2015). Corresponding Member of the American Musicological Society (2023). Professor of Music at Gresham College, London (2018-23). The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident (2025). Regular contributor to BBC Radio 3 and reviewer for Gramophone magazine.